Cowell says Facebook campaign is 'stupid' (VIDEO)

Cowell says Facebook campaign is 'stupid' (VIDEO)
Cowell says Facebook campaign is 'stupid' (VIDEO) (Image credit: PA Archive/PA Photos)

Simon Cowell has hit back at a Facebook campaign to stop the X Factor single from landing this year's Christmas number one, describing it as 'stupid' and 'cynical'. Rage Against The Machine fan Jon Morter is urging members of the social networking site to download his song, Killing in the Name, to stop the winner of the ITV1 talent show from claiming the Christmas number one for the fifth year in a row. Speaking at a press conference ahead of this weekend's X Factor final, Simon said: "If there's a campaign, and I think the campaign's aimed directly at me, it's stupid. "I think it's quite a cynical campaign, geared at me, which is actually going to spoil the party for the three contestants. He added that he thought the campaign dismissed fans of the X Factor as 'stupid'. "And I don't like that," he said. CLICK below to watch an interview with The X Factor's Simon Cowell

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.