The latest act to be kicked off ITV talent show 'The X Factor' has criticised Louis Walsh's choice of song for him to perform, saying his mentor may not have understood him.
Daniel de Bourg became the second hopeful to be voted off the reality talent programme on Saturday, after judges criticised his song choice.
The 31-year-old ballet tutor was an early favourite with bookmakers to win the ITV show but his rendition of the 1960s classic Build Me Up Buttercup failed to impress the panel.
"I was surprised, of course I was surprised," Daniel told a press conference. "I'm upset that I didn't get to show the real me.
"Louis knows what he's talking about, he's been in the game for a long time, but maybe he didn't really understand me, the kind of performer I am."
"I was doing my best in there with the song I was given, I tried to do it justice," he added. "But with a show like X Factor you have no say."
He described the process in which songs are matched to contestants as "backstage politics" and explained he had been due to sing the Damien Rice hit Cannonball before producers told him to do Prince's When Doves Cry instead.
Only after the first week's live show did he discover that a more upbeat song choice was required.
"After the end of the first week Louis came up to me just as I was leaving to get into the car, and said 'we've changed the song'," he said. "It was absolutely not the right decision.
"I don't know what was going on behind the scenes, it's a big, big TV show."
