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x factor ’s Chloe-Jasmine hits back at the HATERS:
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Everyone and their dog has had their say about Chloe-Jasmine, now it this year’s most controversial contestant’s
e’ve just interviewed Chloe-Jasmine Whichello for an hour and a half – three times the length we usually spend with most X Factor contestants. She’s quoted Shakespeare, Jessica Rabbit and a Dr Pepper advert, likened
herself to a tiny bird and an orange and drawn parallels between her body image and the extinction of the dinosaurs. She’s made us laugh with her quick wit, feel distinctly uncomfortable with her cold stare, think philosophically and… and we’re not really sure what’s just happened. Texting a friend afterwards, desperate to sum up our
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experience, we liken it to “nailing down a fart”. If we were baffled about what Chloe is really like before, we’re even more befuddled now. Eccentric, funny (“I’m pregnant with Stevi Richie’s baby!” she cries as she bursts into our studio the morning after Jake Quickenden’s joke about them became headline news) and at times lovely, Chloe can also be
prickly – and we’re not entirely sure she likes us. For that, we can forgive her. Chloe is this year’s X Factor column-inch queen – according to the papers she’s had drug binges, been to sex parties, posed naked for sex-toy websites and, not surprisingly, it’s all really getting to her. So we want to give her a chance to set the record straight. One thing we can
promise is, her ultra-posh accent is real. It doesn’t drop once… apart from when she does one of her seven impressions, of course. Right, let’s go through some of the stories about you. Your ex-boyfriend David Kai Piper said you took drugs and went on booze binges… Disgusting. Absolutely
disgusting. I didn’t date him! We owned a business together. He said I was on a bender in Berlin on my birthday, but I was in Leicester, doing a photo shoot. It upset me so much, it made me feel sick, it made my family feel sick. I’m teetotal. I found out I’m allergic to alcohol about four years ago. If someone cooks with red wine I black out.
Did you go to a Killing Kittens sex party? I thought it was something to do with animal rights. I said, “I’ve never killed a kitten.” I thought it was some weird Satanic ritual. What about you faking being posh? You didn’t sound like you do now on your first X Factor audition, when you were 16… Every time I went on holiday
with my family, people would say, “Why do you talk like that?” People snapped my Versace sunglasses in half. So I thought, “What would these people like to see?” And [slips into her accent from the first audition] so I was like, “Oh my God.” Everything they told me to say, I just said it, in this not-posh accent… I was acting like a walking,
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■ Phew! Finding out she’s safe after the first live shows
talking Barbie doll and I’m ashamed of myself now. How do you respond to people saying you’re fake? I’d love to invite them around for tea. People are so quick to pass judgement, and I swear people are always looking for things to bring me down. And every cell in your body regenerates every seven years, so technically I am a completely different person. Do you feel like you’ve suffered from reverse class prejudice? I think poshism could be likened to sizeism or ageism. I don’t understand why anyone would have a problem with someone speaking properly. I don’t understand why that’s so offensive. I could be like [slips into her not posh-accent again], “Yeah, innit, babe, it’s like well mint being on The X Factor…” What’s the lowest you’ve felt reading about yourself? One night I was crying a lot, for at least five minutes, and Fleur [East] had to get in my bed with me. I was shaking and crying. I’m a decent person and I’ve never done anything to hurt anyone. In the words of Jessica Rabbit, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” Are you flattered people are talking about you, though? I’m not comparing column inches. It is a bit weird when people look at me with pity. They can’t help me, but things that are categorically false have been really hurtful.
