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Harris: Raid meant to undermine X-Factor
Monday 16 November 2009
Harris added that he hoped the boys would win the competition but only because it would be difficult for them to survive once the series ended.
The music producer signalled his intention to mount the stage during the show on Twitter hours before the show by posting a picture of a pineapple - a reference to the twins' spikey hairdos - with the word 'important' underneath.
Watch John and Edward's performance here.
Towards the end of their performance of the Queen song 'Under Pressure' on Saturday night, he clambered up alongside the pair and put a pineapple on his head.
He told DJ Chris Moyles this morning: "I was just inspired to make a mockery of the show. Because it is a music competition, it is a joke and I think it should be treated as such, so when people were saying 'John and Edward, maybe they deserve to stay in this week', I was like 'are you watching what I'm watching?'"
According to the Telegraph, he added: "It's terrible, it's terrible... For the greater good of the nation I wanted to go out there and make an idiot of myself and sort of just bring the whole show into another kind of area in which it's treated as kind of a joke."
Harris said he had initially found the 'Jedward' phenomenon "hilarious" but had gone off them since the act became "knowingly funny".
He said: "As entertainment goes it's pretty much down there with the worst. So compared to everybody else... it's funny, but I've noticed as the week goes on it's kind of knowingly funny, whereas first it was kind of 'John and Edward, ah they're rubbish, they should get out of there' and they were doing these terrible performances and it was hilarious.
"And then the producers cottoned on to this, as occasionally they do, and kind of make scenarios which they thought it would be funnier to put them in, and it wasn't which was a shame.
"I'd love them to win because where can they go from there? Not them, where can X-Factor go from there? It's not a music competition."
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