X Factor exclusive: Secrets of the winner's '£1million contract'

The truth behind the X factor contract revealed.
The contract X factor finalists have to sigh before Saturday night’s show is quite ridiculous. First of all, the promised record deal of £1 million is not true. The winner will get a £150k upfront for their first album to pay their expenses. This is revealed by the Mirror, who got to see the contract and looked in on all 80 pages. The presenter of the show said that the winner would get a million pounds so this is highly misleading. 1 million is not he prize, it is the record deal. This means that the recording is funded by this 1 million pounds. So all the costs of the best producers and the marketing costs using the best video directors will be paid for this 1 million. There probably won’t be much left.
The finalists are expected to read this complicated, 80 pages long contract in just 3 days. And they’re supposed to read it carefully. The contract contains hundreds of clauses and some of them are quite bizarre like clause 32.4 : artists must not make any statement which “may be considered unduly negative, critical or derogatory of the Company – including its personnel and, in particular, Simon Cowell”.
More of these things make this contract quite doubtful.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/latest/2008/12/10/x-factor-exclusive-secrets-of-the-winner-s-1million-contract-115875-20959077/

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This article confirms a lot of bad rumors going on about the show business I think. It is always said that the show bizz is as corrupt as can be and this is even a official article, not just a rumor. It’s a shame that it has to be like that. The only good thing these silly programs have, is also taken away. The winner of this X factor thing could actually be given a fabulous life of which he or she probably dreams about and such a stupid contract gives that dream a quite nasty twist. It’s a shame that even in such a rich country people can’t even do what they are promised. It’s highly misleading. But on the other hand. I can’t really bother. It’s a problem that doesn’t really exist because you chose for it yourself. The people attending X factor should have thought of it earlier. It’s a silly program anyway.