Last year's X Factor contestant Ben Mills has turned down an offer from TV producers to make an appearance on this year's series and has insisted that he should never have taken part in the contest.

 

Mentored by Sharon Osbourne, Mills came third in the 2006 series of the reality show behind Ray Quinn and eventual winner Leona Lewis.

 

The singer revealed during a Variety Club charity event that he had been approached by TV bosses to make an appearance during the current programme.

 

He said: "I’m still in touch with people who work on X Factor. They have been in touch and said do you wanna come on and do some stuff. But to be totally honest I’m really trying to sidestep anything to do with the X Factor now because I don’t think it’s going to do me any favours.

 

"Now I really want to concentrate on getting away from it and coming out with the next album. Let everyone concentrate on this year’s X Factor and forget me as someone who was on the X Factor."

 

The 27-year-old also admitted that he had only gone on the show as a last resort and he should never have entered the contest.

 

He is signed to SonyBMG and is currently working on his second album, following the release of his debut, Picture Of You, earlier this year

from digital spy

 

I wish a mistake i made would result in me getting a top 5 album

He said this and he's signed to SONYBMG - Simon Cowell's record label.

I agree, it was a mistake for him to be on the X factor

I dont like him or his music LOL

wow he didn't even release any singles from his debut album did he?? :blink: i think it scraped gold aswell....does anyone know the actual sales??

It's a shame someone with obvious talent such as him had to lower himself to that, plus the audience his music would appeal to was blatantly not the housewives/kids that fill their brains with that junk on tv. When you hear the album, you can just tell it's not what he wanted. When I met him a few months ago, he said he really wanted 'Live Or Let Die' to be on the album, but the label wouldn't let him because the video of the performance didn't have enough views on youtube :blink:

Edited September 12, 200717 yr by Mark.

He said this and he's signed to SONYBMG - Simon Cowell's record label.

 

Syco is Cowell's label which is part of SBMG. I'm sure Ben will be signed to another division of the company.

Oh, that's really charming - the show which gave him such an amazing opportunity he's basically saying can f*ck right off because he's obviously developed this snobbery which surrounds Reality TV.

 

Bye Ben...I'm sure we won't be seeing you in the charts ANY time soon. :puke2:

It annoys me when people say this...if you don't want a 'reality star' tag, then don't enter the shows...

I didn't mind him

I have a feeling he will disappear like Steve Brookstein did. Its a pity because he's got potential to be good. I did get his first album but was disappointed by it.

For someone who supposedly had so much "savvy" regarding the recording industry, it surprises me that Ben Mills actually expected anything else other than what transpired on "X-Factor" to be honest.. Did he honestly believe that these three leeches were interested in actually nurturing talent??? He's either the biggest fool in the world, or else he knew exactly what he was getting into and is moaning about it now because it didn't pay off.... If you want to be taken seriously as some sort of artiste, then you dont go on what is essentially just a Cattle Market.... -_- Did his idol, Jim Morrison, need a fukkin' Reality TV show??? Nope......

 

No one with any musical or artistic integrity is gonna touch something like "X-Factor" with a sodding barge-pole, simple as, it aint exactly gonna create any new Morrisseys or Jarvis Cockers or Thom Yorkes or K T Tunstalls or Bjorks is it....?

So he'll be giving his "mistake" of a record contract back then? :funky:

So he'll be giving his "mistake" of a record contract back then? :funky:

 

:lol: :lol:

 

I would call it more of a "joke" than a "mistake" considering his poor album sales.... :lol:

 

My best friend met him, he seemed very sleazy apparently. :lol: