04/09/2010 -->"X-Factor :TWEM ask not to be called Jedward "

FRENCH twins Twem have slated Jedward – ­saying: “Don’t compare us to them. We can sing.”

Samir and Mehdi, 25, claim they’re different to last year’s X Factor star twins John and Edward Grimes. Samir said: “They’re good guys but we’re definitely not the same. We don’t have their hair and we can sing. They’re here to joke and that’s not what we’re all about. We are twins but we are very different. We’re not Jedward in French.”

The boys sang Lady Gaga’s Just Dance in last night’s show, changing the lyrics to Just Twem. Simon Cowell looked horrified and gave them a No – then blamed judge Louis Walsh for the ­“Jedward Effect”.

He said: “This is the effect you’re now having. The two monsters you created are now spreading across Europe. Here it comes back again.”

But Samir said: “It made us want to try very hard to impress him. We want to make Simon like us.”