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(JUNE 18) THE X FACTOR AUDITIONS: OAKLAND/SAN FRANCISCO

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(WATCH) Don Philips surprising audition!!!

At Sunday’s auditions in San Fransisco, Britney encountered a familiar face that left her teary eyed.
It was Don Phillip, who sang with Britney on “I Will Still Love You” from the Baby One More Time album.
“You could see that Britney recognized him straight away,” a source tells People. “She got this huge smile on her face and her eyes lit up. It was so sweet.”
“I know him,” Britney whispered to the other judges. “We did a duet together 10 years ago.”
Philip told the audience, “I’m gay,” and the audience got emotionally charged.
“At the time I didn’t think I was worthy,” he told Britney. “I didn’t think you thought it was okay that I am gay.”
Britney was nothing but supportive. “I think it is fine you are gay,” she said.
“When he started crying and saying he thought he’d never see her again and that he’d had a lot to deal with, Britney was comforting him to calm him,” the source says.
But during his audition, Britney was visibly shaken.
“She’s been through a lot in those 10 years, too, so it must have been a shock for her to see him,” the source says. “You could tell she was emotional and she really felt for him especially when he was crying, but she also stayed calm.”
Britney kept cool, giving him a sound critique. “She handled it unbelievably well and really stepped up to the situation,” says the source. “It was probably the most personal and emotional situation for her that’s happened so far on X Factor, and she took it totally in stride in front of a live audience of thousands.”
Philip posted on Facebook:

Tonight i might have sealed my music career fate according to a certain music mogul. I tryed to just be real and instead it totally got turned around on me. . Perhaps this was not the place for me to reveal my very soul and obstacles of my past. Certainly not the place for a reunion … I promise I only had good intentions in mind.. There is one problem my good intentioned comments and revelation were refereed by two pompass arrogant men. My voice froze i started to sing when I was told to but I could not recover from what felt like a really hardcore interogation. I guess I am not as tough skinned as I thought….Wait it gets worse.. when I looked into the very eyes of my old label mate and saw she to was sad.I knew the whole situation was spinning out of control.. my heart broke.. I am numb

source: breatheheavy

(WATCH) THE X FACTOR AUDITIONS: OAKLAND/SAN FRANCISCO

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GOSSIP: Awkward… Don Philips, who sang "I Will Still Love You" on Baby One More Time with Britney, auditioned tonight. Check out this story and audio from one Exhaler that attended:
THIS WAS LITERALLY SO FUCKING INSANE.
Ok so this guy walks out and I think he says his name and then he starts crying. Everyone in the crowd is like wtf?! So then he looks at Britney and says
"I never thought I would see you again"
So then the judges, myself, and much of the crowd think he is talking about her breakdown so everyone flips shit but then Britney says "please dont cry" followed by "no no no its okay its because we did a duet together about 10 years ago" and then she says his name, so at this point I’m just like
So then he talks about how he has been a backup singer and how he wasn’t himself when he last saw Britney and how the past 10 years have changed him blah blah blah
LA Reid asks him how he has changed or why he is different.
The dude comes out of the closet and says he is gay and the crowd claps.
He then says that he didn’t do it before because his parents thought it was bad to be gay and that Britney also thought that it wasn’t good for him to be gay.
THEN IM LIKE WTF!!! YOU MOTHERFUCKER
I look at the little camera screen and I see a close up of Britney’s face like wtf?! and shes like "no no I didn’t say that"
and then LA Reid stops her and tells him that he has made her really uncomfortable and he needs to stop speaking, Simon follows up and basically says the same thing and tells him he needs to shut up.
The crowd tells him to sing a song, chanting. Finally he sings and he is horrible.
While he was performing Demi leaned over to Britney to probably ask her about the situation and they started whispering for like 20 seconds and probably exchanged the story on the situation.
He finished his audition and when its Britney’s turn to comment she says
"I feel that you’ve been a lot through the past 10 years but I believe that you could’ve prepared better for your audition and practiced more on your vocals" something along those lines but she said it very nicely and respectfully
FLAWLESSLY HANDLED. Everyone started clapping.
I still can’t believe this happened. I was so pissed for the rest of the auditions but
BOW TO GODNEY
Source: BreatheHeavy