Alexandra Burke speaks out about racism she suffered on X Factor and Strictly

[Headie]

RlFaIOfySvo

So shocking to hear some of the stuff she's been through, including being told to bleach her skin :eyes: And it's very clear that the trash journalist she's talking about is D*n W**tt*n smh.

[Barry.]

RlFaIOfySvo

So shocking to hear some of the stuff she's been through, including being told to bleach her skin :eyes: And it's very clear that the trash journalist she's talking about is D*n W**tt*n smh.

Dan is trash. I loved Alexandra in the bodyguard. I'm shocked she got bad treatment since she won it.

[Marsh.]

Dan is trash. I loved Alexandra in the bodyguard. I'm shocked she got bad treatment since she won it.

She doesn't really discuss bad treatment on the X factor (bar Louis saying he doesn't want 2 black artists or something) it was mostly once she entered the industry.

[Amy Jade]

Dan Wootton is utter scum, he tried to destroy Alex on Strictly and it was literally the at the same time her mother passed away.

[Liam-]

Dan Wooton is evil

[Oliver_W]

wtf? I thought this was gonna be another moaning about nothing "they portrayed me as angry" thing, but who the hell tells someone to bleach their skin?

[Daniel-X]

Dan Wootton is scum of the earth. So sad to hear of all these experiences wtf :sad:

[Marsh.]

wtf? I thought this was gonna be another moaning about nothing

I think you have that covered.

[Daniel-X]

Strictly and the BBC were ****ing ****ty too for not offering her any support when she was grieving/facing all that horrible trolling. Ffs when will reality shows start looking after their contestants.

[Nicky91]

Dan Wootton is scum of the earth. So sad to hear of all these experiences wtf :sad:

+1

but in all fairness, in the world of gossip tabloids you got attention seeking, media hungry leeches like this Wootton

here in Netherlands you got Angela de Jong, who is overall disliked by all of our celebs, whom also writes very bad things about many celebs in her column

[Oliver_W]

Some of the other things she talked about - not being allowed to have certain hair or release certain songs - aren't really unusual; I can't imagine One Direction would have been allowed to have shaved heads or mohawks, or release death metal music :laugh:

[Mystic Mock]

Some of the other things she talked about - not being allowed to have certain hair or release certain songs - aren't really unusual; I can't imagine One Direction would have been allowed to have shaved heads or mohawks, or release death metal music :laugh:

What a way to sell the Fantasy version of One Direction to me.:dance:

The Story Of My Life Death Metal style would be epic.

[Oliver_W]

What a way to sell the Fantasy version of One Direction to me.:dance:

The Story Of My Life Death Metal style would be epic.

:joker: I listen to it

[Marsh.]

Some of the other things she talked about - not being allowed to have certain hair or release certain songs - aren't really unusual; I can't imagine One Direction would have been allowed to have shaved heads or mohawks, or release death metal music :laugh:

Erm, no. It is different when she's told not to do it because she would be "too black for white people". :facepalm:

[Oliver_W]

Erm, no. It is different when she's told not to do it because she would be "too black for white people". :facepalm:

If 1D did what I said, they'd be too "hardcore" for their teen girl audience :shrug: X Factor winners are middle of the road and generic, and that's how they wanted her.

[Tom4784]

Oliver, there's a bit of a difference between changing your music styles to appeal to an audience and being asked to 'tone down' (The **** that even means) your race to appeal to white people.

[Cherie]

she won, so the white people didn't find her too black then?

[Tom4784]

The producers took issue with her race and tried to 'tone down her blackness'. That's discrimination and racism. It's nothing to do with her winning or losing, it was just the excuse the producers used to discriminate.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Awful woman

[Marsh.]

If 1D did what I said, they'd be too "hardcore" for their teen girl audience :shrug: X Factor winners are middle of the road and generic, and that's how they wanted her.

You're inventing things now.

She was told to tone down her "blackness" so as to not put off racist white folk. Nothing to do with music styles.

[caprimint]

Awful woman
:skull:

[Oliver_W]

:skull:

She kind of is :laugh: doesn't mean she deserves racism, but being victimised by a crappy industry doesn't make her a better person.

[Liam-]

Why is she a bad person?

[Strictly Jake]

I have always really liked her

[Marsh.]

Never really been a fan of her myself but it's not really the point in the thread. If that is literally the only contribution you have to the topic of the thread - she's awful - then why bother.

