While news of Frankie Cocozza’s shock elimination from The X factor was breaking online yesterday, no one thought to inform show judge Kelly Rowland.

The brunette beauty was doing press interviews in the afternoon, and as you can see in the video below had no idea that the 18 year old singer was booted off the show because of supposed rule breaking behaviour.

Kelly looked shocked and unsettled as a journalist asked for her reaction to Frankie’s dismissal and though she refused to comment on the story, until she got full confirmation of the decision, she did utter ‘poor guy’ as the situation was explained by her interviewer.

She may not feel the same if today’s claims are true, as many sources are reporting that Cocozza did not decide to leave, but was sent packing by show bosses after they heard he had been boasting about taking cocaine and having all night sex sessions after Saturday’s live show.

We are shortly expecting an announcement from ITV on what is planned for tomorrow night’s show, but The Risk have confirmed that whatever ITV decide to do, they won’t be returning.

You can read what we think they’ll do about extending the rest of the series here.