X Factor evictee Dionne Mitchell has hit out at Simon Cowell after she was booted off the show last weekend.

Dionne left the show as part of a shock double-elimination, which also saw Kerry McGregor being voted off the show.

At a press conference after her eviction from the show, Dionne said: “I felt that Simon’s comments were a personal attack against me.”

“I have always held Simon Cowell in great esteem. But last night shattered every illusion that I had of him.”

“I didn’t come on this show to be a backing singer,” she said in response to Cowell’s claims she should be singing back-up vocals.

Fellow contestant Kerry said: “When Louis said I had peaked, I really knew he was wrong. I think last night’s performance was one of my best on ‘The X Factor’ so far – but people have not heard me at my peak yet.”