X Factor finalists Rachel Adedeji, Miss Frank, Rikki Loney and Kandy Rain won’t be heading out on the official XF tour this year. The acts had hoped that they would be allowed to perform at some of the venues, but this year’s lineup includes only Lucie Jones, Stacey Solomon, Joe McElderry, Lloyd Daniels, Jamie Archer, Olly Murs, Danyl Johnson and John and Edward Grimes.

The news seemed to come as a shock to Dannii Minogue who was sure that Rachel Adedeji would take part in some of the tour dates. She wrote on her Twitter page:

“I thought she was doing some of the dates like London?”

Tour bosses announced today that due to high demand for tickets from Jedward fans, they have added 16 new dates across the UK.

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Poor old Kandy Rain. They left the X factor only a week ago and already they are being booed off stages.

The girls were appearing at McClusky’s club in Kingston Surrey but only got about five minutes into the gig before the crowd turned nasty.

One witness told The Sun: “It was carnage. Kandy Rain were only on stage for about five minutes.

“Every time they tried to talk they just got booed. It looked like things could turn nasty so the bouncers escorted them away.”

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X Factor creative director, Brian Friedman has slammed judges Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole for their treatment of Kandy Rain.

The female judges slammed the girl band for their provocative outfits, telling them they need to be more demure and move away from the stripper image.

Brian told Closer magazine: “I couldn’t believe what Cheryl and Dannii were saying. I wanted to say: ‘Stop hating.’ They had no right to say the band was styled wrong. It was hypocritical and unfair because they’ve both performed half-naked on stage themselves.”

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X Factor rejects Kandy Rain have hit out at hopeful Danyl Johnson calling him fake, arrogant & two faced. Though they refused to comment on Danyl when we spoke to them last Monday, it seems they have sold the whole sordid story to The News Of The World.

Azi Jegbefume, told the newspaper: “He is the most fake person in the entire world. He’s really two-faced. He can turn on tears in a flash.”

“He thinks to himself, ‘How will this look if I cry on camera? Will it make me look good?’ That’s how he works,” says Azi.

“He’s so arrogant. He’s walking around the house like he’s a champion as if he’s won the show already,” Azi added.

Azi also spoke more about the bullying incident, which Louis Walsh referred to earlier this month saying:

“We had to call one of the producers to the house, we were that upset.”

“The producer told me he would have a word with Danyl. But he didn’t apologise.”

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Kandy Rain, who were formed well in advance of this year’s X Factor, are in frighteningly good form. All four of the girls are bellowing down the line at me excitedly. These girls are a force of nature – laughing and talking over the top of each other. And they’ve got that weird synergy that when one girl stops talking, another will pick up from where they left off and continue. And spookily, all four frequently say exactly the same thing at the same time.

And that’s where we pick up our interview, with the Kandy Rain girls excitedly screaming hello down the phone lines…

Hello!!! We were sorry to hear that you girls got eliminated on Sunday night’s X Factor. We’d hoped that you’ve get a little father than this in the competition. Did you feel it was unfair that you got eliminated in the first week?

If we’re going based on our performance, then we don’t really feel it was fair. We went out there and gave everything on Saturday night and we felt we put in a really good performance, but due to the press and everything – we’ve had a lot of bad press – so in that respect, it wasn’t much of a shock.

We were talking about this last week, and it seems that the likelihood of a group getting eliminated in the first week is actually quite high.

I don’t think that’s fair to say. I know we were the first to leave, but the reason we went I feel was based on the press. In terms of the groups, I actually felt that on Saturday night, Louis Walsh had the strongest category.

Cheryl and Dannii both commented about your costumes. As Simon said, both of them have worn risque costumes on stage in the past, so how do you respond to that?

Well, we obviously didn’t agree, but we respect everything Cheryl and Dannii had to say. The thing with Kandy Rain, when we got out and perform, we want to enjoy ourselves and so we dress up and wear costumes. The outfits we wear onstage aren’t necessarily the kind of thing we’d wear walking down the street in the daytime. In terms of the outfits, we love our outfits!

Unfortunately, you guys didn’t get a chance to see us and understand what Kandy Rain is all about – we’re just four girls, one dream and all we wanna do is just go out there and just dress up. I think we’re all about having fun and enjoying ourselves and that’s what we did on Saturday.

Who chose the song, by the way, and do you think it worked for you? Do you think it kind of played to your past jobs as strippers?

We chose it with our mentor, Louis. To be quite honest with you, I think the song had no relevance at all to our past. I thought the song was perfect for us, and the way we were dressed was quite relevant to the song. I don’t know if anyone remembers, but in Robert Palmer’s video for Addicted To Love, the backing singers were dressed quite similar to how we were dressed.

