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"Example has revealed that a Twitter user once &amp;quot;threatened to set [him] on fire&amp;quot;. The &amp;#039;Say Nothing&amp;#039; singer described the abuse he receives online as &amp;quot;really scathing&amp;quot;, but accepted that he couldn&amp;#039;t complain about criticism given his own &amp;quot;outspoken&amp;quot; nature.  &amp;quot;Generally people are complimentary, although sometimes they don&amp;#039;t like you and want to let you know about it,&amp;quot; he told Metro.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been quite outspoken about other artists, so I can&amp;#039;t expect people not to be honest about how they feel about me.  &amp;quot;You just shrug your shoulders and get on with it. Some people leave Twitter because they can&amp;#039;t take the abuse. It can be really scathing on Twitter - someone threatened to set me on fire.&amp;quot; Example - real name Elliot Gleave - also suggested that his attacks on the likes of Alexandra Burke and Cher Lloyd occurred because he &amp;quot;wasn&amp;#039;t happy&amp;quot; with how fame had changed him.  &amp;quot;I was never the most popular guy at school,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;I wasn&amp;#039;t hated, but I wasn&amp;#039;t Mr Popular, so when I found fame I got a lot more attention from the opposite sex and people wanting to be my mate. I got carried away, so had to go back and find &amp;#039;the real Elliot&amp;#039; - as rubbish as that sounds. &amp;quot;Maybe I [attacked celebrities] before because I wasn&amp;#039;t happy... after a while you realise it&amp;#039;s better to keep it to yourself. You invariably bump into them.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d slag someone off and then the next week their management would ask me to feature on a song with them.&amp;quot; Example today (November 16) debuted new track &amp;#039;Perfect Replacement&amp;#039;, lifted from his upcoming album The Evolution On Man. Watch the Example - &amp;#039;Close Enemies&amp;#039; video below:      Latest celebrity pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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