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No one seems to have mentioned that surely if he's having rehearsals then he's having them with a member of the X Factor tour production team? Otherwise he'd just have them in a task room alone, surely? Which of course begs the question - if he's in the company of somebody not associated to Endemol & C5, then regardless of whether he's being supervised by a producer or not, said outsider could easily tell him how he's doing and all the stuff that's being going on. Just because he's being supervised it doesn't mean any outside member of the public can't quickly blurt out that he's the favourite, once he knows that there's no going back...the producer can't just say 'oh sorry can you forget about that'. If somebody wants to tell him something they will - and why wouldn't they?