Any of you that watched last Saturday’s X Factor show will have seen handsome hopeful, Alan Turner, turn on the waterworks claiming he was fostered as a child and didn’t know his real family.

Well his dad has spoken out today and claimed that Alan has been telling a few porkies in order to tug at our heartstrings!

‘He must come clean. It’s all a lie. He has not been fostered,’ said Alan senior to the Daily Mirror.

‘I only spoke to him five weeks ago. He’s made himself look a bit of a clot.’

In fact Alan’s dad claimed that the lady who accompanied him to the auditions was not as he claimed his foster mum but in fact his grandmother.

‘She was the lady on the TV with him, not his foster parent as it said,’ says Alan senior.

Alan’s uncle Shaun Stanfield has also spoken out, saying: ‘His mam and dad have always been there for him. He’s invented this sob story just to dupe the judges into putting him through.’