X Factor clash: Did Wagner try to headbutt Harry?

X Factor clash: Did Wagner try to headbutt Harry?
X Factor clash: Did Wagner try to headbutt Harry?

A charity video shoot reportedly ended in an altercation between two X Factor contestants after Wagner tried to headbutt One Direction's Harry. An insider on the shoot told The Mirror: "Trouble flared towards the end of a video session, when tensions were already running high. "Wagner, One Direction, Nicolo Festa, Storm Lee and John Adeleye had all sung a line together and immediately after it, Harry was told to jokingly rugby tackle Wagner as he walked out of shot. "Unfortunately no one had told Wagner what was in store. "The next thing he knew, Harry was play fighting him to the ground and Wanger didn't realise the camera was still rolling. "Incensed, he shook Harry off and squared up to him, locking foreheads." Furious, Wagner said: "Don't mess with a man who knows martial arts." The source added: "Wagner then made as if to do an elaborate karate chopping movement, and shoved Harry, before staff stepped in and separated them. "It was all pretty hostile and the atmosphere afterwards was terrible."

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.