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Originally Posted by jet

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.

Yes, he just isn't that likable, and that's precisely why people believe these stories and add the 'truth' to the stories in their minds. I don't doubt that the places of work, jobs and people are real - but are you telling me you wouldn't invent a story for easy cash if they made it out like there weren't going to be any consequences? Half the time the papers just outright make stuff up and then publish apologies later, also to fill up the pages. They have to fill up the pages with SOMETHING every day - and making up a lie and then publishing an apology fills up space for two days. Yeah, the other judges, contestants and other people don't like him - but that doesn't suddenly make tabloid stories about him true. Tabloid stories will be fuelling why other people don't like him, they don't know him personally! They find these people because they know where their contestants have come from. How do the papers find ex boyfriends and girlfriends of famous people? They snoop. These people don't all flock to newspaper headquarters to tell them stories, often they are sought out for information that, if they don't share it, is often just made up anyway.

Let's be honest - Tulisa openly disdains the guy. That just opens the flood gates for other people to do it too. What would you say if these stories suddenly appeared about Jahmene? I bet you'd say they couldn't possibly be true because he seems like a nice, timid person. You're right, he does seem like a nice, timid person, but we can't apply truth to assumptions based on what an edited television program lets us see. It works both ways. Just because someone seems fake, doesn't mean they are, and it certainly doesn't mean they are violent criminals!