'Louis
doesn't know you':
Song choice is disastrous for Daniel
By Kevin Widdop
 DISHY
Daniel de Bourg has spoken for the first time about the disastrous
decision to sing Build Me Up Buttercup on X Factor and revealed:
“I’m gutted.”
VIDEO:
Watch Daniel's exit interview
Dance teacher Daniel, 31, mentored by Louis Walsh, was voted
off the show last night and said that he was baffled about the
song choice because he got on the show for singing “soulful
stuff…not big, happy songs.”
He said: “Maybe if I had been able to do what I wanted,
it would have been a great show.
“I think it reflects more on the song than it does me.
“It feels strange at the moment. I did my best with the
song that I was given. I wasn’t going to sing that song,
I was going to do Prince’s When Doves Cry, but I tried to
do it justice anyway.
“The thing is with a show like X Factor, you have to do
what they say.
“Louis came up to me at the end of the first week and he
was like, ‘we’re changing the song’.
“I was like, ‘Buttercup? You sure about that, Louis?’
He said [putting on an Irish accent], ‘Trust me, trust
me, it’s alright, everyone loves Buttercup. Just do it.’”
The rugged star was voted into the bottom two with Sharon Osbourne
protege Alisha Bennett.
Now he says that he has been flooded with calls from record
labels since leaving the show last night and is now looking for
the golden ticket by securing a record deal, but admits that he
is not bitter.
He said: “I’m thinking that maybe they did me a
big, big favour.
“Louis’ a great guy, I don’t think I was set
up at all like some people were saying.
“He didn’t see it the same way everyone else did.
“All the contestants were like, ‘what happened?’
Niki especially. She went up to them and said, ‘Do you realise
what you have just let go?’"
The 31-year-old said that superstar songstress Celine Dion,
who helped mentor the last 11 for the week, was a real inspiration.
And the budding star revealed that Simon Cowell came up to him
after the show and said: ‘Louis doesn’t know you.’
He said: ““I was thinking, ‘wow, should I
be saying thanks?’
“The best thing to come from the evening was Celine Dion.
She came up to me and said: ‘You were my favourite.’”
The Londoner, who has a three-year-old son Theron, is now chomping
at the bit as he looks to make his next move He said: “Maybe
I was the wrong kind of dude for the show.
“I wanted to make a difference, I wanted to change things,
but now I have responsibilities.
“I have been seen by millions and millions of people around
Europe and I’ve got a lot of people giving me love right
now.”
But just like barmaid Kimberly Southwick, who was the first
to leave the live shows last week, the doting dad has backed 34-year-old
Niki Evans to go on and win the show.
He said: “All the way for me.
“She’s wonderful, humble and so talented. I think
she’ll do it.”
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