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" Joe McElderry has expressed surprise at being voted the ultimate X Factor act by Digital Spy readers.  The 21-year-old, who won the sixth series of X Factor in 2009, topped a poll made up of 27,000 DS users back in September.      Speaking to Digital Spy ahead of his one-off charity performance of rock musical Tommy, McElderry thanked fans for the &amp;quot;very flattering&amp;quot; accolade, but admitted he had no idea why he had been picked.  &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t really compare myself to anybody else that&amp;#039;s been on the show, but it&amp;#039;s nice to know people have voted us as that,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Very flattering.  &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know why they would have picked me, but thanks a lot anyway guys.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;The show was a brilliant part of my life and I would do it all over again, and to see that I was appreciated on the show is really nice.  &amp;quot;I just wanna keep getting better and progressing more, and that obviously proves I&amp;#039;m doing something right, I think.&amp;quot;   [Left: McElderry in Tommy / Right: With Cheryl Cole on X Factor in 2009] However, McElderry also stated that he is &amp;quot;not the best of friends&amp;quot; with X Factor boss Simon Cowell after being dropped from his Syco label in April 2011. &amp;quot;Simon, we&amp;#039;re not the best of friends, but I don&amp;#039;t think anybody that works with him is best of friends with him,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;If we see each other at an event we would chat, we would catch up, but I don&amp;#039;t call him. It was a working relationship... it&amp;#039;s nothing more than that really.&amp;quot; McElderry will appear in Tommy at the Prince Edward Theatre on Monday, November 12.  Tickets range from \u00A315 to \u00A350, with \u00A365 premium seats and a \u00A3125 VIP package also available. They can be purchased from the Delfont Mackintosh Theatres website.  Watch Joe McElderry talk about his role in Tommy below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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