You could tell Olly Murs was beating himself up the moment he realised he’d mistakenly revealed Monica Michael had been given the boot from The X Factor too early.
But not only did the show host receive criticism from viewers, his MUM gave him a right telling off after seeing the blunder on television.
Olly, who presents the show alongside Caroline Flack, received a phone call from his mother, who called him a “plonker”.
Former X Factor contestant Olly stumbled over his words earlier this month and told Monica she had been voted off the show when they were actually going to deadlock so the judges – Simon Cowell, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw – could vote on who they thought should leave.
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Olly told Daily Mail Weekend: “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.”
Olly’s mum called him soon after to give him a scolding but quickly became protective of her son when she realised just how unimpressed the viewing public were.
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“She said, ‘You plonker. What were you thinking?’ But then the whole storm blew up, she became quite defensive of me,” he continued.
“I mean, the reaction was a bit much.”
Olly tweeted an apology after the show and received some support from fans and also got a message from former host Dermot O’Leary.
He wrote: “Hey @ollyofficial Ahoy my friend. Keep that head up. Happens to us all. X”
His co-presenter Caroline Flack added: “We all make mistakes. I make LOADS in life and on telly... It’s live.”
Don’t worry, Olly. It’s all in the past now...
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