Simon Cowell’s singing hopefuls wreak havoc in Marbella

TV’s ‘Mr Nasty’ is currently in Marbella as his X-Factor hopefuls take part in the boot camp stage of the contest. However, it seems the bunch have taken advantage of Simon’s hospitality as they’re rumoured to have ‘trashed’his Spanish residence.

Marbella sees stars of the stage and screen grace its shores each summer and over the years, no-nonsense X-Factor judge, Simon has been one of the town’s most regular celebrity visitors.

A bad name

This summer, Simon has rented a huge 20-bedroom villa, in which he will mentor his group of budding performers, at 15,000 per day – not exactly cheap! So it’s surprising that after a late-night session of drinking, the hopefuls decided to trash the place on Sunday 29 August. However, with band names such as Rogues, Sugar Bullet, Husstle and Princes, perhaps this was on the cards all along…

Thankfully, real A-listers, Michelle and Sasha Obama visited Marbella just a few weeks ago, generating positive publicity and helping to increase tourism figures in the town but thanks to the X-Factor contestants’ disgraceful behaviour a few days ago, the tone has been lowered.

Bands behaving badly

According to UK newspapers, the contestants raided Simon’s bar then guzzled expensive champagne and his favourite, specially-imported Japanese beers before heading to the sea for a drunken swim. Once back at the villa, the paraletic popstar wannabes stumbled over antique and designer furniture, destroying a £5,000 Persian rug with sand and sea water, which later had to be scrubbed by TV aides.

When Simon discovered what had happened the following morning, he was far from impressed. It seems the group’s premature rock-star antics will cost them money, as Simon will make sure the damage will be covered by the culprits’ first royalty cheques if they win the show. Hopefully that’s a lesson learned!

A source told the press: ‘It was chaos and the contestants were very excited but things got out of hand. Simon was disappointed with the lack of respect for the house and his hospitality.’