On Thursday, Charlotte took to Twitter to tell fans that she had been asked to be a judge on the talent show but that she’d rather ‘poke [her] eyes out with sticks than be a part of the machine that kills music’.
A source for the ITV show has since hit back and revealed:
‘She met producers at the beginning of the year but it was a very brief chat and they decided not to progress things. It was clear straightaway that she wasn’t right.’
‘She was quite frankly, boring and she was never high on the priority list as there were far bigger names producers were looking at.’
Yesterday saw the singer’s management and X Factor locked in a row over the truth.
Charlotte’s manager Rhiannon Morgan-Bell, who is said to have been present at the meeting in question, denied the claims and said:
'The X Factor team chatted with her in depth and said that they'd love her to be one of the judges.’
Rhiannon said that Charlotte had agreed to contact producers once she had made a decision, but the singer decided that she wasn’t interested.
It is said that Charlotte had complained that she wasn’t content with the amount of creative involvement she would have as a judge.
Sharon Osbourne has now returned to the panel as the fourth judge for this series and replaces Tulisa Contostavlos.
She joins Louis Walsh, Nicole Scherzinger and Gary Barlow at X Factor bootcamp this week, held at Wembley Arena.