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Sam Callahan opens up about brutal assault on the XF tour!
 
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Sam, then 19, was left spitting blood after Rough Copy singer Kazeem Ajobe punched his jaw so hard the bone dislocated and smashed into his mouth.
He also suffered two black eyes and heavy bruising as the convicted thug grabbed him in a headlock and rained blows on his head.
Sam claims bosses at Simon Cowell’s production company Syco interrogated him about the attack before a show at Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena. The police were not called.
And just hours after chief Mark Brittain, who has worked with Cowell since 2011, promised Sam’s dad his son would be safe, thug Kazeem was able to corner him again, but there was no further harm.
“Before Kaz turned on me, I thought we were friends just joking around. All I did was flick an empty sweet wrapper at him, and he switched.
“He flew at me like an animal. His first punch, on the left side of my face, cracked my jaw so loudly the people in the next room heard it.
“The bone that attached my jaw to my ear popped out, splitting the inside of my mouth, and then he grabbed me in a headlock and pummelled my face.
“He threw seven or eight punches. All I saw was his fist flying. Then he grabbed me hard around my neck, leaving me with nasty scratches.”
Sam went on: “My mouth was full of blood, my ears were ringing and my face was black and blue.
“The pain was awful and I felt like I’d been hit by a huge truck.
“I was really shaken up. But despite what happened, I didn’t want to let Kaz win, and I was determined to perform that night.
“The next day I was taken to A&E early with a cap and sunglasses on and my coat collar pulled up so no one would recognise me.”
Sam said: “I was the one who had been beaten up and taken to hospital. All they had to do was look at my face.
“My eyes were blacked, I was bruised and my jaw was so swollen I couldn’t shut my mouth.
“The way I looked would have bothered anyone.
“At that point I kept quiet, but I felt like I couldn’t trust anyone else at Syco any longer. My dad had spoken to Syco bosses after the assault and told them how upset he was the police hadn’t been called immediately.
“But the person he spoke to was under the impression that I had been asked if I wanted the police involved, and had said no.
“They had also promised my dad that Kaz would be kept away.
“But a few hours after the assault, he was left alone and knocked on my hotel room door, begging me not to press charges.
“I felt like the bosses just saw me as disposable. I felt let down.”
He said: “The other singers were already signed to a record deal with Syco or one of their associated labels, or hoping they might be.
“They were terrified of speaking out. I felt very isolated.” Sam said the “final insult” came when Rough Copy hosted their own party on the night of the final tour date in Birmingham.
He said: “I didn’t realise they were the hosts and when I turned up, Rough Copy, including Kaz and their families, were there.
“I felt uncomfortable. Syco’s security stepped in it was me they threw out. I went back to my hotel and cried for ages. I was in pieces.”
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full @ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...t-on-tour.html
Ugh, he was my fave!!!
Rouch Copy sucked so Im not surprised they sucked as people as well.
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and all over a harmless joke
Hope Sam presses charges on that animal