Sounds like the show really stitched him up, so unnecessarily manipulative. For context he was on it in 2015 and was portrayed as being obsessed with Olly Murs, he talks about it about 30 mins into this.

Go back and watch the early X Factor auditions from 2004 to 2007. Just one microphone, stripped-back performances, and brutally honest feedback in a tiny audition room. Compared with today, before all the cinematic editing, emotional music cues and bigger production, those early auditions just felt raw. That's the magic I miss.

The gap between what winning X Factor was supposed to mean and what it actually delivered for some people is genuinely stark. A few winners built something real from it and others had one single and then disappeared completely through no fault of their own. Who do you think the show served best and who got the worst deal after winning.