CHARLOTTE CHURCH - CHURCH BLASTS EX-MANAGER SHALIT

Teen diva CHARLOTTE CHURCH has slammed her ex-manager JONATHAN SHALIT - branding him a dislikable character.

The VOICE OF AN ANGEL singer was involved in a bitter legal wrangle with Shalit in 2000 in which he took $3 million (GBP2 million) in an out-of-court settlement.

And Church is horrified that her mother MARIA was the target of the negative publicity surrounding Shalit's dismissal.

She says, "It was me, it was my decision first. He was an eccentric man, freaked me out. I can't say too much because he'll probably sue me again.

"One time I did the MTV awards and he commented about how my chest looked in this top. To a load of businessmen. I was 14. I was really embarrassed. That's one of the things that really made me go, 'No. Get him away', I didn't like him for ages.

"All my mum's ever tried to do is protect me and everybody wanted to stereotype her into the pushy mum role. And she was never that, it was me, I was mad when I was younger, I was so confident I just pushed myself all the way.

"My mum was, 'Well, if you're not happy, love, we've got to sort out the problem'. So we did. And it cost."