X-FACTOR contestant Chloe-Jasmine Whichello, who grew up in Poole, has lost her place in the X-Factor.

The singer, who was booted off the live shows on Sunday, lived in Poole and attended The Park School, an independent prep school in Bournemouth, before going on to Canford School in Wimborne.

Chloe spoke to the Echo back in 2006, aged 17, after her first disastrous attempt to get selected on the show.

A posing, pouting Chloe, controversially speaking with a less plummy accent than she has now, was called “a parents’ worst nightmare” by Simon Cowell.

At the time she said: “It was awful and not at all like they showed, the whole thing is just so edited. One of the producers encouraged me to wear a pink hat and was egging me on, telling me to pout more and pose more. I realise now that they were just trying to make a spectacle of me."

The 24-year-old has also thanked Christchurch-based drama and elocution teacher Tina Witham for helping perfect her now-renowned speaking voice.

Chloe took to social media with the message: ‘Miracle worker Tina Witham... the tip of the tongue, the teeth, the lips x’ Tina gave her elocution lessons at school to cure her of her lisp when she was around 10 years old.

Chloe also attended drama classes at Tina’s Swish of the Curtain Theatre School – even performing in their production of Fame at Bournemouth Pavilion.

Speaking about her former pupil she said she was “a lovely enthusiastic, sparkly child,” who is “highly intelligent and very effervescent.” She said she used to occasionally get upset about her speech and “worked terribly hard daily to cure her lisp.”

She added: “I’m not a believer in quick stardom – the journey is important, but I believe Chloe is one of those people who will thrive. She is a good actress, singer and has excellent diction – all three things you need!”

Despite being voted out by the X Factor judges in the second week of the live finals, Chloe said she felt she felt she had “redeemed herself”.

Speaking on the Xtra Factor she said she “honestly did not think” she would “get past the first audition.” She told viewers she would now “take each day at a time, and see what the future brings."