X Factor's Kitty Brucknell invited to the Oscars (but has to perform in Manchester instead!)

Kitty Brucknell X Factor 2011

X Factor star Kitty Brucknell has revealed she has been invited to the Oscars next year… but will have to snub the awards show for a tour date in Manchester.

Wacky Kitty, who left the show in style back in November, said: “I can’t wait for the tour, I am so excited about it.”

And she revealed: “Rather randomly, I was invited to the Oscars this year, but I can’t go because it is on one of the tour dates.”

Despite the 32-date tour playing some of the UK’s biggest venues, Kitty added she was most looking forward to singing in her home town of Cheltenham.

She said: “I would love to do a show at the Centaur. I really want to perform in the Town Hall, but it is too big. But that is what I have wanted to do for some time.

“It would be really special and I don’t think an X Factor contestant has done a gig in the town before.”