Dirk has a less-than-super night

SCOTTISH SINGER Dirk Johnston has been eliminated from singing show Superstar after ending up in the bottom two for the second night in a row.

The 24-year-old faced Tim Prottey-Jones in the sing-off after they received the lowest number of viewers’ votes in the contest to find the lead performer in a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

After the pair sang a duet of Christina Aguilera’s ballad Hurt, Lord Andrew LloydWebber chose to send Prottey-Jones (32), from Birmingham. into the next stage of the competition.

Johnston, from Crieff, had been in the same position last night but won out over Afnan Iftikhar.

Last night, however, Lord Lloyd-Webber sent him home.

Looking upset, he told host Amanda Holden: “It was obviously very hard to be twice in the bottom two but I’m extremely grateful to have been able to come this far.

“That you

believed

in me, and took me, Andrew. I’m only just out of uni, and you took me all the way up here.”

The remaining contestants are Jon Moses (28), from Newcastle; Ben Forster (31), from Sunderland; David Hunter (27), from Warrington; Jeff Anderson (21), from Newtownards, Northern Ireland; Nathan James (23), from Reading; Niall Sheehy (31), from Bray, Co Wicklow; Roger Wright (41), from east London; and Rory Taylor (24), from theWirral.