David Cameron has revealed he has only voted in a reality TV programme once, when he plumped for Will Young over Gareth Gates in the final of Pop Idol.
"I think I did vote for Will Young once in X Factor" - actually, it was Pop Idol - "because my daughter made me," he told journalists at a lunch in Westminster on Monday.
The only problem with that anecdote? Young won Pop Idol in 2002. Nancy, the prime minister's daughter, was born in 2004.
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Let's remember what Nancy Cameron did not watch: