Charlotte: 'X Factor's James makes me cry'

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Charlotte: 'X Factor's James makes me cry'
Charlotte: 'X Factor's James makes me cry' (Image credit: PA)

Britain's Got Talent star Charlotte Jaconelli has confessed she bursts into tears every time she sees James Arthur sing on The X Factor. The 17-year-old opera singer, who has shot to fame with school friend Jonathan Antoine, 17, after coming second on Britain's Got Talent this year, is a big fan of The X Factor and is struggling to choose a favourite contestant to support. She said: "My favourite was Amy Mottram and now she's a wild card and she might not be in it. But I also like James Arthur - he makes me cry every time he sings. "There's loads - they're all amazing. I think Lucy Spraggan's really good at what she does. They're all so good this year, they've got really amazing singers and it's just so hard to pick a favourite." But whoever does win this year's X Factor, Charlotte promises the contestants that even being a runner-up on one of Simon Cowell's TV talent shows will completely change their life. She said: "Oh my God - it literally flips your life upside down and changes it completely. It's an amazing thing to happen."

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.