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"Dannii Minogue has claimed that her X Factor acts haven&amp;#039;t been &amp;quot;controversial&amp;quot; enough. Minogue, who mentors the girls in this year&amp;#039;s series, lost two acts in a row when Rachel Adedeji and Lucie Jones were voted off the programme. Stacey Solomon is her only remaining contestant. Speaking to The Sun, Minogue claimed that more controversial acts receive more press coverage and are more likely to do well on the show. &amp;quot;They are beautiful, beautiful girls but maybe that is not enough,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I knew when it went to deadlock [last week] there would be trouble because John &amp;amp; Edward had been on the cover of all the newspapers and magazines that week.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;There was no controversy with Lucie. Maybe it&amp;#039;s not enough to be nice and beautiful and sing well and be hard-working and turn up and not cause any problems. Maybe you&amp;#039;re meant to cause a lot of problems and controversy and get the headlines.&amp;quot; Minogue added that she had blamed herself for Lucie&amp;#039;s exit from the competition. &amp;quot;The first thing was that I was just disappointed in myself,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;What didn&amp;#039;t I show about Lucie which left her in the position where she hadn&amp;#039;t got enough votes? I was angry with myself because I hadn&amp;#039;t done the job well enough. That performance and the one before - I felt she&amp;#039;d really arrived, but it was too late.&amp;quot; However, the judge said that she is on speaking terms with fellow judge Simon Cowell despite earlier reports that they had fallen out. &amp;quot;I spoke to [Cowell] yesterday and he says that it was a decision that he made in the heat of the moment and if he ends up with Jedward for the recording act then that&amp;#039;s what he ends up with,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;But he still stands by his decision and I&amp;#039;ve just got to go out there and fight harder. &amp;quot;I would never have done what he did but I guess at the time you make a decision and you have to live by that. And he certainly is living by it this week - he&amp;#039;s finding it a bit uncomfortable. But I would say to everybody in the country, &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t get angry, get voting!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; The X Factor continues tonight at 8pm on ITV1. &amp;gt; Minogue &amp;#039;may quit if twins beat Solomon&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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