We just dress ourselves according to the song, whether it’s a ballad or it’s an uptempo, sexy, rocky song, we’ll dress ourselves accordingly.

How did you feel that the majority of comments were about your style rather than your performance?

Well, I just feel that we came on here to enter this competition as singers and the comments had nothing to do with our vocals – it was all focussed on our outfits. At the end of the day, it’s a talent competition, it isn’t Britain’s Next Top Model.

That said, the fact that they didn’t comment on our singing must’ve meant that we were so fantastic there was nothing negative to say! Dannii and Cheryl know this, outfits can be changed, but we would still wear those costumes again. We wouldn’t change our style for the world, because that is us. When we put on a show, we really put on a show – we want people to think “What are they going to do next week? What are they going to wear?”

It’s boring to play safe, don’t you agree Gerard? Like, why’d you wanna be safe, boy? You’ve gotta take risks!

Well, just so you know, I enjoyed the performances and the costumes…

[A roar of laughter erupts into the earpiece] I’ll bet you did!!!

At this point, all four members of Kandy Rain are laughing and hollering down the phone and it’s impossible to tell who is saying what. Worse still, the girls “creatively misinterpret” a comment I make, and mercilessly take the piss out of me. As they tease me about whether or not I’m blushing on the other side of the line, one of the girls asks me which Kandy Rain member was my favourite…

After a flurry of discussion, we decide it was Azi (the tall one) that I liked the best, but they think I’m referring to the blazer she was wearing.

“So you like blazers, huh?” she purrs. “Well, you can borrow it whenever you want, babe. We’ll send it in to you, you can get it fitted…”

I’m out of my depth here, and very much out of my league. I need to get these girls focussed on the interview here, so I say:

Hey, Kandy rein it in for a minute, will you?

[laughter] Good comeback Gerard!

We read that Louis has said to the press that Danyl Johnson was giving you guys a hard time during the rehearsals. Is this true?

We don’t really wanna talk about Danyl, you know? This is our time. We wish him luck though, he’s an amazing singer. Everyone’s got different personalities anyway, but we wish him luck.

There’s been a lot of hype about the other girl group in your category, Miss Frank…

They’re amazing, lovely girls. Louis was very good with everybody in his category, and all three of us were very different. We all had something to give.

Yeah, we were surprised by John and Edward at the weekend.

Really? We love them! You know what, they are very underrated those boys, and at the end of the day, John and Edward are little stars. Those boys have grown, and the people that are criticising them are in their late twenties/early thirties and they’re not young kids – and it’s young kids that love watching ‘em bounce about the stage.

There’s a place for John and Edward – I could see that on Nickelodeon, the Teen Awards. I mean, if you look at the likes of Britney and Justin Timberlake coming from the Mickey Mouse Club, that’s the same type of thing that John and Edward are like.

And can I just say a big thank you to those two boys, because they helped us pack last night. We were really upset and they cheered us up – they were really there for us, even though they’re young. They really did their parents proud.

You girls are no strangers to bad press these days – how do you respond to all that press attention that you got?

At the moment, we just don’t want to read the papers these days. We just don’t understand why people keep wanting to say the same things over and over. We’re bored of it. It’s not even the focus – we’re doing X Factor, it’s a talent competition, people should be focussing on our singing. I can understand running one story, but don’t keep going on and on about it.

You just have to admit it – after our performance on Saturday night, people just need to drop it now and actually just say Kandy Rain are good.

Let’s talk about Kandy Rain for a minute – how long were you guys together before you auditioned for X Factor?

Well, we were together for a year as a group, but Coco and Azi have known each other for three years and we met the other girls a year ago. We decided to form Kandy Rain and there was no going back, Kandy Rain forever!

What was the goal with Kandy Rain? What type of group did you want to be?

We wanted to be a modern day All Saints. You know what, the group you saw on stage on Saturday night – that’s what we had in mind. More than being like any other group, though, we just wanted to be ourselves. Luckily enough, all four of us have got great personalities that actually gel and fit quite well together.

What do you take from the Pussycat Dolls comparisons?

We love the Pussycat Dolls, but we’re absolutely nothing like them. I think we’re a lot rockier.

In the States, you’ve got the Pussycat Dolls, but over here in England there isn’t anybody like us, so the only thing they can compare us to is an act like Pussycat Dolls. But we’re not, we’re Kandy Rain.

What’s in the future for Kandy Rain?

What we’ve been doing from day one is working hard, and that’s what we’re going to keep doing. As we always say, you haven’t seen the last of Kandy Rain!

Who are you hoping will win the show now that you’ve gone?

STACEY!!!! She’s an amazing girl, she’s a beautiful girl, inside and out. We got to spend a lot of time with her because we shared a room and she’s such an amazing girl, she’s got such a good heart and she really deserves it. She deserves to win!

