X Factor’s Joe McElderry has reportedly ‘broken a rib’ after a prank went wrong. Lucie Jones and Stacey Solomon were trying to play a prank on Olly Murs, when they managed to injure Jo instead.

Speaking on the official X Factor site, Stacey said: “This week me and Lucie decided to prank Olly but Olly was in a bad mood.

“We went downstairs with a bottle of water and the plan was that Lucie would open his pants and I would pour the water, but Lucie chickened out last minute because Olly was getting angry saying ‘get out of my room’.

“So we went up to his bedroom and because he hates mess we moved his blanket, we put his shoes on his bed, toothpaste, hair gel and hair spray and then he started running up the stairs so we ran and ran and I fell up the stairs and Joe slipped on a can of deodorant on to the floor and broke his rib.”

An X Factor spokesperson denied that Joe had broken any bones.

They said: “It appears that they were just messing around in the house and playing pranks on each other.”