What I like to do is translate [the stories] into Portuguese and you’re so intent into translating things, you forget to read them. Cheryl says ignore the haters, Simon says no press is worse than bad press. Who’s right? Cheryl is a public figure who’s gone through the process, but conquered it. If she’d listened to every person who said, “Give up,” she’d be in a completely different pictures place now. of their What do you house, ■ Cheryl and Cheryl undervaluing says Chloe is talk about? it massively. vulnerabele Doughnuts. Pugs, Like by two-thirds. husbands and nerves. That was a bit of She’s always wanting to know a blow, because they’ve how I’m feeling . worked really hard for that house. Cheryl says you’re vulnerable… Taking pictures of my mum’s I really tried my hardest to work, that’s a bit weird, too. toughen myself up over the years. How would your friends I think I’m quite an easy target. and family describe you? “Let’s all beat up the posh girl,” I’m very quiet, actually. someone tweeted me. I suffer from social anxiety. Does it affect your family? As a child, I would faint in public Initially it did. It’s a shock, if places if there were too many someone writes about your child. people there. Or I would just be My mum trawled through Twitter so shy I couldn’t talk to anyone. and was crying. That’s hard. How does it affect you now? Do you feel bad that you’re I’ve had to combat it since the putting them through this? age of five, and you just have No. The thing that perturbed to kind of breathe. I’ve been me the most was people taking listening to [bestselling self-help
I faint with anxiety in public places audiobook] The Secret since I was 16. There are a lot of naked pictures of you – some on a sex toy website… I don’t know why people are so ashamed of their bodies. There’s a lot of money in that. I needed to pay my rent. I got £600 a day for that! Have you always been comfortable naked? No. I’ve been overweight and then, weirdly, I grew like really tall and I was really underweight. When was that? At school. We were made to do three hours of exercise a day – I think I was about 6st. I don’t know how I got to that weight, and people said, “You’re really ill.” I have these weird allergies to things, I have to be careful what I eat. I kind of grew at 13.
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Photographper: Angelo frank. Hair and make-up: Nadine O’toole using Illamasqua. styling: Bronagh Meere. Photos: Eroteme.co.uk; rex features; splashnews.com; xposurephotos.com
■ With her rumoured boyfriend Craig Wiffen
Have you ever felt pressure to lose weight? I’ve been asked on numerous occasions by clients and I’ve never been able to do it. I just don’t want to. [Puts on Swedish accent.] In the end, I just pretended I was Swedish and didn’t understand. It’s been claimed your secret boyfriend is businessman Craig Wiffen. Before the shoot you called him your partner [he also says he’s her boyfriend on his Twitter biog] – is it fair to say you’re in a relationship? I don’t want to discuss my personal life. Isn’t your personal life fair game now you’re on The X Factor? No! Do people want to come to my bedroom and watch everything? I’ll just put a camera in there, it can run after The X Factor. Auditioning for The X Factor twice and appearing on [modelling show] The Face, people might say you just want to be famous… I wouldn’t wish fame upon my worst enemy, I just think it’s important to try new things. I sacrificed a lot to be here. I had to cancel a BIC [razors] campaign, travel to Japan, Hong Kong, Germany. You have to put all your friends to one side. Do you disagree with people saying you’re a novelty act? I don’t know, next week I could juggle with a clown face on and ride a donkey if you wanted me to. In vocal coaching, I’ve had positive remarks about my voice and I’d rather the comments be about my talent and not my looks, my weight or my accent, because it’s not fair. Stop making people out to be freaks when they’re just normal. n Rhiannon Evans
Here’s some other bonkers stuff she told us...
Think of all the people who have died over the years. Poor dinosaurs. I was kicked out of drama class because I was too creative. I think I should’ve been born a man really. A really, really gay man.
My body feels like something I’m renting. It’s a vessel containing a soul and organs.
I had to Google the word orgy, because I thought it was an abbreviation for organic food. It’s not a competition, it’s a vocal showcase. Competition destroys art and we’re all artists.
Imagine if you were an orange and you had Picasso, van Gogh, Pollock and Banksy all painting you.
