This is one post I really hoped I would never have to write but I think it needs to be written. It is 25th August 2011 and 5 days after the first auditions of the X Factor were aired. I like many watched as a young lady called Kitty Brucknell was sent through to boot camp, and since then she has managed to dominate the headlines for what I see as all the wrong reasons.

Kitty Brucknell aka Kimberly Dayle is an attractive 26 year old girl from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire …. so why is she making so much news? Well it began with the fact that she is a professional entertainer, although the X Factor say different, but the fact remains she is. Anyone who knows Kitty will know that she has numerous TV appearances credited to her as well as being seen in the film “Britney Spears Saved My Life”. As has been reported she has been a Britney Spears Tribute for many years hoping to attain the status of her idol. She also does tributes to Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera, in fact her audition song was a Lady Gaga track.

Watching her audition people used the word quirky to describe her, but I prefer the word manic. I have re-watched the audition and her eyes to me are like those of a rabbit in the headlights, it isn’t nerves or stage fright she has been a professional too long, it is almost like the maniacal gleam of a James Bond villain about to grab world domination. It is a look that I hope I don’t see again in others in the entertainment industry.

We had the reports of her as a honey-trap, and reports of a near breakdown at the boot camp. The honey trap is merely inconsequential, the breakdown isn’t. We have seen how she has done everything possible to be noticed on TV no matter what the show to get exposure, to try and fulfill her dream to follow Britney Spears, some 33 shows yet it never really happened, that Britney moment just didn’t materialise.

We have seen almost a fixation, to try and look like Britney, and that to me is unhealthy mentally. To that end we now learn of £3000.00 of liposuction to remove 6 litres of fat and carry out some sculpting in 2009. Those who know Kitty / Kimberly know she has never been fat, and we accept that cosmetic surgery is normal for many people but not to the degree of trying to be someone else, unless you were Michael Jackson. We have also learnt of her use of illegal hormone drug hCG. As can be seen on Facebook she shows her super-skinny torso and praises the drug hCG.

In June last year she wrote: “Oh my god. I’ve lost 2 inches from my hips in five days. This diet rules.” She added: “hCG. It’s amazing.” In October she said: “Want a big bowl of pasta to cheer me up but I can’t…Thinking about how thin I’m going to be.” “This diet will literally CHANGE YOUR LIFE. All of those who knows me…it freaking works,” she boasted in December. She added: “I have a six-pack…omg didn’t even have this with lipo. hCG Rules.”

A post in May said “In response to a million texts last night… No I did not see BGT, no, it wasn’t me on there. Have not LOLd so much in a while. Looks like someone needs the HCG diet!”

And in June she said she could not wait “to get to a size zero” adding: “I’m not pressured at all. But I love how my body looks as a 0……hCG all the way.”

Also in June she said the following which points to almost obsession with a touch of jealousy “Just saw a certain x factor winner perform at Westfield…all I can say is that damn I wish I had the same production and backing she does. Take all that away… And you have a cute girl with a nice voice. Kind of depressing and a bit gutted. Wiggling your hips to a song doesn’t make you a superstar…but £10 million quid and Simon Cowell will.

July saw “Just a little over one month since I came back from America as fat as god knows what… and I’m back to my yummy flat tummy! Have joined virgin active – can’t wait to start working out again. I reckon in another month will have Gaga abs!!! thank u once again HCG!!!!”

It is illegal to sell hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) or homeopathic versions, which Kitty claims to take, as a slimming aid. But it is sold in drops, pills and sprays on the net.

It is reported that a close source to Kitty / Kimberly said that the use of the drug lasted only a month and that she was unaware it was illegal yet the time frame of a year very much contradicts that.

I was under the impression that contestants underwent medical and psychiatric screening so why was this obsession picked up. It is a problem, an illness like anorexia or bulimia or self harming, and it needs redressing.

Kitty is getting the wrong type of publicity, she is an influence on others many of whom will be children. Entertainers used to be role models and this is not setting standards it is destroying them. It is damaging to the profession and to the already badly tarnished name of the X Factor.

It is now time to call a halt and say enough is enough. Katy / Kimberly is at heart a wonderful decent person but in pursuing this she is destroying herself. I want to see her achieve great things not fame for part of her on the operating room floor because what is left after may not be the best bits.

I understand people wanting fame but if you do it wrong the price paid is always far too high. I like Kimberly, and she can turn all this around, like anyone who cares about the profession and others I want the best for her.

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