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Originally Posted by Zee

As much as I dislike him, this reminds me SO much of Popstars: The Rivals in the week leading to the girls final when the papers suddenly started running stories that Kimberley Walsh was a diva backstage when she's quite blatantly one of the most normal celebrities and nicest people in pop music - because the producers were starting work on post-show stuff on the assumption that Kimberley wasn't going to make it. There's an interview with Javine on YouTube which says as much, she has a copy of Sound of the Underground with her singing on it with Nadine, Cheryl, Nicola and Sarah. Bosses pay the papers to run these smear campaigns. Why would Chris sue them? It costs a lot of money to sue someone, and when you're up against a company you're fighting their collective might. It wouldn't be worth his time. I think Chris is a fake and I could easily believe these stories, but I don't believe they are true. Shame on whoever commissioned these stories, because they certainly didn't happen.

Sorry, but you can't possibly know that X Factor bosses paid a former colleague of Chris's to say that he tried to strangle her and 2 former employers of his to say that they fired him. How did they even find these people and get them all to comply? They gave real names and places of work. It sounds highly implausible rubbish to me and I can't believe you think it isn't.
And I suppose they forced James to say the stuff he did and Rylan to say he had a feud with Chris - and they gave Tulisa and Nicole special acting lessons to make sure their disdain of Chris looked genuine - and I wonder how much Louis from 1D got for his contribution...and all this happens year after year in the X Factor I presume so they get the winner they want but never comes out as everyone is too terrified to say anything. Does it really sound likely?
The simple explanation is usually the correct one - that there is some truth to the stories and he just isn't that likable.