Diana Vickers - X Factor 2008

Former X Factor contestant Diana Vickers, has admitted that she is glad she didn’t win the show. The blonde singer says that, had she been signed by Simon Cowell, she would have been a manufactured artist and had no control over her career.

She told The Lancashire Telegraph: “I’m really glad I didn’t win. It’s great to not have been manufactured into something I’m not, or forced into getting an album out quickly to get back on TV.”

And the singer also admitted watching this year’s show is “surreal”.

She told a newspaper: “I thought I wouldn’t have been able to even switch it on without feeling sick but, surprisingly I can sit down and watch it and have a laugh watching it. I know what’s going through the contestants’ minds and it’s such a rare experience to be on The X Factor.”