I feel like a little bird sometimes that’s beating against a cage. I feel like the body is the cage and I’m the bird and I haven’t developed my wings yet. 25 – 31 October 2014 www.heatworld.com 19
■ Good things come in threes
x factor ’s Chloe-Jasmine hits back at the HATERS:
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s e i r o t s y t r a p x e s & g u r The d ! k c i s l e e f y l i made my fam
Everyone and their dog has had their say about Chloe-Jasmine, now it this year’s most controversial contestant’s
e’ve just interviewed Chloe-Jasmine Whichello for an hour and a half – three times the length we usually spend with most X Factor contestants. She’s quoted Shakespeare, Jessica Rabbit and a Dr Pepper advert, likened
herself to a tiny bird and an orange and drawn parallels between her body image and the extinction of the dinosaurs. She’s made us laugh with her quick wit, feel distinctly uncomfortable with her cold stare, think philosophically and… and we’re not really sure what’s just happened. Texting a friend afterwards, desperate to sum up our
14 www.heatworld.com 25 – 31 October 2014
experience, we liken it to “nailing down a fart”. If we were baffled about what Chloe is really like before, we’re even more befuddled now. Eccentric, funny (“I’m pregnant with Stevi Richie’s baby!” she cries as she bursts into our studio the morning after Jake Quickenden’s joke about them became headline news) and at times lovely, Chloe can also be
prickly – and we’re not entirely sure she likes us. For that, we can forgive her. Chloe is this year’s X Factor column-inch queen – according to the papers she’s had drug binges, been to sex parties, posed naked for sex-toy websites and, not surprisingly, it’s all really getting to her. So we want to give her a chance to set the record straight. One thing we can
promise is, her ultra-posh accent is real. It doesn’t drop once… apart from when she does one of her seven impressions, of course. Right, let’s go through some of the stories about you. Your ex-boyfriend David Kai Piper said you took drugs and went on booze binges… Disgusting. Absolutely
disgusting. I didn’t date him! We owned a business together. He said I was on a bender in Berlin on my birthday, but I was in Leicester, doing a photo shoot. It upset me so much, it made me feel sick, it made my family feel sick. I’m teetotal. I found out I’m allergic to alcohol about four years ago. If someone cooks with red wine I black out.
Did you go to a Killing Kittens sex party? I thought it was something to do with animal rights. I said, “I’ve never killed a kitten.” I thought it was some weird Satanic ritual. What about you faking being posh? You didn’t sound like you do now on your first X Factor audition, when you were 16… Every time I went on holiday
with my family, people would say, “Why do you talk like that?” People snapped my Versace sunglasses in half. So I thought, “What would these people like to see?” And [slips into her accent from the first audition] so I was like, “Oh my God.” Everything they told me to say, I just said it, in this not-posh accent… I was acting like a walking,
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■ Phew! Finding out she’s safe after the first live shows
talking Barbie doll and I’m ashamed of myself now. How do you respond to people saying you’re fake? I’d love to invite them around for tea. People are so quick to pass judgement, and I swear people are always looking for things to bring me down. And every cell in your body regenerates every seven years, so technically I am a completely different person. Do you feel like you’ve suffered from reverse class prejudice? I think poshism could be likened to sizeism or ageism. I don’t understand why anyone would have a problem with someone speaking properly. I don’t understand why that’s so offensive. I could be like [slips into her not posh-accent again], “Yeah, innit, babe, it’s like well mint being on The X Factor…” What’s the lowest you’ve felt reading about yourself? One night I was crying a lot, for at least five minutes, and Fleur [East] had to get in my bed with me. I was shaking and crying. I’m a decent person and I’ve never done anything to hurt anyone. In the words of Jessica Rabbit, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” Are you flattered people are talking about you, though? I’m not comparing column inches. It is a bit weird when people look at me with pity. They can’t help me, but things that are categorically false have been really hurtful.
