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"Joe McElderry has said that X Factor&amp;#039;s John Adeleye was let down by his song choice on Saturday night. Last year&amp;#039;s X Factor champion said that Adeleye&amp;#039;s lack of press and the controversy over his backing dancers on this weekend&amp;#039;s show were less important than his poor track selection. The 29-year-old Londoner performed Fat Larry&amp;#039;s Band&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Zoom&amp;#039; on Saturday&amp;#039;s Guilty Pleasures theme night and was booted out of the show by the public and judges yesterday. Speaking on The Xtra Factor, McElderry said: &amp;quot;I feel sorry for John. He&amp;#039;s got an amazing voice. He didn&amp;#039;t get the right songs. He could have had so many better songs. Something that brought a bit more personality out. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think [the backing dancers] made a difference. It&amp;#039;s the whole package obviously, but it&amp;#039;s got to be based around a voice and he&amp;#039;s got an amazing voice.&amp;quot; When asked whether Adeleye had slipped under the radar with the public because of a lack of media interest, the 19-year-old commented: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think that matters who gets the most press. I didn&amp;#039;t get any press whatsoever last year. They didn&amp;#039;t pick up on me at the start. It was only week six or seven where the press started picking up on me.&amp;quot; McElderry backed Matt Cardle and Cher Lloyd as the &amp;quot;frontrunners&amp;quot; in the TV talent contest, but added that it was far too early to call a winner. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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