After the interview…

After interviewing Kandy Rain, I have a horrible feeling that the public have been mislead about these girls. The stripper stories in the papers may not have done the girls any favours in the competition – but they’re not the trashy types we might have been led to believe.

If anything, they’re a fantastically vibrant group of friends – who were still laughing hard at the end of a long day of interviews. Their war cry – “You haven’t seen the last of Kandy Rain” shows that the girls have a lot of self-belief about their future as a group. They’re not ashamed of their pasts – plenty of girls are stripping as a way of paying their way through college – the most famous of the group Coco Lloyd, was a law student before entering X Factor.

They’re not bitter about the endless tabloid reports about them, just bored of a story that’s been blown out of all proportion. However, it’s a shame that the public didn’t get a chance to know the real Kandy Rain, because I think they’d have rather liked them. We wish the girls the best of luck in the future and hopefully all the X Factor Xposure will lead to a real career in the music business for them!

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X Factor rejects Kandy Rain have insisted that they had much more planned for their X Factor journey and many more tricks up their sleeves.

“We would have gone all out – we had a lot of tricks up our sleeve but unfortunately you don’t get to see it because you didn’t vote,” said Coco Lloyd told MSN.

Dance teacher Chemmane Applewhaite, 26, added: “We would have got bigger and better. We want to get people talking about what we’re going to sing and what we’re going to wear. We want to be different, and we’re not scared to take risks. We don’t want to be the same. The X Factor lack people like ourselves. We’re fearsome and fun!”

“We were feeling really upset last night, but we’ve got to see the positive in this,” said Khatereh Dovani, 24.

Azi Jegbefume added: “We didn’t deserve to go out. We did a great performance – our Fighter song was so strong – and we went out on a high.”

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Kandy Rain have become the first act to leave the X Factor 2009.

After only one live performance, the girls ended up in the bottom two with Rachel Adedeji. The judges struggled to decide who they wanted to send home and with each act winning two votes each, the show went into deadlock and referred back to the public voting figures.

So it was goodbye to raunchy Kandy Rain and all their lap dancing publicity, yet John and Edward remain!! How did it happen and how do you feel? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.

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As if Danyl Johnson hasn’t had a bad enough weekend, Louis Walsh has now called him a bully and claimed that he reduced girlband Kandy Rain to tears.

Sources told the News of The World that Kandy Rain reportedly rang Louis in tears after Danyl told them that they “have no chance”.

Louis is reported as saying: “Kandy Rain rang me crying.

“Danyl was slagging them off telling them they were never going to win. He really bullied them.

“Danyl is vile. He’s everything I don’t like.”

“He said none of my acts had a chance. As far as I’m concerned Danyl is arrogant and over-confident.

“He’s playing the whole thing.”

He said: “My girls have more appeal and will have more of a career than he ever will. They’re a lot more real and nicer than Danyl. But they are vulnerable.

They’re scared that girl viewers won’t vote for them because they were once strippers.”

“But at least they’re open and up front about it.”

So is Louis telling the truth? I highly doubt it. Louis knows that Danyl Johnson is the one to beat, he knows that most of his acts are crap and this is his way of sabotaging Simon Cowell and Danyl Johnson. It’s a low blow and one I hope the public see through.

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On last night’s X Factor the judges seemed very unconcerned with how the acts sang, and more bothered by how they looked or which gender they fancied.

After Kandy Rain gave their performance of ‘Addicted To Love’, Dannii Minogue failed to comment on their singing and instead blasted their outfits. She stated:

“Reign it in. The stories came out that you used to be pole dancers and all of that and you want us to listen to you as singers.”

Cheryl then waded into the debate saying:

“I totally agree. If I was your mentor I would have bought you out all demure. You keep saying you want to keep the past behind you but you come out all dressed a bit proactively and that’s the image you give off.”

Simon made the point that both Dannii and Cheryl have appeared half naked before as part of their music careers and we have the pictures to prove it.

Check out these shots below and let us know if you think Dannii and Cheryl had the right to criticise Kandy Rain.

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X Factor singer, Coco Lloyd has admitted that she was a bit of a naughty schoolgirl when she was younger. The 22 year old, who sings with girlband Kandy Rain, was recorded by a lads mag saying that when she was younger, she had sex with her teacher, in a classroom.

The Sun quotes Coco as saying:

“The naughtiest thing I’ve ever done was probably when I started seeing a teacher for about two weeks.

“I followed him on his break into the classroom. We thought no one was in.

“But as we started getting jiggy some people had seen us coming in so it was a bit of sex education for all those kids.”

She also teased: “I have a very high sex drive so I probably think about it about 80 per cent of the day.”

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