Red Moon
26-09-2007, 07:09 AM
X FACTOR BEAUT'S RACE HATE SHAMETOP show The X Factor has been hit by a sensational racism row.
Finalist Sisi Jghalef has been axed by telly bosses over her race-hate secret.
The Moroccan-born singer was found guilty of calling a black man “an African BooBoo” and was ordered to do 200 hours community service.
But bosses found she had failed to complete the order in time and could face re-arrest, so they booted her out.
The furious singer, best pals with Big Brother star Charley Uchea, 22, last night protested her innocence.
She blasted: “I’ve been treated like dirt. I was upfront about my past and now they’ve kicked me in the teeth.”
Sisi, 22, from London, was seen on last weekend’s show being sent to boot camp with judges singing her praises.
This Saturday viewers will see judge Simon Cowell, 47, suggest she teams up with five other girls. She ends up as part of a new girlband called Hope.
Simon, who is mentoring the groups this year, thinks they could be the new Spice Girls or Pussycat Dolls.
But Sisi was called to a meeting last week where bosses of the ITV show told her she was axed.
They discovered that last year she was in court charged with using racially threatening, insulting and abusive language. She was found guilty given three months’ “tagging” and told to complete 200 hours community service.
But show chiefs found out Sisi had not done the community service.
They pointed out that now she was a finalist there was no way she could carry out the court order.
Last night a distraught Sisi maintained that she had been completely “open and honest”.
And she added: “I am Moroccan and I have lots of black friends so it’s a nonsense to call me racist.”
A show spokesman said: “In recent weeks it has become clear that Sisi had failed to complete her community service relating to a specific charge, which left her in breach of a court order.
“As a result, this breaks a fundamental rule of the competition.
“We were left with no choice but for Sisi to exit The X Factor.”
Source: Daily Star (http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/16409/X-FACTOR-BEAUT-S-RACE-HATE-SHAME/)
Finalist Sisi Jghalef has been axed by telly bosses over her race-hate secret.
The Moroccan-born singer was found guilty of calling a black man “an African BooBoo” and was ordered to do 200 hours community service.
But bosses found she had failed to complete the order in time and could face re-arrest, so they booted her out.
The furious singer, best pals with Big Brother star Charley Uchea, 22, last night protested her innocence.
She blasted: “I’ve been treated like dirt. I was upfront about my past and now they’ve kicked me in the teeth.”
Sisi, 22, from London, was seen on last weekend’s show being sent to boot camp with judges singing her praises.
This Saturday viewers will see judge Simon Cowell, 47, suggest she teams up with five other girls. She ends up as part of a new girlband called Hope.
Simon, who is mentoring the groups this year, thinks they could be the new Spice Girls or Pussycat Dolls.
But Sisi was called to a meeting last week where bosses of the ITV show told her she was axed.
They discovered that last year she was in court charged with using racially threatening, insulting and abusive language. She was found guilty given three months’ “tagging” and told to complete 200 hours community service.
But show chiefs found out Sisi had not done the community service.
They pointed out that now she was a finalist there was no way she could carry out the court order.
Last night a distraught Sisi maintained that she had been completely “open and honest”.
And she added: “I am Moroccan and I have lots of black friends so it’s a nonsense to call me racist.”
A show spokesman said: “In recent weeks it has become clear that Sisi had failed to complete her community service relating to a specific charge, which left her in breach of a court order.
“As a result, this breaks a fundamental rule of the competition.
“We were left with no choice but for Sisi to exit The X Factor.”
Source: Daily Star (http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/16409/X-FACTOR-BEAUT-S-RACE-HATE-SHAME/)