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"Steve Brookstein has argued with One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson&amp;#039;s mum on Twitter. The former X Factor winner caught Tomlinson&amp;#039;s mum&amp;#039;s attention after he started criticising the boyband star&amp;#039;s first audition, describing him as the &amp;quot;luckiest man in music&amp;quot; for landing a record deal. When the Doncaster singer&amp;#039;s mum saw the tweets, she replied: &amp;quot;Hi I&amp;#039;m Louis&amp;#039;s mum. My family have always liked you and bought your records. Why be so cruel? &amp;quot;Why shame him in public? He was sad about his audition. He was incredibly nervous. Listen to his YouTube. &amp;quot;He is 18 Steve! I honestly thought you were a nice bloke. Sadly for us now what we were told about you seems accurate.&amp;quot; Brookstein replied to her remarks by telling her to buy her son some singing lessons. &amp;quot;If you are Louis&amp;#039;s mum. Get the poor lad some singing lessons for Christmas. A couple of dozen at least,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve heard his YouTube. Auto-Tune all over it. I don&amp;#039;t blame him. I blame Simon [Cowell] for putting him in the public eye. &amp;quot;If he was a builder he wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to work on a house. He would need to learn his trade. Why do you think this is ok? Listen, he is a rouge trader. A Mickey Mouse cowboy builder. Don&amp;#039;t blame me for exposing his poor workmanship. End of.&amp;quot; He later tweeted Tomlinson directly, advising him: &amp;quot;You have a great opportunity. Take singing lessons and become a proper singer. Work on your breathing and support.&amp;quot; However, he also questioned how the teenager got his position in One Direction, commenting: &amp;quot;There should be an enquiry over show fixing. He is shockingly terrible. It&amp;#039;s like Les Dawson comedy bad.&amp;quot; Tomlinson appeared unfazed by the row, tweeting Brookstein back the short response: &amp;quot;Steve you&amp;#039;re my idol!&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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