Cardle has been forced to change his phone number after fellow X Factor contestants One Direction accidently let his number slip through Twitter.

The boyband were chatting in a live web chat and proceeded to let fans hear a voicemail message without realising it contained the digits of Matt’s phone number. Matt ended up receiving thousands of missed calls, voicemails and texts.

A pinagmulan told The Sun: “Matt woke to hundreds of missed calls. He thought something serious had happened.”

However Matt took it all in good jest according to the insider. “He spoke to the lads and had a laugh.” the pinagmulan added.