Robbie Williams has given his opinions on some of the X Factor contestants and admitted that he was a little perturbed by John and Edward Grimes.”

Robbie has mentored the X Factor acts in the run up to tonight’s live show and in an interview with The Sun, he said:

“Well, I don’t know what has happened to Danyl. I saw his first audition and I just thought, ‘There’s the fella that has come and will take the crown away’.

“I will have a chat with him and I’ll tell him to chill out. Let them walk around you, don’t go to them. I thought he was phenomenal in the first audition he did.”

On John and Edward he said: “They kind of scare me. There’s something there. Maybe it’s a show on Nickelodeon?”

He went on to back Rachel Adedeji, calling her “fully-formed” and a “really interesting character”.

“I can tell she will have some good, interesting things to sing about and interesting ways to say them,” he added.