Oh dear. Big allegations being thrown around at the moment as the X Factor producers have been accused of rigging the show after they ALLEGEDLY signed a deal to guarantee one act safe passage through to the live shows.

A member of the girlband Husstle told other contestants at London’s Boot Camp round that her group had already been promised a place in the studio finals, according to various reports.

A (hopefully televised) fight is supposed to have broken out after one of the group apparently claimed that her band’s manager Spike Dawbarn (formerly of 911 and thereby, most likely to have a link with Cowell) got a guarantee from Simon Cowell and show producers that the group would make it past both Boot Camp and Judges’ Houses.

A source said: “This girl was boasting and winding everyone up about it. They had already been swanning around the place acting like top dogs, so when one of them said they were told they’d be in the final lineup it all kicked off.

“People were screaming and jabbing fingers at each other and some girls even burst into tears. The row got so nasty that producers had to rush in and cool it down.”

Cowell’s spokeswoman insisted that the claim was “total rubbish”.