X Factor’s Stevi Ritchie has discussed his “sex god” reputation and racy backstage rumours.
During an exclusive Facebook Live chat with showbiz reporter Carly Hacon, he opened up about his TV persona and him allegedly bonking a dancer backstage.
Stevi, 41, discussed TV mentors Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh branding him a “sex god”.
he said: “I was single in X Factor and ‘sex god ‘ I mean, yeah women used to say ‘sex? god…’
“I don’t know it was a name that got stuck with me because there were a lot of rumours that said I went off with dancers and honestly the truth is I had a wee and everyone thought I went off and went somewhere but I didn’t.
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“Two minutes before the doors opened and it went live, I went for a wee, but that was what the rumours were because they thought I went off with such and such but then it stuck and Simon said ‘you’re my guilty pleasure, you’re the sex god, Stevi Ritchie.'”
He added: “But yeah, the nerves got the better of me and there were 10 million viewers and you’ve got to remember so much so I buggered off and then I came back and that’s how the rumours started about randy Ritchie and everything else.”
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Talking about the attention he got post-show, he said: “Well, I got a lot of attention but I wouldn’t say they were throwing themselves at me, more like throwing themselves away from me actually.
“Of course, social media and all that went right up and I got a lot of attention from it as with any TV programme, it’s nice to get that wanting-ness and being liked.”
Though he did recall an X Factor stalker who followed the cast absolutely everywhere.
“There was a certain woman in general who kept following every single X Factor act on tour, if we were at a hotel they knew which one we were at before we even turned up. Every venue, every place, wherever we went she was there,” Stevi said.
Stevi competed on the ITV singing show and came in sixth in the competition.
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