[sleleen]

she won, so the white people didn't find her too black then?

the ‘but alexandra burke won so the public cant be racist’ etc is invalid when its more about all the awful articles and microagressions she had to deal with

[rusticgal]

she won, so the white people didn't find her too black then?


Well that just about says it all...

[Headie]

She lost Strictly when she’s arguably the best contestant they’ve ever had on that show so that says it all really :whistle:

[sleleen]

She lost Strictly when she’s arguably the best contestant they’ve ever had on that show so that says it all really :whistle:

100% the best contestant the show has ever had

[Liam-]

She lost Strictly when she’s arguably the best contestant they’ve ever had on that show so that says it all really :whistle:

She was sabotaged by Wooton and the racists

[Liam-]

She’s such a talented woman, I saw her in The Bodyguard and she was phenomenal, seemed like a lovely woman as well

[rusticgal]

She lost Strictly when she’s arguably the best contestant they’ve ever had on that show so that says it all really :whistle:


I think it was her behaviour that pissed people off....she was good and she knew it but week in and week out with all the praise she got was met with fake disbelief...it was nauseating.
How can you win X Factor then not win SCD and blame it on the colour of her skin :shrug:....you can’t use it just when it suits you.

[Marsh.]

I think it was her behaviour that pissed people off....she was good and she knew it but week in and week out with all the praise she got was met with fake disbelief...it was nauseating.
How can you win X Factor then not win SCD and blame it on the colour of her skin :shrug:....you can’t use it just when it suits you.

She hasn't blamed not winning on the colour of her skin.

Did you watch the video?

Edit- Oh you meant Hayden. :hee:

[Liam-]

What ‘behaviour’ pissed people off?

[rusticgal]

She hasn't blamed not winning on the colour of her skin.

Did you watch the video?

Edit- Oh you meant Hayden. :hee:


Hayden did..

[rusticgal]

What ‘behaviour’ pissed people off?


I just told you...

[Marsh.]

I always found her OTT interviews and stuff kind of nauseating as she seemed so disingenuous.

But I don't think that's very relevant to this video tbh.

[Moniqua]

imagine watching that video and still not showing any signs of empathy afterwords :skull:

the gbp is extremely racist, this we know to be true...

[rusticgal]

I always found her OTT interviews and stuff kind of nauseating as she seemed so disingenuous.

But I don't think that's very relevant to this video tbh.


I wasn’t referring to the video...I responded to other comments.

[Headie]

Hayden did..

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/IncompatibleGleamingAngelwingmussel-size_restricted.gif

[DouglasS]

She always seemed fake to me, and mike rusticgal has said she won arguably the most competitive series of X factor - you can’t pick and choose certain battles

[Crimson Dynamo]

She is as thick as mince and had zero charisma

The GBP said

No thanks luv

Hence why she flopped and is trying to stay relevant by jumping on the bandwagon

[Marsh.]

She is as thick as mince and had zero charisma

The GBP said

No thanks luv

Hence why she flopped and is trying to stay relevant by jumping on the bandwagon

Not relevant to a video you haven't even watched.

Being asked to bleach her skin and being hounded by Dan Wootton has absolutely nothing to do with "flopping".

[bbcanicons]

I can understand how racism could've manufactured itself in the way that both XF and Strictly are produced, and this is sadly the terrible reality of the treatment of several POC (more notably on XF). I'm not speaking for how she is/may be as a person, as I haven't really followed her post-XF, yet no matter how 'fake' she is/people perceive her to be, there is no denying in the fact that her experiences with racism on both shows, which she outlined on her live, should never have happened in the first place, regardless of the opinion of the GBP.

[Gstar]

Never really been a fan of her myself but it's not really the point in the thread. If that is literally the only contribution you have to the topic of the thread - she's awful - then why bother.

They’re just trolling at this point

[Mystic Mock]

She always seemed fake to me, and mike rusticgal has said she won arguably the most competitive series of X factor - you can’t pick and choose certain battles

Tbf I don't think that Alexandra is talking about winning these Shows or not.

[Swan]

imagine watching that video and still not showing any signs of empathy afterwords :skull:

the gbp is extremely racist, this we know to be true...

Oh ffs, educate yourself, no they're not. People like you are desperate to find racism everywhere, yet the normal people's primary goal is equality and to be done with racism (it will always exist to a certain extent, from ALL races). Yet all you do point the finger and scream racism at every turn when 90% it's not even there.

Idiots like you are holding actual progression back. Would be humours if it was so tragically ironic!