Quest Management, run by Arcade Fire and Paul McCartney manager Scott Rodger, has picked up the X Factor management contract for the new series of the Syco show.

Music Week understands that Quest has now been given the option to take on any contestants who make it through the audition and judges house stages to the series' live finals.

Sources suggest that Lucy Spraggan (pictured) and other entrants now in the early stages of the competition have temporarily dropped any ...