Gary Barlow: I’ll quit X Factor if it happens again
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FUMING Gary Barlow has threatened to quit X Factor if a similar shambles to Sunday’s deadlock drama ever happens again.
The Take That singer, 41, summoned host Dermot O’Leary and show chiefs to an emergency meeting to discuss his ultimatum last night.
The head judge is said to want to “put a stop to tricks” and end “pantomime” on the show.
Barlow is on the warpath after Louis Walsh appeared to take guidance from ITV supremo Richard Holloway in Sunday’s live show.
Louis, 60, bottled the obvious decision to send Rylan Clark home — and left it to a phone vote which cruelly ended angel-voiced Carolynne Poole’s hopes.
48 hours after walking off in protest at Rylan’s stay of execution — Barlow met ITV boss Elaine Beddell and X Factor executive producers O’Leary and Holloway for showdown talks.
Show bosses had been under the impression that Gary would walk off the show. But The Sun can reveal he will return this weekend — on the condition that his demands are met.
An X Factor source said: “Gary is fiercely proud of his reputation and signed up for the show because he wanted to nurture genuine talent. The reason he wanted to be on it was to put a stop to these tricks and to stop insulting the artists and viewers.
“The pantomime some of his fellow judges bring to the show drives him insane and he believes it undermines the credibility of the whole show. Sunday’s antics infuriated him. He was livid.
“He called a dinner for last night and issued an ultimatum — if this ever happens again he is off. No questions asked.
“Gary is demanding that genuine talent should always be recognised ahead of pantomime acts like Rylan who might pull in a few more phone votes for the novelty factor.”
Holloway defended his role in the debacle in yesterday’s Sun. He said: “We never tell judges what to do.”
On Monday Gary tweeted: “Been hard to get motivated today.” He wished Carolynne good luck for the future.
What rubbish, he's binded by a contract and he won't leave, he's all talk.
Though what happened on the live shows was ****ery. Louis wanted to save Carolynne and even said it but Dermot/Producers FORCED him to go w/ deadlock. It was just a staged mess that you could see.
First the whisper, then Dermot not taking his first answer and forcing him to change his mind, then louis saying he HAD to do it and telling Tulisa/Nicole why.
MessMessMess
