Urban duo MK1, who were voted out of The X Factor on the weekend, have hit out at some of the show's judges for chatting amongst themselves during their sing-off to decide their fate on the programme.

Charlie Rundle, 19, and Sim Dixon, 24, were kicked off the TV talent show and explained that while Louis Walsh and Tulisa Contostavlos wanted them to remain on The X Factor, panelists Gary Barlow and Nicole Scherzinger voted to keep Kye Sones and talked during their song. Rundle said: "The whole time we were performing Gary and Nicole were just whispering to each other, and I thought, I'm trying to sing for my place and they were chatting - that's just rude."

"If I'm trying to sing for my life, don't talk through my performance."

Sim Dixon added: "And they (Barlow and Scherzinger) gave Kye full attention. It should have been a fair balance and it wasn't. We just couldn't understand what was going on last night, a few hours before our performance we got a lot of tweets from our fans telling us that the voting line for MK1 was frozen and they couldn't vote for us so we were getting really worried.

"In previous series, when that tends to happen, the act goes into the bottom two and may leave the competition. When Dermot called our name out that was really playing through our minds."