For anybody who doubted Jamie Archer's rock and roll rebel credentials, these pictures of him breaking the show's curfew by staying out after 8.30pm should set the story straight.

The afro-haired talent show hopeful was snapped making a trip from the north London house where the contestants are staying to the Walkabout pub in Covent Garden - ostensibly to give a CD to a friend.

The 34-year-old, who is the oldest contestant left in the contest, obviously wasn't ready to head to bed in his jim-jams- and got a taxi to the pub where he used to gig at 10pm.

Jamie's jailbreak came on the same day that the contestants were banned from signing autographs and chatting with fans who had been congregating outside the house.

18-year-old Joe McElderry read a statement to fans telling them they would have to watch the contestants come and go from a pen across the street from now on.

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