Mary Claims X Factor Was Fixed

The recent X Factor contestant to be booted off the show was Mary from Tesco's, and she has now said the show was rigged for her to go!

The Daily Mirror reports that Mary said: "The shows a fix, of course it is. Its not the show the public think it is. I knew the public had voted for me to stay on, and I actually thought the result would be based just on their vote. It was only on Saturday I discovered that there would be a sing off where the judges decided. Its obvious Simon didn't want me in the final and I get that. I'm not as marketable to him as Cher so he was never going to put me through. They fixed it for me to lose. It didn't matter what the public think."

The sing off has always been the public vote and no judges decisions until this year - and we know how popular Cher's been - bringing in all the publicity and viewers Simon wants.

Simon Cowell has denied any reports of it being a fix, of course, saying: "We haven't done anything wrong. All the artists knew there was going to be a sing off. Mary and Cher were told last Monday to prepare a song for a sing-off if necessary."

Well...