Daniel Evans has defended his corner and smashes rumours that he used a ’sob story’ about his late wife to keep him in the show.
Evans wife sadly died soon after she gave birth to their first child. Before she passed away she had always tried to encourage Daniel to enter the X Factor but nothing ever came of it. She got all the required paper work to submit Daniel to the show and it wasn’t until after she died and he started to move her belongings he found the paper work. He felt it was his wife’s wish to enter the show and therefore showed up for the auditions.
Daniel was the under dog from the beginning and consistently received negative comments from Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell but still managed to hang on until this Saturday (week six of the live shows).
“When people were saying I had a sob story and I was using my wife’s death, that did hurt me a little bit, I would never play on it and I mentioned her because I was asked.”
The rumors began when during a sing off in one of the earlier live shows he dedicated his rendition of Josh Groban’s ‘To Where You Are’ to his wife.
“I honestly thought it would be the last time I ever sang on the show and the producers said, ‘You should sing something that’s really important to you’,” he explained.
“I sang a song for my wife because she got me onto the show so it’s only fair that I said goodbye on that note.”