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Adele Would Have Got X Factor Axe, Says The Voice Judge Danny O'Donoghue

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First Posted: 12/03/2012 08:57 Updated: 12/03/2012 09:07   PA

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World-conquering star Adele would have been rejected if she had tried to find fame on The X Factor, according to The Script's frontman Danny O'Donoghue.

The Irish star - a judge on BBC One's soon-to-launch talent show The Voice - believes Adele would not have succeeded because her look does not fit "the mould".

But he reckons she would have had no difficulties on his new Saturday night programme which aims to reward talent rather than image. The Voice auditions contestants without actually seeing them.

Curvaceous star Adele has found global fame in the past year, crowned with six Grammys and a double Brit win last month. Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld drew condemnation recently when he remarked that she was "too fat".

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O'Donoghue said other talent shows would have failed to give her a chance because she did not look like a conventional pop star.

He said: "We need to take the music industry by the scruff of the neck and get it back out of 'everybody needs to be in this mould and if you're not in this silhouette of that's what a pop star should be then you're not getting in'.

"There's artists out there that are breaking the mould. Adele's a perfect example. Six Grammys.

"If she'd have probably gone on one of those shows, maybe they would have taken her at face value and gone 'uh-oh'. Not on The Voice."

The Voice launhces on Saturday 24 March on BBC1, the very same night as the return of Britain's Got Talent on the other side. Here are its stars at yesterday's launch:

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  • The Voice is making itself heard with a high-profile launch ahead of its first episode on BBC1 on Saturday 24 March. Pictures: PA


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Peggy Kendrick
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05:39 PM on 03/13/2012
"What's your name?"
"Bob Dylan."
"What are you going to sing for us today, Bob?"
"A song I wrote called Like A Rolling Stone."
Simon grimaces but says, "Okay, Bob. Let's hear it."
Bob sings first line.
Simon stops him and asks for a vote and all four "judges" say no.
Bob keeps his day job. The whole world suffers, except Simon, who makes a few more million.
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buster1949
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11:02 AM on 03/13/2012
Thank God she did not go on, mind she still would have made it ! A great no nonsence singer! good talent, good voice, and sence of humour! Brill
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Melboy24
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02:23 PM on 03/13/2012
Don't think she would have got through for one reason...She's got TALENT ! something that most of them that get through are still searching for..
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Swanty
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10:30 AM on 03/13/2012
I don't suppose Amy Winehouse would have fared too well on the X Factor either. We just have to accept that the programme's main function is not about finding talent but building Simon Cowell's bank balance and keeping Louis Walsh in a job.
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speelingmistake
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07:53 PM on 03/12/2012
More likely she would have been eliminated because of the format. The X Factor demands contestants do a different style of music every week - artists like Adele who do one thing very well get kicked out for not being able to do a dance track.
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Johnowen
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02:23 PM on 03/12/2012
I had heard of the Script, but not of Danny O'Donoghue.

Adele has sold more records than the script, but they are not a bad sounding group
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Ben Wilson
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12:38 PM on 03/12/2012
No question about it. Who out everyone that have ever graced the X factor stage is a true talent. Even when they arguably are like Leona, Simon gets bored fast. There is already a large list of people of applied to the show and didn't even get to see the judges who have gone on to have good careers, such a Mika, although Cowell himself have him the boot.

The truth is the show follows a quota and if for some reason the show found itself with 12 of the best singers ever, they only put 2 on the live show and chances are both would lose out to a novelty act like Wagner. It's the nature of the beast. It is deliberatly tackym simplistic and completly false. It's a bit of froth for a saturday night pretending to be a serious quest for Talent. Talent doesn't sell quite a well as idiots, junkies, stupidity, quirks and the inexplicable for a saturday show on ITV.
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