A former X Factor winner has responded to Scott Mills ' sudden exit from BBC Radio 2 with a bizarre statement where he said that he 'doesn't hold a grudge'. Steve Brookstein was the first winner of The X Factor , coming top on the show in 2004. Following the announcement that Mills was sacked from his role as the breakfast show host on BBC Radio 2, Brookstein retweeted his own post from 2013, where he accused Mills of "taking the p**s" out of him on air. The 2013 post read: "@scott_mills