[Amy]

Here's an article from The Daily Record
James claims last years FA was a big Fix!

EUROVISION singer James Fox claims Fame Academy 2 was fixed from the start to allow Alex Parks to win.

James, who made it to the last five on the show, claims the BBC show was in league with the Polydor label to find a left field winner.

He insists they quickly identified lesbian Alex as their favoured finalist and tweaked the show to give her the best chance of walking off with the first prize.

He said: 'The platform it has given me got me through the record company door.

'Fame Academy was a great opportunity for me, but I was disappointed by how little musical training was involved.

'There was a 40-minute singing lesson each day and the rest of the time was 23 hours of twiddling your thumbs for a Big Brother-style show.

'I don't think much of Richard Park. He and I didn't get on. His comments were obvious and not constructive. I shut off from him.

'He couldn't back his comments up and the TV show had a positive agenda to get a left-field winner.

'I was similar to David Sneddon in style and the record company was keen not to have a winner in the same mould.

'There was an agenda. They had a definite idea of who they wanted to win and that that it would appear to be a credible artist.

'The public voted, but the night I went out I was 300 votes behind Alex and Alistair, placing me third, but the teachers and students voted me out.

'In the end, it was up to the public but Fame Academy was edited to shoe-horn who they wanted into the end of the show.

' I'm sure they did that. I'm not bitter, but an example is that I didn't get to go to premieres and suchlike to increase my profile.

[BusyBee]

Sore loser or telling the truth?

I think there was manipulation in Fame Academy but then the same could be said for Pop Idol where again the judges give their views which can affect judging.

I think Alex won because she is talented and different and yes, they probably did want someone completely different from David.

But James you have your chance now so make the most of it and put the past in the past.