James Arthur denies sleeping with fan

James Arthur has denied claims he slept with a fan after meeting her on Twitter.

Danielle Withey, 18, told The Sun that the X Factor winner sent a taxi to bring her to his West London flat and asked her to buy her own bottle of wine on the way.

She said that he served the alcohol in a mug once she arrived, before having sex with her while still wearing his socks and jumper. He apparently stopped halfway through their second session to watch fellow X Factor star Rylan Clark win Celebrity Big Brother.

“HAHA what a load of old s**t,” Arthur has since tweeted. “I’d have kept more than my socks on if that was in my vicinity.”

The fling was alleged to have begun when Arthur started following her on Twitter, leading to the pair exchange “racy” text messages.

When Withey supposedly visited his flat and asked why he had moved a foot stool as they sat in the lounge, he reportedly replied: “You’ll be down there in a minute.”

The beauty therapist said: “I was quite shocked but I’m not naive. He then just asked if I was taking my clothes off or not.

“We started kissing and before I knew it I was naked and he was from the bottom down. But he kept his grey socks and top on, which I thought was odd.”

He asked how much she had spent on the wine. “I said five pounds. He pulled out a twenty but I didn’t accept it. It didn’t seem very appropriate.

“When I started to put my clothes on again he asked me what I was doing. Then he was all over me again. It was very, very odd. He just stopped, stood up and turned up the telly.

“He said, ‘I’ve just got to see if Rylan wins’. Then he just carried on again like nothing had happened. He doesn’t really know how to treat a girl but Twitter is obviously an easy way for him to meet women.”

Arthur is rumoured to be dating Rita Ora after his management told him to raise his standards in women.

“I’m told by my management that I need quality control,” he said.