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Matt Terry has revealed his experience of winning the X-Factor nearly ten years ago was tainted by what he had to deal with behind the scenes.

 

Terry, 30, said he was told to tone down elements of his image while on the ITV talent show because he "looked too gay".

 

Speaking to ITV News, he said he was given "nowhere near" enough support to deal with scrutiny from the tabloid media, which appeared more interested in his sexuality than his vocal talents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited May 3, 20242 yr by Ethereal

I have always known that X factor has a toxic environment. So many contestants were humiliated for no reason. They can't sing? Well on any other normal show judges would just tell smtng like "sweetie, it wasn't good, get more practice and come back next time" but on XF you will get bullied and laughed at by judges, audience, and all you gonna hear is mockery behind you back when you getting out of stage. Imagine what kind of emotional stress receive contestants at that moment? And now turned out there are homophoby behind the scenes. Kuddos to this guy for speaking up, Simon Cowell needs to be dragged for this ****-show

Edited May 3, 20242 yr by TitanicSurvivor

didn't know he was a homo 

Just now, Yawn said:

didn't know he was a homo 

 

Well....

That's really sad. Even sadder that some gay men here make jokes about it. 

didnt know Ed wrote his debut single  

he looks very g indeed, so

9 minutes ago, Anthinos said:

That's really sad. Even sadder that some gay men here make jokes about it. 

Did you just find out gay men are toxic? 

31 minutes ago, Yawn said:

didn't know he was a homo 

Saara Aalto should have won that season!

That's sad honestly but wbk that X Factor was toxic. 

Some ATRLers were literally just doing this same thing this morning in another thread 

3 hours ago, Ethereal said:

nearly ten years ago

anyways

4 hours ago, TitanicSurvivor said:

I have always known that X factor has a toxic environment. So many contestants were humiliated for no reason. They can't sing? Well on any other normal show judges would just tell smtng like "sweetie, it wasn't good, get more practice and come back next time" but on XF you will get bullied and laughed at by judges, audience, and all you gonna hear is mockery behind you back when you getting out of stage. Imagine what kind of emotional stress receive contestants at that moment? And now turned out there are homophoby behind the scenes. Kuddos to this guy for speaking up, Simon Cowell needs to be dragged for this ****-show

This is why Nicole Scherzinger was the best judge on that show.

4 hours ago, TitanicSurvivor said:

I have always known that X factor has a toxic environment. So many contestants were humiliated for no reason. They can't sing? Well on any other normal show judges would just tell smtng like "sweetie, it wasn't good, get more practice and come back next time" but on XF you will get bullied and laughed at by judges, audience, and all you gonna hear is mockery behind you back when you getting out of stage. Imagine what kind of emotional stress receive contestants at that moment? And now turned out there are homophoby behind the scenes. Kuddos to this guy for speaking up, Simon Cowell needs to be dragged for this ****-show

I think many contestants have exposed how fake and manipulative the world of X Factor was, and how they would especially turn auditionees into laughing stock for the world to make fun of and hate on concurrently for ratings. That all makes it really hard watch anything related to it now.

3 hours ago, ithinkheknowsoutsold said:

I think many contestants have exposed how fake and manipulative the world of X Factor was, and how they would especially turn auditionees into laughing stock for the world to make fun of and hate on concurrently for ratings. That all makes it really hard watch anything related to it now 

Keyword: now…

 

Notice how we all used to be all for it back in the day

You can just tell what slurs he commonly got called in high-school is 

Edited May 4, 20242 yr by DeadInside

i mean...