Cowell hits out at pushy parents of X Factor contestant

Simon Cowell hits out at the pushy parents of an X Factor contestant on tonight's show.

Emma Chawner, 17, brings her biggest fans, her mother, father and older sister, to her audition.

The teenager from Ramsbottom, Lancashire, believes she has what it takes because "I've been told by my mum and dad that I'm really good."

Chawner's mother confesses to the ITV show that they have "literally pushed her and pushed her and got her to sing like a star.

"She's definitely got the gift," she says.

Her father made the teenager her own show-stopping outfit which took him two days to sew.

But Chawner's version of the Celine Dion classic My Heart Will Go On does not impress the judges.

She fluffs her lines halfway through the performance and says she cannot go on.

Cowell says that is "good", adding: "I'm not a fashion expert but for starters that dress is completely wrong and then you sang out of tune and it sounded like a baby."

The dejected teenager walks out after the other judges agree with Cowell and Chawner's family head into the audition room to get an explanation.

A tearful Chawner is left out in the corridor.

But Cowell is in no mood to face the angry parents and cuts them off before they have a chance to speak.

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Cowell is in no mood to face Emma Chawner's angry parents and cuts them off before they have a chance to speak on tonight's show

He tells them: "If you are coming in here to give me a hard time then you've got to take a good look at yourselves.

"You are the reason why this girl is disappointed and I have to blame you guys for encouraging her to believe she's going to do well in something when she so obviously isn't. You have given her false hope.

"People who've won a rosette at a donkey derby don't go on to win the grand national, your daughter cannot sing," he says.

Judges also see Raj Singh Dharmu, from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, who has spent his £50,000 savings on his attempt to become a star.

Cowell tells the contestant, who gave up his job as a pharmacist to follow his dream: "Raj, go back to the pharmacy and save your money.

"There is as much chance of you being a pop or rock star as me flying to the moon tomorrow morning for breakfast."

Another contestant, Barbara Bryceland, 42, from Falkirk in Scotland, auditions after her husband walked out on her two months ago without warning, saying he no longer loved her.

She says she is chasing her dream after putting it on hold during the marriage.

The judges are impressed with Bryceland's rendition of Barbra Streisand's Somewhere, with Cowell dubbing it "a musical up yours".

In other scenes, Cowell demands that fellow judges Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne leave the audition room because they cannot stop giggling at one of the acts.

One male contestant arrives to audition wearing a "Sharon Osbourne" wig.

Cowell says: "It's my worst nightmare, Sharon Osbourne becomes a contestant."

The sixth show in the new series of The X Factor is broadcast tonight at 6.25pm on ITV1.