Nutini: 'Simon Cowell can't be trusted'

Paolo Nutini has claimed that Leon Jackson should have expected to be dropped by Simon Cowell.

Jackson was axed by Cowell's SyCo record label last week, just fifteen months after his triumph on ITV1 talent show The X Factor.

Scottish singer Nutini has now responded to the news by suggesting that Jackson was wrong to anticipate a long-term career following his victory.

"A lot of people on these shows are lucky to get a second album out," Nutini told the Daily Record.

"I don't know much about Leon Jackson, but I wish him all the best. But he must have known the nature of that TV show when he walked into the audition."

Jackson recently revealed that he had received no contact from Cowell - and did not know he had been dropped until he read about it in a newspaper.

Nutini added: "Simon Cowell is not someone I would trust with my career because, to him, you are just a little fish in a big bowl.

"I have never met him, but The X Factor is about being in it to win it. I'd see it as a hindrance to have the expectation that comes with winning."