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By Neil Sears, Jaya Narain and Rachel Quigley
Poser: Chloe Heald has boasted that being on the X Factor had allowed her to make more moneyThe X-Factor was accused of glamorising prostitution last night as it refused to axe a contestant for using her fame to increase what she charges for sex.
Chloe Heald, 19, boasted on the internet that being on the talent contest had allowed her to make more money.
But bosses of the ITV show said she would be judged on her singing talent alone.
It has also emerged though that Miss Heald racked up an appalling catalogue of crimes as a child - being arrested an astonishing 140 times.
With her then-boyfriend Ian Hough, she was constantly falling foul of the law, with offences including violence and street robbery.
But Miss Heald hid her background from the show 's producers.
Aged around 13, she and Hough were almost killed on their first date when a stolen car they were in crashed at 110mph.
With Hough she regularly appeared before Wakefield magistrates. Her street robberies were said to include snatching £30 from a man after he was beaten up by her friend as he used a cashpoint.
The couple were banned from the city centre and also from seeing each other to curb their crimes.
A friend told the Daily Mirror: 'We called him Hustler and her Bad girl. They caused mayhem wherever they went.'
Miss Heald - who calls herself 'Chloe Mafia' - had already been exposed as a prostitute when she appeared before 12 million viewers on Saturday night. Despite boos from the audience, she was allowed through to the next round by Simon Cowell.
But on Sunday it emerged that she was still offering sex for money while in the Premier Inn hotel, Wembley, north London, for the 'Boot Camp' stage of the X Factor last week.
Touting on one website, she wrote: 'I want to meet guys and girls for nothing but dirty fun. I've just been on X Factor 2010... yes into the next round just keeping it real. I can sing, dance yes like a slut too and I've loads of norty (sic) outfits.'
She was charging £250 an hour, having been exposed a month ago offering sex for £160 an hour. By then she had already appeared in TV trailers for the show.
Cowell responded to the initial exposé by refusing to kick the unmarried mother-of-one out of the contest, saying: 'We haven't banned prostitutes. If a person applies to the X Factor it's obvious they want to do something better with their life.'
Contestant: The 19-year-old was allowed through to boot camp by judge Simon Cowell The spokesman said: 'We're not doing anything. The editing process will continue and she may appear again - but that will be an editing choice, nothing to do with her alleged career choice.
'She will be treated as everyone else is.'
The spokesman added: 'The last we knew is that she is denying that she is a prostitute.'
But anti-prostitution groups warned that the X-Factor is glamorising the sex industry by allowing her to remain as a contestant.
Contorversial: The show's producers have been accused of glamorising prostitution after deciding to keep Ms Heald as a contestantTessa Wright, from Choose Life, a charity which helps prostitutes escape vice, said: 'Whilst we applaud any sex worker for trying to find another career, putting this girl on TV and making her an icon is not something we'd advocate.
'Millions of kids watch X Factor - and, in a way, Chloe being on the show will glamorise the sex industry. The further she goes in the programme the worse it will be.' Andie Young, spokesman for campaign group Women Not Sex Objects, said Miss Heald 'needs counselling and support, not parading on TV'.
Family: Ms Heald with her daughter Destiny who is now 21-months-oldMiss Heald, pictured below performing on The X Factor last week, was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, where she grew up with mother Helen in the rough outskirts of the town.
She apparently never knew her father - who is not named on her birth certificate - and declares of him on her Bebo social networking page that she 'neva met that ****'.
She admits she was thrown out of college in Wakefield twice.
Miss Heald - a self-confessed shoplifter who once wore an electronic tag for a year af ter steal ing money from a cashpoint - says on the site that her favourite memory is: 'Gettin smashed wiv da gyals every nite.' (sic)
In 2008 she and her boyfriend of five years, Ian Hough, had a baby girl, Destiny, who is now 21 months old.
The couple are believed to have split up in recent weeks over the prostitution revelations, and yesterday, Mr Hough, 21, refused to comment about their relationship.
But he did deny claims that he is in a custody battle over his daughter with the X Factor contestant.
A neighbour said: 'There wasn't a father on the scene and her mother had some difficulties.'
source: dailymail
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