A rage Against The Machine-style campaign to help Wagner win The X Factor and land a Christmas Number One is being run from an oil rig in the North Sea.
Petrochemist Dean Cogings has started up a "Wagner to Win" page on Facebook, which he reckons is helping the singer stay in the show.
And Dean is determined to beat multi-millionaire music mogul Simon Wagner triumph.
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"Getting Wagner to win will be a slap in the face to Simon. Hopefully he'll see the public want a fairer say."
Cowell was furious last year when the relentless Facebook campaign for rock band Rage Against The Machine saw their single Killing in the Name land the Christmas No 1. The song, first released in 1992, beat show's winner Joe McElderry's single The Climb by 50,000 copies to clinch top spot.
Now a groundswell of supporters are getting behind Wagner, 54, on the social networking site.
Dean added: "People love Wagner because he's having fun."