Fears for X Factor entrant Robbie Hance, missing for six days
Manhunt begins for homeless singer
Tags: X Factor
After a dazzling audition on this weekend's X Factor, a manhunt has begun for Robbie Hance, who has been missing for six days.
Hance has slept homeless in London for six years, but this weekend is seen wowing judges at his audition with a cover of Damien Rice's 'Coconut Skins'. He progressed to the bootcamp stage of the show, but has now vanished and has not been seen or heard from in six days.
"He’s a fantastic artist and he blew everyone away at auditions," says a source for the show to The Mirror newspaper. "He doesn’t have a phone and the only point of contact was through a friend. Producers last spoke to him on Monday but they can no longer reach his friend and have no idea where he is. It’s a real worry.
"If he doesn’t get in touch by the end of next week, then he’d have to kiss goodbye to any part in the show, which would be a tragedy."
Hance impressed the judges on the show, with Tulisa, Gary and Louis showering praise on the troubled wannabe.
"You look like someone that has been lost for a while and I think you need to realise the potential you have and how good you are," said Tulisa after his audition.
"I think you are a very talented guy but I don’t think you have had a break in life and I think you absolutely deserve that," added Louis Walsh.
Meanwhile, head judge Gary Barlow said of Hance: "You have got lots of talent and absolutely zero confidence and that is the only thing to work on in my perspective."
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