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Olly Murs on hosting 'X Factor': 'You have no idea of the pressure'

Singer Olly Murs has opened up about his recent ‘X Factor’ gaffe, which saw him announce that Monica Michael had been eliminated before the deadlock vote had been revealed.

The heartthrob told the Daily Mail that he was just nervous and made a genuine and unfortunate error:  “I mean, I've made mistakes before. I've fallen over on stage. I've forgotten my lyrics. But this was different. It was a pivotal moment and I just got confused about what was happening next."

"I said the wrong words to Simon and I just lost the plot and said, 'OK Monica, I'm so sad to see you go' when I should have said, 'We're going to deadlock.' In my earpiece I was being told by the production team I'd made a mistake – but they didn't say what the mistake was. I was completely – what's the word? – confused."

He went onto add that his mother rang him after the blunder aired and called him a "plonker": “She said, 'You plonker! What were you thinking?' But then when the whole storm blew up she became quite defensive of me. I mean the reaction was a bit much.”

“I mean, with everything that was happening, what I did was small in comparison. But people on Twitter were outraged, saying, 'He should be sacked, he's rubbish.' By the end of it I wanted to say, 'Here you go, here's my mic, next Saturday you get up and do it.' They have no idea what sort of pressure there is on that show.”

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