(Thursday August 21, 2008 04:34 PM)
ITV has denied putting pressure on an X Factor contestant to speak on the show about a spate of apparent suicides in her home county.
The television company said that Alexandra Davies, 17, who appeared on Saturday's show, "talked openly and candidly" and had not raised any concerns about her interview.
Alexandra is from Bridgend, south Wales, where 23 young people in or from the county are believed to have killed themselves since January 2007.
She was voted through to the next round on Saturday after singing Eva Cassidy's Fields Of Gold.
The show's host Dermot O'Leary introduced her to viewers by saying: "Alex's hometown of Bridgend hit the press recently after a shocking spate of youth suicides.
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