Former X Factor star Rebecca Ferguson has pleaded with fans to not strive to become famous and labels it a 'brilliant distraction' from real life as it's an illusion

The singer, who took part in The X Factor alongside Liam Payne's band One Direction, has spoken out in the past about duty of care on TV shows.

Rebecca Ferguson said she had attempted to contact her former X Factor co-star Liam Payne a week before his death because she had been “worried about him for a while”. The singer-songwriter, who appeared in the final of The X Factor with One Direction in 2010,