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Former X Factor winner Sam Bailey causes outrage on Twitter

Sam Bailey has since removed the tweet Credit: Sam Bailey official Twitter account

Former X Factor winner Sam Bailey has landed herself in the centre of a Twitter storm after sayin that the UK borders should be closed in wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.

The 2013 competition winner, who's from Leicester, received a huge backlash from other users of the social networking site who said the mum-of-three was "ignorant".

After being bombarded with abuse, Sam swiftly deleted her tweet and apologised to those who didn't understand "what she meant".

She wrote on her account "Tweets deleted due to the amount of abuse I’ve received! I know what I meant and I apologise if people didn’t! I don’t deserve threats though"!