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15th Mar 2015

Video: New Zealand X-Factor judge rips contestant to shreds and it’s hard to watch

Someone was clearly wearing their asshat last night

Oisin Collins

Prepare to feel furious.

Now, we don’t actually watch New Zealand’s primetime TV, so we don’t know a whole lot about their version of the X-Factor, but after watching this short clip we’ve learned a lot about two of the judges.

The judges in question, Willy Moon and Natalia Kills, are married to each other and coincidentally, both of them have silly names. It was meant to be.

It also transpires that Natalia Kills is one of the nastiest and most vile people we’ve seen on TV since Katie Hopkins, and we all know that’s saying something.

On a recent episode of the New Zealand X-Factor, Kills absolutely tears into a contestant saying he ripped off her husband’s style before unleashing a tirade of hurtful comments.

“I’m embarrassed to be sitting here in your presence having to dignify that with an opinion,” was just one of the nicer things that Kills had to say.

Willy Moon then says that the contestant in question, Joe Irvine, looks like he’s going to go into the audience and skin them before wearing them over his face.

It really is one of the worst pieces of TV that we’ve ever seen.

We have to say, fair play to former All Saints singer Melanie Blatt for standing up for Joe at the end. Not even Simon Cowell would stoop that low.

Video via dannewstv – YouTube

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