Shock winner distressed by phone vote debacle
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
X Factor winner Leon Jackson has spoken out about the talent show phone lines furore.
More than 1,100 viewers have now complained to TV watchdog Ofcom that they couldn't get through to vote for runner-up Rhydian Roberts.
'You can never know the truth,' says Leon.
'Talk of votes being rigged is very upsetting. I don't know if they were. The voting is out of your hands.'
Leon, 18 – who has not had a chance to speak to Rhydian since Saturday's final – says the slurs have made him more determined to succeed.
'It's put more pressure on me to work even harder now,' he tells the Daily Star.
'I want to make Scotland proud, and take the criticism with a pinch of salt.'
Leon's mum Wendy says lots of callers weren't able to vote for her boy either.
'I had one person tell me they had tried 300 times to get through,' she told a Scottish radio station, 'so it's not just the Welsh folk who had trouble'.
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