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Former The X Factor star Rebecca Ferguson has hit out at ITV as she tearfully claimed people who took part in the broadcaster’s reality shows were exploited.
Rebecca, 36, became a runner-up in the seventh season of the reality singing series in 2010.
She went on to release four top 10 albums, but retired in 2021.
This week she announced she was continuing to focus on ‘fighting for better treatment’ for artists and was breaking non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to share complaints she had made to ITV and Ofcom.
She’s now spoken more about her concerns about how reality stars are treated after the cameras stop rolling.
Speaking during a Twitter Space livestream, Rebecca said there had been deception during her own experience on reality TV.
While she acknowledged she had a ‘really good career’, she would not have wished what was happening to her behind-the-scenes ‘on my worst enemy’.
‘You can’t have your cake and eat it and only hear the nice stuff and not the abusive stuff. There is this idea that it comes with fame – [that] wanting to be a singer means you want that,’ she said.
‘It should not come with bullying, pressured into contracts I don’t want to sign.
‘I was a 23-year-old single mum alone – I didn’t have a pot to p*** in – I had come from a working class background and I was presented with this opportunity, and it was my dream since I was a little girl,’ she added, as reported by the Daily Mail.
While Rebecca said she had thought taking part in the series would have been ‘the best thing in the world’, she saw ‘things I didn’t like’ and claimed she had ‘tried to say something’.
She also claimed that the channel had ‘exploited’ people from working class backgrounds.
‘I was just trying to make it out of poverty. You need to ask why are people doing this to people on these shows,’ she said.
‘It’s often working class people taking part it’s always a troubled background.
‘They are handpicked because they are manipulated and moulded.’
The performer also said she believed that due to her young age at the time, she wasn’t able to understand the ‘business world’ and the contracts she was being asked to sign.
She has also called for an investigation into the show.
‘ITV need to face up to what they have done and say we shouldn’t have treated those people like that and we took advantage of it and it would give us closure,’ she said.
‘What I need and others need is closure because it was a huge part of our lives.
‘You need to treat the participants with respect.’
She added that ITV should comply with these requests to prove it had ‘nothing to hide’.
Rebecca said earlier this week that she wrote to ITV in 2021, requesting that it look into norms of conduct and post-show aftercare for reality programmes after three Love Island stars, including Caroline Flack, committed suicide.
Despite receiving an apology for ‘any personal poor experiences,’ ITV allegedly assured her they would not be looking further.
Rebecca shared an email she earlier sent to ITV in which she stated that while her life had “moved on” and her job was “still thriving,” she was “very concerned about the future contestants and their welfare.”
The X Factor was last shown on television in 2018, however it was not officially ended until 2021.
ITV has previously been under fire this month for charges of ‘toxicity’ on the set of This Morning, following Phillip Schofield‘s admission that he lied about having an affair with a young colleague.
Former show hosts and guests have come forward to say they observed or were victims of bullying on the set.
Source My Celebrity Life.
