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"Rylan Clark&amp;#039;s mother has spoken about her son&amp;#039;s reported death threats. The 23-year-old singer recently revealed that he has received threatening messages from members of the public since he first appeared on The X Factor.  His mother Linda described the threats as &amp;quot;awful&amp;quot;, but hopes her son can rise above them. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been told he&amp;#039;s had death threats, it&amp;#039;s awful,&amp;quot; she told The Sun. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t understand why people would do that. He is more concerned about me though, and if I&amp;#039;m alright. I&amp;#039;ve told him not to worry. &amp;quot;Every year there is someone that people have to pick on, I just hope they&amp;#039;ll leave him alone soon, and his personality will win people over.&amp;quot; Linda Clark - who has been diagnosed with severe Crohn&amp;#039;s disease - added that she doesn&amp;#039;t understand how her son could be hated. &amp;quot;Rylan has worked so hard to get this far, he&amp;#039;ll tell you himself that he&amp;#039;s not the best singer in the competition, but he can sing and he is such a good entertainer,&amp;quot; she said.  &amp;quot;He is a brilliant, lovely person, everyone who knows him well idolises him, and the family are all behind him. We are so proud of him. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve spoken to him about the horrible things being said on Twitter - it is hard for him. &amp;quot;But I&amp;#039;ve told him not to let it affect him, and definitely not to answer back as it only gives people ammunition.&amp;quot; Rylan Clark has been chosen by Nicole Scherzinger as one of the three Boys to reach the Live Shows of this year&amp;#039;s X Factor. The X Factor Live Shows launch this weekend on ITV1. X Factor Live Shows top 12 - photo gallery:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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