Cher cheered on homecoming trip... but will the X Factor hopeful be the first to fall as hate campaign grows?

Cher Lloyd has today returned to her hometown of Malvern, Worcestershire, where she was bounded by hundreds of local fans and well wishers reassuring her on.

And the trip couldn't come at an improved time for the 17-year-old, who is going into this weekend's X Factor final in the face of an online abhorrence campaign.

After the teen scraped through to the last at the expense of 50-year-old Mary Byrne on Sunday nighttime, 'Hate Cher' became a trending topic on Twitter.

The phrase was the fourth nearly all used phrased on the social networking site in the UK and one of the top terms in the world in the hours following the results demonstrate.

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