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"Dannii Minogue has been backed by her X Factor co-stars after being reduced to tears live on air following a row with Louis Walsh. The pair exchanged heated words on last night&amp;#039;s live show after Walsh claimed that his fellow judge had &amp;quot;stolen&amp;quot; a song that he wanted to secure for his boyband JLS. The track in question, Take That&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Rule The World&amp;#039;, was given to Rachel Hylton as Minogue had first choice as part of a rota system drawn up between the mentors. After the ITV1 programme returned from a commercial break, Minogue had broken down in tears and was unable to introduce Hylton&amp;#039;s performance. Speaking later on ITV2 spinoff The Xtra Factor, Simon Cowell insisted: &amp;quot;Dannii did exactly what I would do, which is choose the right song for the artist and if Louis doesn&amp;#039;t like it, tough!  &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s no point pointing fingers at Dannii saying that she stole the song. She didn&amp;#039;t steal the song, she had the right to choose that song and [she] did the right thing for Rachel. Next week, we change the order again - that&amp;#039;s the way it goes.&amp;quot;  Earlier this month, Minogue admitted that she was trying to put on a brave face after receiving &amp;quot;taunts&amp;quot; in the press this year. Asked for her take on the argument, Hylton said: &amp;quot;Leave Dannii alone. It was a rota system. I think it&amp;#039;s really unfair that you keep having these bad jibes at me and my mentor. It&amp;#039;s not on. We&amp;#039;re people and we&amp;#039;ve got feelings too. I just want people to leave my mentor alone - she&amp;#039;s a lovely woman.&amp;quot; The programme&amp;#039;s host Holly Willoughby added: &amp;quot;She is a lovely lady and she&amp;#039;s strong as well. I think the good thing about tonight is that no one thinks Dannii was in the wrong.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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