Button's bird gets the boot.

The ribbing may now finally end for Jenson Button, following the expulsion of girlfriend Louise Griffiths from the BBC's Fame Academy talent-spotting show.

Button had been teased by all and sundry over the prominence the programme gave Griffiths, to the extent that he turned up at the Hungarian Grand Prix to find his car bearing the legend 'Louise's Boyfriend', mimicking the badge he had to wear when appearing in the show's audience and playing on the fact that the singer had elevated herself to greater popularity than her other half by appearing on national television.

Griffiths became the sixth student to be expelled from 'Academy' when she was voted out on Saturday night, but insisted that she would not be giving up on her singing dreams.

"Before I came into the 'Academy', I was doing a lot of songwriting, and the other students have made me hungry to write," she told fans via the BBCi website, "I've got to do as much as I can, get a great collection of songs together and see what happens. I want to see if I can get a record deal."

The 26-year old, formerly a member of the band Orchid, admitted that leaving the show brought mixed emotions, but that she was glad to be back in the 'real' world.

"I wasn't happy to leave, but I was so excited to see my family and boyfriend after six weeks or so," she admitted, "It was really nice to be normal again. I spent some quality time with my best friends and then I went home - it was so nice to sleep in my own bed!"