Girlband - X Factor 2008

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Simon Cowell asked X Factor finalists, Girlband, to lose some weight during the bootcamp stage of auditions.

The group spoke to Heatworld.com and revealed that they were less than happy when Cowell told them to “tone up” as they were perfectly happy with their body shapes.

One of the girls, Phoebe, told Heat:

“In the boot camp stage, we actually had a comment from Simon Cowell. It was all really nice comments and suddenly a little pause, ‘Girls, tone up!’ And we were like ‘What?!’ He said, ‘If you want to be in a girlband, that’s how it’s supposed to be.’”

Layla added, “We don’t want to be all skinny girls just because every other girl band out there are really skinny, I don’t see why we have to be like that. We can all sing, we can all dance, I don’t think we look too bad.”