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"Gary Barlow has blamed Frankie Cocozza&amp;#039;s critics and the press for the singer&amp;#039;s actions and departure from The X Factor.  Barlow accepted his own responsibility in the 18-year-old&amp;#039;s exit from the show, following a drugs scandal earlier this week, but said that the media and vocal critics online and in the studio audience should not be feeling smug about Cocozza&amp;#039;s exit. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve all encouraged Frankie to not only be good, but to be bad as well. We&amp;#039;ve enjoyed it, written about it. The show has benefited from the amount of publicity we&amp;#039;ve got out of it, but it&amp;#039;s just gone too far out of control of the show to keep him here. I do feel a responsibility and I do feel sorry. I&amp;#039;m sad for him,&amp;quot; he said.  &amp;quot;One of the worse things, and I&amp;#039;ll always remember this about Frankie, he was constantly told he shouldn&amp;#039;t be on the show.  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;X Factor&amp;#039; Frankie Cocozza &amp;#039;thought drug use was no big deal&amp;#039; &amp;gt; &amp;#039;X Factor&amp;#039; Jonjo Kerr: &amp;#039;Leave Frankie Cocozza alone&amp;#039; &amp;quot;He was told he wasn&amp;#039;t good enough constantly. Whether the messages were online, on Twitter or in the papers, they all said, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;re not good enough&amp;#039;.  &amp;quot;Then on Saturday night the audience booed him. I can see where his mind has gone in the last seven days and I don&amp;#039;t feel good about it at all. Anyone who has contributed to that shouldn&amp;#039;t feel good about it either.&amp;quot; All four X Factor judges were speaking at a conference to introduce their four returning acts - Amelia Lily, Jonjo Kerr, James Michael and 2 Shoes - who will compete in a public phone vote for the right to replace Cocozza in the talent show. &amp;gt; &amp;#039;X Factor&amp;#039; judges and wildcard acts: Press conference - Recap &amp;gt; &amp;#039;X Factor&amp;#039; phone vote to close during Saturday&amp;#039;s show Scroll through pictures from today&amp;#039;s X Factor press conference below: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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