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“X FACTOR DRUGS PROBE
X Factor favourite Rachel Hylton will be hauled before show bosses this week after claims she took drugs at boot camp.
It is alleged that former crack addict Rachel smoked cannabis on more than one occasion in the London hotel where she and the other contestants were staying during filming.
Rachel, 26, is said to have lapsed back into her old ways because of the enormous pressure of the show.
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But judge Simon Cowell - who has fully supported her despite her previous drug admissions - will be stunned to hear about the allegations.
A source said: "This is the last thing Simon or the other judges will be expecting to hear.
"In August, when Rachel admitted her horrific teen life of drug addiction, crime and under-age sex, she said that it was all in the past and that she had turned over a new leaf.
"Simon thought she deserved a second chance and told everyone 'If someone says they've done things they regret, you have to give them a second chance'.
"But if these claims are founded, who knows what he'll think or what will happen. She may even be forced off the show."
The drug allegations were revealed as it also emerged mum-offive Rachel reduced rival Ruth Lorenzo to tears.
Stressed-out Rachel flew off the handle after the Spanish beauty asked her to stop smoking cigarettes in the room they were sharing.
Rachel was so aggressive that PR girl Ruth was terrified of being in the same bedroom and even begged researchers to keep them apart.
Ruth, 25, was moved to another room and Rachel was warned that cigarette smoking was forbidden in the hotel room.
The bitter feud could lead to a difficult atmosphere on the live shows if BOTH singers in the over-25 category get through to the final 12 after tonight's show.
It has also raised concerns that the single mum-of-five who has been jailed twice might lose her temper again as the pressure mounts.
Our source said: "Everyone felt so sorry for Ruth. She's a lovely, polite woman but Rachel just reduced her to tears. She was a wreck.
"Rachel says she's turned her life around, but she's not the big softie she makes out to be.
"People are scared of her. Ruth felt intimidated."
Ruth told pals she felt like she was walking on eggshells when they shared the hotel room during boot camp.
She feared Ruth would lose her temper and explode. Just two nights into the weeklong stay they had the row and Ruth asked show bosses if she could move.
"Rachel is hard work," said a show insider.
"Poor Ruth was scared that she would erupt and unleash that temper at any minute.
"Ruth was biting her tongue but Rachel was being unbearable. She was smoking constantly, chatting loudly on her phone all the time and had the TV blaring while Ruth was desperately trying to practice her vocals.
"In the end Ruth politely asked her to turn the TV down, but then Rachel just went mad. She screamed at Ruth to stop ordering her around, was barking insults at her and was not letting Ruth get a word in.
"Poor Ruth was really shaken and burst into tears."
Ruth ran out to speak to the show's researchers. She begged for a new room so she didn't have to be near the reformed convict.
"She was too upset to tell anyone exactly what Rachel had said," revealed the source.
"But it was so loud everyone knew who the main aggressor was.
"Ruth had tears streaming down her face and asked staff to get her a new room. She was too scared to be near Rachel at all. No one blamed her. She moved rooms the next day.
"Ruth is very big-hearted and down-to-earth so she will try to make amends at some stage but right up until they went to the judges' houses, there was still tension bubbling under the surface."
Both singers were among the six over-25s taken to mentor Dannii Minogue's house in Cannes.
Viewers will see tonight if they and fellow favourite, widower Daniel Evans, can beat mum Louise Heatley, ex-411 singer Suzie Furlonger, and X Faker Alan Turner to be the three over-25s in the final 12. Rachel has already been made favourite to win the show after she bared her soul about turning her life around.
The single mum revealed how she was expelled at 11, pregnant at 12, on crack by 13 and heroin shortly after.
She admitted shoplifting and mugging to fund her addiction and was jailed for the first time at 18 for attempted burglary.
Her first three children were taken into care but it was when she gave birth to the fourth, son Tishon, that she finally managed to kick drugs.
She says she is now a happy full-time mum with Tishon and daughter Tashanee.
She told how after having Tishon, six, and Tashanee, four, she had been able to kick ALL drugs for good.
Speaking about her success, she said: "It's another thing to keep me off drugs. I am so glad X Factor decided not to throw me away even though I have a past."
But Rachel has not been able to curb her temper.
On last week's boot camp show she was nearly axed after answering back Simon Cowell.
She returned and apologised the next day. But it was only after a telling off from her MUM.
"Rachel looked contrite on the TV, but the person who really made her see the error of her ways was her mum," said a show insider.
"Rachel had been on the phone boasting to her about what she said to Simon.
"But her mum told her she was a very stupid girl.
"It seems Mrs Hylton is the only one who can keep Rachel's fiery temper in check."
Last night an X Factor spokeswoman said: "Producers are unaware of the drug allegations but will speak to Rachel about them this week."”
“X FACTOR DRUGS PROBE
X Factor favourite Rachel Hylton will be hauled before show bosses this week after claims she took drugs at boot camp.
