The Voice star Max Vickers blasts The X Factor in a scathing rant as he accuses his former show of ‘using’ contestants

THE Voice’s Max Vickers has hit out The X Factor, accusing the show of “using people”.

The 24-year-old semi-finalist’s first brush with reality TV was on The X Factor in 2011, but he only made it as far as Judges’ Houses after Gary Barlow decided to put through controversial Frankie Cocozza instead.

Now Max has told The Daily Star that he is treated much better on The Voice, saying: “On X Factor they used you and it didn’t feel right. The Voice is more respectable.

“The whole process feels better. Here you get more creativity. You feel like you have more freedom to do what you want, song choices and everything.”

He also feels that contestants benefit much more from the coaching on The Voice than they do on Simon Cowell’s show.

Max explained: “I thought the whole coach thing was just going to be for TV on The Voice but Gavin has been so hands-on and more involved than I had hoped.”

And despite saying he wants to “lose the X Factor tag”, he does admit he regrets tweeting: “F*** Gary Barlow” in 2014.

He said: “I wrote it a while ago but I can’t imagine Gary is sitting up and saying, ‘I can’t believe what Max said about me five years ago.’”

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