Bosses ridiculed Faye Bray's X Factor outfit, claim

A prison teacher from Staffordshire who appeared on the X Factor claimed her bosses ridiculed her appearance and blasted her for wearing short skirts and high heels since being on the show, a tribunal has heard.

Faye Bray, who auditioned on the show in 2009, appeared on stage in a revealing outfit and bantered with judges Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh after revealing her profession to them.

After appearing on the show, Mrs Bray, who also works as a singer, claimed that her bosses had reprimanded her for the clothes she had worn and accused her of using her role at the prison to further her career.

She has accused The Manchester College, which provides teaching staff to the prison service, of unfair dismissal, sexual discrimination and failing to provide written conditions of employment.

Mother-of-three Mrs Bray, who lives in Cannock, taught young offenders at HMP Brinsford in Featherstone "life skills", politics and literacy.

She claims that, after her appearance on the show, her bosses would regularly comment on her appearance and clothing, claiming it was 'inappropriate".

She told an employment tribunal in Birmingham yesterday that she had been shouted at for the height of her heels, the length of her skirt and wearing hair extensions.

But Mrs Bray claimed she dressed within company guidelines, never wearing a skirt above the knee.

She claimed she had worn the outfit from her live audition, which was televised in September 2009, before at a local performance. And she stated that show bosses had asked her to wear a bikini.

At the start of the hearing, the tribunal panel was shown a video of Mrs Bray's X-Factor audition.

She could be seen wearing a skimpy pink and black corset with a black, short skirt during her audition.

When asked about her job, she told the judges that she was a teacher in a prison. In the five-minute clip, Simon Cowell says to Mrs Bray "I bet you're popular". The case continues.