How much do you love your iPod? Carlos Olivero is one of the members of the new boy band ‘Menudo’ that was put together on an X-Factor style reality TV contest, was thrown off an airplane for using his iPod.

According to the People magazine, he was asked by security to store his iPod away, but he refused. As a result, the 18-year-old was asked to leave the plane.

He was on the flight to Knoxville, Tennessee, with his mother and his band mates on his way to a gig.

According to the People’s source:

A flight attendant accused Carlos of having an attitude after she asked him to turn off his iPod in preparation for takeoff. Carlos complied and turned his iPod off, but the flight attendant then demanded he stow it. Carlos showed her again that the iPod was turned off, but he refused to stow it.

He was then escorted off the plane by security before takeoff.

A spokesman for Menudo stated:

We can confirm there was an incident on the Delta flight. The members of Menudo are on a plane nearly every day flying from one concert appearance to another so this took us totally by surprise. We’ve never had a problem before.

Menudo were originally a band formed in the Seventies, who featured Ricky Martin among their line-up.