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The singer – who was making his first public appearance since leaving the reality show – was cheered on by crowds of adoring fans when he appeared in the city to sing and turn on the The Butt’s Christmas Lights.

But after coming head-to-head with Lloyd Daniels in last weeks show, Jamie reckons he would still be in the competition if Simon, and the programme’s producers, had let him sing better songs.

During an interview with the News Of The World the afro-headed singer said that he was regularly given the wrong tunes to sing as X Factor bosses always struggled to come to terms with his identity as an act.

“You saw how well Sex On Fire by the Kings of Leon went down in my audition” Jamie explained.

“A lot of people who watch the show might not have known the song, because it’s quite edgy, and modern – but it went down brilliantly.

"But they wouldn’t let me do a similar song again. I wanted to do Mr Brightside by the Killers in the rock week but they vetoed it, saying nobody would have heard it… But that was the point – I wanted to try something that not everyone would have heard of, rather than going for the safe option.”

Um, is it just us or is Mr Brightside a pretty famous song which most of us have actually heard of? Anyway, Jamie then went on to conclude that being a “rock singer” was his ultimate downfall:

“I just don’t think they knew what to do with me because there had never been a rock singer on the show before…In the end I wasn’t miserable, but I had lost confidence up there."

Don’t blame the songs Jamie, never blame the songs! Anyway enough of that – who would you like to see getting booted off X Factor this weekend?

Unfortunately Stacey didn’t divulge any juicy morsels of gossip on the subject, moreover she actually looked slightly bemused, shrugged then went on her merry way. Shame.

Anyway one X Factor contestant who we didn’t spot leaving the shared house yesterday was Danyl Johnson who’s currently said to be at war with his mentor Simon Cowell over his song choice for Saturday’s show.

Apparently the drama teacher walked out of a rehearsal earlier this week after he was given Praying For Time to sing during the Wham! themed show.

After a brief tantrum, Cowell has now let Danyl sing Careful Whisper instead but in the process of letting him switch songs Danyl has allegedly been given a stern telling of by Simon for his “arrogant” attitude. Quite right too...

Get ready to hear some very high pitch squawking….

So anyway, the girls had just spent the evening at the premiere of Zac Efron’s new movie and when we spotted them they were desperately trying to hail a cab, but even though they wanted to head home they were more than happy to stop and answer a few questions.

Apparently producers of the programme have decided that only the final eight contestants will appear on the tour (which is said to be the most lucrative yet) including; Lucie Jones, Jamie Archer, Lloyd Daniels, John and Edward Grimes, Stacey Solomon, Danyl Johnson, Olly Murs and Joe McElderry.

That means Kandy Rain, Rikki Loney, Miss Frank and Rachel Adedeji have all been cut-out of the very profitable venture. Shame.

All the solo singers are expected to take home around £100,000 each, except for Jedward – who’ll both earn just under that amount each.

And on top of that contestants can also potentially earn between £5,000 and £20,000 each time they make a personal appearance, which means by the end of the tour they’re pretty much set up for life. *Sighs with jealously*.

Nicky Byrne, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Kian Egan joined their manager Louis Walsh at the annual ceremony.

Unfortunately for Westlife, for some unknown reason the crowd insisted on chanting Jedward during the event even though they weren’t scheduled to appear.

Meanwhile, John and Edward were allowed a brief trip home yesterday during which they met Westlife and were left totally and utterly gobsmacked when the boy band asked them for an autograph:

“John and Edward were shell-shocked when the Westlife boys asked for their autographs on the plane. Talk about a role reversal.”

After umming and ahhing for the past few days Simon Cowell has finally settled on a theme for this weeks X Factor and it’s Wham!

The final few acts will have to choose which classic 80’s track they want to sing during the inevitable cheese fest.

There’s Club Tropicana, which is a personal favourite of ours, there’s Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and of course the Wham Rap!, which has Jedward’s name written all over it.

Apparently they’ll also be given the option of doing a George Michael song so Stacey and Danyl will have to battle it out for Careless Whisper, or actually maybe Lloyd will get that, although to be honest we actually forgot he was still on the show.