Simon Cowell VS Lily Allen – Singer Slams X Factor On Twitter

Simon Cowell has hit back at Lily Allen after she criticised his decision to let finalist Fleur East sing Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars song that hadn’t been released yet.

As Fleur performed Uptown Funk Lily tweeted, ‘Is this even out yet? #XFactor ... Well done to @sony for managing to get a not yet released song of theirs sung on prime time weekend telly. #uptownfunk #shazam #airplay'

'It is an amazing song and Fleur did it justice but it's still a great example of music industry corruption. #uptown funk'

The track was not due to come out until January 11th, however, after Fleur’s rendition stormed the iTunes chart Mark pulled the release date forward.

Now Simon has spoken out about his anger at her comments, he said: ‘The irony is I spoke to Lily about being a judge and from what I took from the meeting, she was seriously considering it. Thank God I said no.

'Why not be happy for another artist and say congratulations instead of thinking of some conspiracy theory.

Fleur herself commented on the controversy saying: ‘Yeah I'm really sorry but all I can say is it's props to all their creative hard work because it's an amazing song.'

'I don't know what they were thinking in their minds. I don't think anyone expected my performance to be as popular as it was. We didn't expect it to go to number one on iTunes.'

Lily later removed her tweet and retweeted Fleur as she celebrated her rise to iTunes success. Sadly we don’t think this is going to appease Mr.Cowell…