X Factor Contestant, Tamera Foster caught shoplifting make-up a month after she first auditioned for X factor

 



X Factor favourite Tamera Foster has issued a grovelling apology to show bosses after it emerged she was caught shoplifting.

The singer, 16, was held by security guards for stealing make-up from a branch of Boots a month after her first audition.

An insider confirmed Tamera told producers: “I am so, so sorry.”

The source added: “She is really remorseful for what she has done and has said sorry to everyone on the show for letting them down. She is distraught.”

Tamera was caught thieving along with two other girls at the store in Gravesend, Kent, on July 24.

Kent Police said Boots decided to deal with Tamera through “restorative justice”.

This means a manager would have been give a chance to ask why the theft had occurred, call for an apology and seek amends rather than press charges.

Role model: With judge Nicole Sherzinger
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Sources confirmed Tamera had agreed to pay the cost of the goods stolen.

It comes as an unfortunately-timed video tutorial of how show artists do Tamara’s make-up was released online.

The teenager is 9/4 to win and blew the judges away with a rendition of Chaka Khan’s Ain’t Nobody last week.

Sharon Osbourne gushed: “You are very exotic, your name is exotic and you sing pretty good too.”

However, a chequered background has emerged.

Tamera was exposed for tweeting about smoking marijuana laced with class-A drug PCP by our sister paper the Sunday Mirror.

New leaf: Tamera Foster has "improved" say X Factor sources
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She said last month: “I’m upset and ashamed. I never meant to encourage or endorse the use of drugs. It’s no excuse, but this was months ago.”

Tamera also accepted a police caution for attacking Holly Wilks, then 15, after smoking marijuana on Boxing Day.

She recently insisted she has changed her ways.

She said: “I’ve done a lot of growing up and I still have time to grow. I don’t want to be judged on my past – it’s what I’m doing now that really matters.”

An X Factor source said last night: “She has really improved since she has been in the X Factor house. We have been truly pleased. She is a really pleasant young lady. We believe she’s turned over a new leaf.”

A Kent Police spokesman confirmed officers attended the theft, adding: “The store agreed to deal with the offences through restorative justice.”






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