Rhyd's parents slam 'X Factor' editing

Rhydian Roberts' parents have complained about the way X Factor producers have cast their son as "Mr Nasty".

A recent report revealed that Rhydian was angry with the show's team for portraying him as a "pantomime villain".

Now the opera singer's dad Malcolm Roberts and his mother Angela have claimed that producers created the "baddie" storyline because Rhydian does not have a "sob story".

"How he's been portrayed is not the Rhydian we know," Malcolm told the Sunday Mirror. "Rhyd is hard-working, doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs, so there is little to pick on and no obvious sob story."