It is alleged that former crack addict Rachel smoked cannabis on more than one occasion in the London hotel where she and the other contestants were staying during filming.
Rachel, 26, is said to have lapsed back into her old ways because of the enormous pressure of the show.
Advertisement
But judge Simon Cowell - who has fully supported her despite her previous drug admissions - will be stunned to hear about the allegations.
A source said: "This is the last thing Simon or the other judges will be expecting to hear.
"In August, when Rachel admitted her horrific teen life of drug addiction, crime and under-age sex, she said that it was all in the past and that she had turned over a new leaf.
"Simon thought she deserved a second chance and told everyone 'If someone says they've done things they regret, you have to give them a second chance'.
"But if these claims are founded, who knows what he'll think or what will happen. She may even be forced off the show."
The drug allegations were revealed as it also emerged mum-offive Rachel reduced rival Ruth Lorenzo to tears.
Stressed-out Rachel flew off the handle after the Spanish beauty asked her to stop smoking cigarettes in the room they were sharing.
Rachel was so aggressive that PR girl Ruth was terrified of being in the same bedroom and even begged researchers to keep them apart.
Ruth, 25, was moved to another room and Rachel was warned that cigarette smoking was forbidden in the hotel room.
The bitter feud could lead to a difficult atmosphere on the live shows if BOTH singers in the over-25 category get through to the final 12 after tonight's show.
It has also raised concerns that the single mum-of-five who has been jailed twice might lose her temper again as the pressure mounts.
Our source said: "Everyone felt so sorry for Ruth. She's a lovely, polite woman but Rachel just reduced her to tears. She was a wreck.
"Rachel says she's turned her life around, but she's not the big softie she makes out to be.
"People are scared of her. Ruth felt intimidated."
Ruth told pals she felt like she was walking on eggshells when they shared the hotel room during boot camp.
She feared Ruth would lose her temper and explode. Just two nights into the weeklong stay they had the row and Ruth asked show bosses if she could move.
"Rachel is hard work," said a show insider.
"Poor Ruth was scared that she would erupt and unleash that temper at any minute.
"Ruth was biting her tongue but Rachel was being unbearable. She was smoking constantly, chatting loudly on her phone all the time and had the TV blaring while Ruth was desperately trying to practice her vocals.
"In the end Ruth politely asked her to turn the TV down, but then Rachel just went mad. She screamed at Ruth to stop ordering her around, was barking insults at her and was not letting Ruth get a word in.
"Poor Ruth was really shaken and burst into tears."
Ruth ran out to speak to the show's researchers. She begged for a new room so she didn't have to be near the reformed convict.
"She was too upset to tell anyone exactly what Rachel had said," revealed the source.
"But it was so loud everyone knew who the main aggressor was.
"Ruth had tears streaming down her face and asked staff to get her a new room. She was too scared to be near Rachel at all. No one blamed her. She moved rooms the next day.
"Ruth is very big-hearted and down-to-earth so she will try to make amends at some stage but right up until they went to the judges' houses, there was still tension bubbling under the surface."
Both singers were among the six over-25s taken to mentor Dannii Minogue's house in Cannes.
Viewers will see tonight if they and fellow favourite, widower Daniel Evans, can beat mum Louise Heatley, ex-411 singer Suzie Furlonger, and X Faker Alan Turner to be the three over-25s in the final 12. Rachel has already been made favourite to win the show after she bared her soul about turning her life around.
The single mum revealed how she was expelled at 11, pregnant at 12, on crack by 13 and heroin shortly after.
She admitted shoplifting and mugging to fund her addiction and was jailed for the first time at 18 for attempted burglary.
Her first three children were taken into care but it was when she gave birth to the fourth, son Tishon, that she finally managed to kick drugs.
She says she is now a happy full-time mum with Tishon and daughter Tashanee.
She told how after having Tishon, six, and Tashanee, four, she had been able to kick ALL drugs for good.
Speaking about her success, she said: "It's another thing to keep me off drugs. I am so glad X Factor decided not to throw me away even though I have a past."
But Rachel has not been able to curb her temper.
On last week's boot camp show she was nearly axed after answering back Simon Cowell.
She returned and apologised the next day. But it was only after a telling off from her MUM.
"Rachel looked contrite on the TV, but the person who really made her see the error of her ways was her mum," said a show insider.
"Rachel had been on the phone boasting to her about what she said to Simon.
"But her mum told her she was a very stupid girl.
"It seems Mrs Hylton is the only one who can keep Rachel's fiery temper in check."
Last night an X Factor spokeswoman said: "Producers are unaware of the drug allegations but will speak to Rachel about them this week."”
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I'm not a fan of Ruth at all.
she will now use this to get the public support and at rachels expense who is head and shoulders above her in singing, she will last longer 'sigh'
