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X FACTOR BOOT CAMP WAS LIKE ROMAN ORGY
Exclusive by David Jeffs and Emma Donnan
Wild sex, booze and drugs made the X Factor boot camp like a Roman orgy, a stunning contestant revealed last night.

CeCe Jghalef's revelations will shock programme bosses and the show's millions of fans.

The 22-year-old, axed from the finals last week, said: "I thought I'd seen it all - but nothing prepared me for the scenes I witnessed.

"Some contestants went wild, getting off their heads on booze and drugs. Then there was the sex. I'm no angel but I was disgusted. It was like a Roman orgy.

"Simon Cowell and the other judges didn't have a clue what was going on."

CeCe, a London-born PA, decided to speak out after learning she was off the show.


She revealed how during boot camp last August at the Heythrop Park Hotel in Enstone, Oxfordshire, some of the 250-strong group chasing stardom:


Partied all night in their rooms, snorting cocaine and bingeing on spirits and wine.


Revelled in raunchy group sex romps in the hotel pool and in woods in the grounds.


Became stoned after smoking super-strength cannabis.


CeCe stressed that most of the contestants behaved well but a hard core ran wild and made no attempt to prepare their acts.


She said: "I was rooming with a girl called Melissa.


"We were both trying to audition for the solo spots so we just used the stay to concentrate our minds. But a small bunch just wanted to get off their heads and party.


"On the first night I couldn't sleep because there was so much noise going on. It was like being in the middle of a Club 18-30 holiday.


"I walked into one bedroom intending to ask a group to keep the noise down - and they were chopping up lines of cocaine on a bedside table.


"I couldn't believe my eyes. I didn't know who the contestants were but they just beckoned me to join them. There were wine and vodka bottles, beer cans and full ash trays littering the room. It was disgusting.


"Another night I saw two guys and a girl having a threesome in the indoor pool. All three were naked and and locked in a giant embrace as the girl screamed with pleasure.


"I also saw contestants skinny dipping in the pool.


"Contestants also used to go to the nearby woods and fields to party. I heard rumours that they spent all night smoking weed and drinking.


"There was even talk that some couples were having sex. But then, what do X Factor bosses expect when they throw a bunch of strangers together?" CeCe's shocking revelations were backed up by other contestants. Aidan Salter, a 17-year-old from Newcastle who was in the under 25s category with CeCe, said: "I saw plenty of drug taking while we were there.


"On one occasion in the early hours I saw three guys sitting by the pool snorting cocaine. They looked so high they could have drowned if they fell in.


"Out the back of the hotel there was a massive field with woods, where people used to go and smoke weed. There were little areas that people hid in. You could smell it.


"I remember one night coming down to the bar and hearing some of the mums of the contestants complaining about the older boys they'd seen snorting cocaine.


"I did not actually see that myself but I did see remnants of white powder left on a table. Other people told me they had seen some older boys taking it in their rooms.


"A lot of people didn't take boot camp seriously. It was more like a huge party - which is astonishing, considering the opportunity we had been given."


Another teenager we spoke to had travelled up to the boot camp from her family home in the West Country with her mother.


She was equally shocked by the wild antics of fellow contestants.


The 15-year-old, who did not want to be named, told The People: "On the last night there was a pool party and I saw people smoking pot.


"I also saw a couple in the pool petting and kissing each other.


"My mum was disappointed by what was happening."


Her mother added: "X Factor is a family show and producers have a duty to the young people under their care. My daughter wasn't sucked into the debauched goings on because she had me to look after her. I was glad to get her out of boot camp. I think viewers need to know the reality of what is going on." CeCe also hit out at the very basic food and accommodation provided for contestants.


She said: "I was rooming with a complete stranger. We were in an annexe and had two single beds and a bathroom, which only had a shower and sink. Breakfast was a croissant or cornflakes. Lunch was normally chicken or lasagne with boiled potatoes.


