Is ‘Slimey’ Simon a fraudster?

I’ve not been watching Simon ‘Slimey’ Cowell’s karaoke show the fiX-Factor. But reading all the outraged newspaper articles, it does seem that Slimey is guilty of defrauding all those stupid enough to vote for the third-raters on the show. Apparently on the most recent show, host Dermot O’Leary told viewers: ‘Your votes and your votes alone can get your favourite act safely through to the final.’ Yet it was actually the judges who decided which of the bottom two acts to save and which to send home.

That looks awfully like deliberate fraud. Viewers were lied to so that Slimey could get lots of their money under false pretences. Why doesn’t someone report Slimey to the police? Why hasn’t he been prosecuted for fraud?