Former X Factor contestant Wagner Fiuza-Carrilho is reportedly blaming his mentor Louis Walsh for his X Factor exit.
According to the Daily Mail, he said: "The trouble was Louis gave me fast songs in English so I had tremendous difficulty learning the lyrics.
"My main language is Portuguese so because of that and the schedule of the show I didn’t have enough time to rehearse and practise.
"English isn’t my first language, I struggled."
He performed 'Creep' by Radiohead on Saturday night’s show, but despite winning some praise, he was voted off the show the next day.
Fiuza-Carrilho added: "The songs that can really show my voice like 'La Fortuna' and 'The Wonder Of You' and 'Creep', I sang them well because I can connect with the emotion. Songs like 'She Bangs', I can’t feel that."
When asked to name the worst song Walsh gave him, he chose the Elvis classic 'Viva Las Vegas': "It was fast and meaningless. I didn’t want to sing some of the lyrics either, 'I am the devil with love to spare'.
"I don’t like the devil. I don’t like evil. I don’t like what the devil stands for."
However his mentor, Walsh, only had praise for the singer: "Wagner was great to work with and I hope he now makes a lot of money".
