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Joan Armatrading: I don't like X-factor when it's cruel

Musician Joan Armatrading has criticised X Factor for being "cruel" to contestants.

The Ivor Novello winning singer said she liked the programme when the audience laughed with, not at, the contestants.

"Sometimes it gets a little bit, as if people are being used," she said.

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