"I hated the food so much I just lived on a diet of potatoes."


CeCe failed to make the live stages as a soloist and was then invited to join girl band Hope which was formed for the finals.


But she was booted out after bosses heard she was in trouble for failing to complete 200 hours of community service after being found guilty of racially threatening, insulting and abusive behaviour during a restaurant bust-up.


She said: "I know I've done wrong but I disclosed my conviction from day one. I did 100 hours but was not asked back for the other 100."


CeCe has nothing but good things to say about the X Factor judges - but reckons Simon has a soft spot for Dannii Minogue.


She said: "They were always flirting off camera and there was definitely a good chemistry between them."


Both she and Aidan still plan to pursue their showbiz dreams.


Looking back, CeCe is glad to be out of the X Factor circus.


She added: People will say I have an axe to grind but that's not true.


"X Factor is great family viewing but the reality off camera at times is very different.


"I believe the public has a right to know what goes on."


An ITV spokesman said: "We received no complaints about drug taking at boot camp and have no evidence to back up CeCe's claims. For the majority of contestants it was a positive experience. We do not condone this sort of behaviour.


"Contestants are put in a position of trust and it's extremely disappointing to think a small minority might chose to abuse this."

Source The Irish People

[Captain.Remy]

How nice lol

[cujo-man]

Oh . . . That ruins the X Factor for me.

[KKBL]

Originally posted by cujo_man
Oh . . . That ruins the X Factor for me.

same!

[Retroman]

It's disgusting considering that there are kids auditioning this year too...
Also, some of you could be supporting and being fans of people who have random sex and do drugs.

Which may not bother some, but I wouldn't like to think im liking a girl/boy who *****s themselves to complete strangers and takes drugs, whilst hoping that they win.

Obviously none of us KNOW if this is true, not unless we were there or had confessions from more reliable sources. But if it is true, im willing to bet all the "good looking" people involved do just go off somewhere and end up having sex/being drunk/doing drugs. Im not a fan of people like that, it just narrows the chances of finding someone worth hanging onto for those who are looking for more than just random sex.

[cujo-man]

I think a journalist should audition and then report on if this is true or not. Maybe bring in a video camera for next year.

[Retroman]

Originally posted by cujo_man
I think a journalist should audition and then report on if this is true or not. Maybe bring in a video camera for next year.

Agreed.
Or perhaps just someone who can sing, who is willing to do an undercover report for some decent money =]
That way nobody would recognise the journalist, it'd just be a completely random person, plus they'd be able to sing in order to refrain from causing any suspicion.

I think that would be enough to bring an end to X Factor actually, providing they found out CeCe's claims to be true.

[cujo-man]

Originally posted by Retroman

Agreed.
Or perhaps just someone who can sing, who is willing to do an undercover report for some decent money =]
That way nobody would recognise the journalist, it'd just be a completely random person, plus they'd be able to sing in order to refrain from causing any suspicion.

I think that would be enough to bring an end to X Factor actually, providing they found out CeCe's claims to be true.

Yea, that might work better actually!

Not sure I want to see the end of the X Factor though.

[Retroman]

X factor winners amount to nothing these days...
Liberty X, Gareth Gates and Will Young from previous singing talent shows are the only people to acheive a lasting fame.

Gareth is now making a comeback apparently, or at least trying to.
Liberty X I haven't heard from lately, but im sure Will Young is still pretty busy.

So yea...the entire X Factor show has amounted to nothing.
Even Leona is pretty non existant. There was an X Factor winner called Steve, anyone remember him? He barely even made it onto TV.

X Factor needs to put more effort into marketing their winners and making them a success. Instead of putting all their money into funding the next X Factor and quickly forgetting the previous winners.

Afterall, people audition to be rich and famous singers, correct?
But the winner never seems to acheive that...
They just get 15mins of fame then die.

[KKBL]

Shane Ward is currently number one so i wouldent say hes non-exsistant!