Shocking crimes of X Factor stars…knife-wielding past, fleecing legend & car thief arrested after victim saw audition 

IT'S a amusement with nary shortage of crimes against euphony - but immoderate X Factor stars person fallen foul of the instrumentality for each sorts of atrocious behaviour.

From defrauding a sporting legend to being reported to police aft getting spotted successful the auditions by their victim, present we look astatine the wannabe popstars who recovered themselves successful beforehand of a judge… conscionable not the 1 they were hoping for.

Rachel Hylton

Season 5 finalist Rachel Hylton, below, is presently connected the tally from constabulary aft failing to look successful tribunal implicit cause charges. 

Back successful 2008 Rachel, past aged 26, wowed the judges with a beauteous rendition of Amy Winehouse’s You Know I’m No Good astatine her audition.

Under mentor Dannii Minogue she made it arsenic acold arsenic week 7 of the unrecorded episodes, earlier losing successful a sing-off against JLS successful the bid yet won by Alexandra Burke.

But aft being charged with possessing cannabis resin astatine Crawley Police Station connected October 13, the 42-year-old mum-of-five was a no-show successful tribunal and present has a warrant for her arrest. 

Aidan Martin

After making it to the footwear campy signifier of the bid successful 2017, then-27-year-old hopeful Aidan Martin revealed a past blighted by cocaine addiction and an apprehension for recognition paper fraud.

Seven years earlier his quality connected bid 14, Aidan got nicked aft stealing rugby fable Lawrence Dallaglio’s card and spending £43 successful a West End restaurant. 

He adjacent ended up disowned by his household and kicked retired of his accommodation aft falling successful with the incorrect assemblage and utilizing excessive amounts of cocaine and weed.

However, judges and viewers were blown distant by his almighty ballads, and contempt being kicked retired astatine the judge’s houses stage, has present enactment his past down him and has built a vocation arsenic a singer-songwriter.

Paige Flaherty

Wannabe Paige Flaherty’s changeable astatine fame backmost successful 2013 backfired aft a pedestrian she’d antecedently mowed down watched her TV audition.

The endowment amusement flop, past 19, stole a car successful Jarrow, Tyneside, earlier colliding with a pedestrian and giving mendacious details.

But her unfortunate got the past laughter erstwhile Paige auditioned for The X Factor arsenic portion of her miss set Twisted.

Since then, she's been successful and retired of tribunal for offences that see stealing her mum’s cancer-stricken friend’s slope details to bargain a telephone and nicking her bandmate’s Fiat 500. 

Simone Reed

Reality prima Simone Reed, from Teesside, made it to the 3rd circular of the unrecorded shows backmost successful 2014 but ended up getting kicked disconnected aft producers recovered retired astir her transgression past.

Simone, past 20, was locked up for six months backmost successful 2009 for her engagement successful a brawl astatine a bid presumption during which she headbutted a 51-year-old pistillate and “laid into” a 29-year-old man.

She besides made headlines successful 2014 erstwhile a video of her stripping down to her underwear successful a occupation for a Neknominate situation - an online drinking crippled - astatine a occupation centre went viral.

After a two-week stint connected Big Brother successful 2017, she’s since ended up successful the dock again, receiving a condemnation successful 2019 for selling untaxed cigs and baccy implicit Facebook Marketplace.

Danny Tetley

Series 15 semi-finalist Danny Tetley wowed audiences and adjacent made it each the mode to the semi-final - but has since been jailed for 9 years aft committing a bid of shocking enactment offences against teenage boys.

The singer, from Bradford, had enjoyed a comparatively precocious illustration aft his occurrence connected the amusement and adjacent appeared connected the amusement Benidorm.

But a justice described the 39-year-old arsenic a “despicable creature” aft helium admitted to 7 charges of causing intersexual exploitation of boys aged betwixt 14 and 16.

The paedophile had spent thousands grooming the teenagers and made them execute intersexual acts, lone being caught aft 1 of the boy’s parents recovered graphic images connected his phone.

Sian Phillips

Liverpudlian Sian Phillips was conscionable 24 erstwhile she got to the judges’ houses signifier of the contention backmost successful 2011, lone to beryllium softly removed from the amusement aft transgression past came to light.

Sian was invited to question to Miami to audition astatine justice Kelly Rowland’s house but was forced to driblet retired of the amusement erstwhile her US visa exertion was refused.

Shortly before, it emerged she had served 10 days of a two-month jailhouse condemnation for being progressive successful a combat backmost successful 2009.

The incidental occurred aft a nighttime retired successful Liverpool backmost erstwhile Sian was 22. She has since credited the apprehension with helping her to get her beingness backmost connected track.

Curtis Moore

Superstar wannabe Curtis Moore from Walsall was conscionable 16 years aged erstwhile helium wowed Simon Cowell astatine the show’s Birmingham auditions, backmost successful 2009.

But aft photos emerged connected societal media showing the teen brandishing a knife, Curtis was softly removed from the bid owed to the atrocious publicity surrounding his violent past.

He besides admitted to being drawn into a beingness of crime aft the decease of his brother, but has since turned his beingness astir with the assistance of his foster family.

In 2011, 2 years aft his quality connected The X Factor, helium released a debut azygous and donated its proceeds to a Birmingham-based charity to assistance disadvantaged kids. 

Derry Mensah

R&B vocalist and wannabe superstar Derry Mensah appeared connected the amusement backmost successful 2011.

But the 20-year-old from Croydon confessed helium had been mixed up successful gangs erstwhile increasing up and had adjacent been arrested for robbing a antheral of his telephone and ticker adjacent Clapham Junction.

After admitting the complaint Derry was sentenced to 18 months but was released successful 2009 aft his condemnation was halved for bully behaviour.

The acquisition helped crook his beingness astir and helium continues to marque euphony to this day.