What I like to do is translate [the stories] into Portuguese and you’re so intent into translating things, you forget to read them. Cheryl says ignore the haters, Simon says no press is worse than bad press. Who’s right? Cheryl is a public figure who’s gone through the process, but conquered it. If she’d listened to every person who said, “Give up,” she’d be in a completely different pictures place now. of their What do you house, ■ Cheryl and Cheryl undervaluing says Chloe is talk about? it massively. vulnerabele Doughnuts. Pugs, Like by two-thirds. husbands and nerves. That was a bit of She’s always wanting to know a blow, because they’ve how I’m feeling . worked really hard for that house. Cheryl says you’re vulnerable… Taking pictures of my mum’s I really tried my hardest to work, that’s a bit weird, too. toughen myself up over the years. How would your friends I think I’m quite an easy target. and family describe you? “Let’s all beat up the posh girl,” I’m very quiet, actually. someone tweeted me. I suffer from social anxiety. Does it affect your family? As a child, I would faint in public Initially it did. It’s a shock, if places if there were too many someone writes about your child. people there. Or I would just be My mum trawled through Twitter so shy I couldn’t talk to anyone. and was crying. That’s hard. How does it affect you now? Do you feel bad that you’re I’ve had to combat it since the putting them through this? age of five, and you just have No. The thing that perturbed to kind of breathe. I’ve been me the most was people taking listening to [bestselling self-help
I faint with anxiety in public places audiobook] The Secret since I was 16. There are a lot of naked pictures of you – some on a sex toy website… I don’t know why people are so ashamed of their bodies. There’s a lot of money in that. I needed to pay my rent. I got £600 a day for that! Have you always been comfortable naked? No. I’ve been overweight and then, weirdly, I grew like really tall and I was really underweight. When was that? At school. We were made to do three hours of exercise a day – I think I was about 6st. I don’t know how I got to that weight, and people said, “You’re really ill.” I have these weird allergies to things, I have to be careful what I eat. I kind of grew at 13.
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The mad, mad world of
news
Chloe-Jasmine
Photographper: Angelo frank. Hair and make-up: Nadine O’toole using Illamasqua. styling: Bronagh Meere. Photos: Eroteme.co.uk; rex features; splashnews.com; xposurephotos.com
■ With her rumoured boyfriend Craig Wiffen
Have you ever felt pressure to lose weight? I’ve been asked on numerous occasions by clients and I’ve never been able to do it. I just don’t want to. [Puts on Swedish accent.] In the end, I just pretended I was Swedish and didn’t understand. It’s been claimed your secret boyfriend is businessman Craig Wiffen. Before the shoot you called him your partner [he also says he’s her boyfriend on his Twitter biog] – is it fair to say you’re in a relationship? I don’t want to discuss my personal life. Isn’t your personal life fair game now you’re on The X Factor? No! Do people want to come to my bedroom and watch everything? I’ll just put a camera in there, it can run after The X Factor. Auditioning for The X Factor twice and appearing on [modelling show] The Face, people might say you just want to be famous… I wouldn’t wish fame upon my worst enemy, I just think it’s important to try new things. I sacrificed a lot to be here. I had to cancel a BIC [razors] campaign, travel to Japan, Hong Kong, Germany. You have to put all your friends to one side. Do you disagree with people saying you’re a novelty act? I don’t know, next week I could juggle with a clown face on and ride a donkey if you wanted me to. In vocal coaching, I’ve had positive remarks about my voice and I’d rather the comments be about my talent and not my looks, my weight or my accent, because it’s not fair. Stop making people out to be freaks when they’re just normal. n Rhiannon Evans
Here’s some other bonkers stuff she told us...
Think of all the people who have died over the years. Poor dinosaurs. I was kicked out of drama class because I was too creative. I think I should’ve been born a man really. A really, really gay man.
My body feels like something I’m renting. It’s a vessel containing a soul and organs.
I had to Google the word orgy, because I thought it was an abbreviation for organic food. It’s not a competition, it’s a vocal showcase. Competition destroys art and we’re all artists.
Imagine if you were an orange and you had Picasso, van Gogh, Pollock and Banksy all painting you.
I feel like a little bird sometimes that’s beating against a cage. I feel like the body is the cage and I’m the bird and I haven’t developed my wings yet. 25 – 31 October 2014 www.heatworld.com 19
