Mary Byrne: I never saw anybody being treated badly on the X Factor

Jedward have slammed the X Factor in a savage Twitter tirade, but Mary Byrne says that some contestants on the show end up bitter when their career does not go the way they intended

Mary Byrne says the X Factor changed her life for the better.

In 2010 Mary Byrne blew the X Factor judges out of the water at her audition singing I Who Have Nothing by Tom Jones. Byrne came fifth in her season of the show, going on to have a number one album with Sony, record an album for Universal with Phil Coulter and then release an album independently.