Mar 30, 2009 • 1 min read

Nutini on Jackson and Cowell

Paolo Nutini says former 'X Factor' winner Leon Jackson should have expected being dropped by Simon Cowell, and warns against trusting Cowell with a career.

That Paolo Nutini chap has said that former 'X-Factor' winner Leon Jackson, dropped by Simon Cowell fifteen months after his reality show victory, should have probably expected things to pan out that way. Nutini told Scotland's Daily Record: "A lot of people on these shows are lucky to get a second album out. I don't know much about Leon Jackson, but I wish him all the best. But he must have known the nature of that TV show when he walked into the audition".

He added: "Simon Cowell is not someone I would trust with my career because, to him, you are just a little fish in a big bowl. I have never met him, but 'The X Factor' is about being in it to win it. I'd see it as a hindrance to have the expectation that comes with winning".

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