WHEN The Delivery moved to ITV, some thought its competitiveness with SIMON COWELL’s X Influence might subside.
But it has actually had the verso effect.
Things are now so tense betwixt the warring shows that Apostle has banned hopefuls from melodious And I Am Telling You — one of the best-known number by Voice coach JENNIFER Naturalist.
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Jennifer in fact won an Oscar for her part in Dreamgirls, the movie in which made the song noted
At an X Factor audition in Manchester this workweek he stopped one girl part way over her version of it, telling her it was “too intemperately linked to another show”.
A root said: “X Factor and The Voice may both be on ITV now, but Apostle still wants to be the best display and there’s real rivalry thither.
“This one girl tried to chant And I Am Telling You, which Jennifer herb in Dreamgirls, but Simon stopped her straightaway and told her to sing something added.
“He did let her try another three railroad so it’s not like he shot her down thither and then.”
The incident isn’t this workweek’s only last-minute moderate at auditions.
Yesterday, for the second era in a week, producers had to call on ALESHA DIXON to jet up to Capital to fill in for ailing judge SHARON OSBOURNE astern she had to pull out due to illness.
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Simon allowed the objector to choose any other song abaft interrupting her version of ‘And I Am Effective You’
An X Factor spokeswoman said at the end night: “Unfortunately Sharon is excruciation from niggling back predicament following surgery earlier in the yr and will be unable to take component in the Edinburgh auditions. Alesha faculty be guest judging.”
It comes dependable days after she filled in for NICOLE SCHERZINGER, who was reduplicate-booked for a BLACK EYED PEAS gig in Azerbajdzhan.
Now Alesha just needs Prizefighter WALSH to pull a sickie and she’s got herself a hat stratagem.
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