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unusual facts about X Factor



Dirtee Disco

'Dirtee Disco' is a '70s-influenced party tune on which Dizz raps about doing the robot, drinking JD & Coke and wrapping his hands around the nearest girl's waist over some oh-so-groovy beats. Featuring vocals from none other than One True Voice alumnus and former X Factor hopeful Daniel Pearce, it's more likely to remind you of your local Flares nightclub than the hedonistic heyday of Studio 54.

Dolly Dots

Groothuizen has since moved to RTL 4 where she was a panel judge for X Factor , The Voice of Holland and The Voice Kids.

Down for Whatever

To promote the song, Rowland performed the song on The Graham Norton Show, The X Factor which Rowland served as a judge and the German version of the show, X Factor.

Icelolly.com

Icelolly.com have worked with a number of celebrities in the past for promotional activities including Dancing On Ice judge Louie Spence and X Factor singer Stacey Solomon who have both been on holidays courtesy of icelolly.com and promoted the brand through various media outlets.

Northern Soul 2007

The artists include new artists, like the X Factor participants Voices With Soul, established acts like The Flirtations, Jimmy James, and Leee John, and also artists that Levine had worked with in the 1980s—Earlene Bentley, Marsha Raven, Carol Jiani and Pearly Gates.

Take the Stage

Take The Stage has been likened to shows such as American Idol, The Voice, and X Factor in that the contestants are put through a variety of challenges to see who has what it takes to be the next musical sensation.


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Aida Nikolaychuk

After Nikolaychuk's retirement from X-Factor, the video of her performance at the casting show reached a record number of views through the Web video company YouTube.

The interruption of her performance by the two X-factor judges Seryoga, a Belarusian rapper, and Ihor Kondratiuk, has been questioned.

Artie Maddicks

Created by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice and appearing in X-Factor #2, as the mutant son of Dr. Carl Maddicks, Artie's characterisation was as a mute mutant whose father was trying to cure him.

He first appeared in X-Factor #2 (March 1986) and was created by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice.

Ashcroft, New South Wales

X-Factor finalists Mahogany (9th contestants eliminated) attended Ashcroft High School.

Barnardo's Big Toddle

X Factor star Stacey Solomon and actress Laila Rouass along with her daughter Inez were among hundreds of mums and Toddlers who attended the launch.

Ben Mills

During his time on The X Factor he was mentored by Sharon Osbourne.

Mills' audition song for The X Factor was "Bring It On Home To Me" by Sam Cooke, which impressed the panel of judges; Simon Cowell thought he sounded like a young Joe Cocker, whom, incidentally, Ben names as one of his musical influences along with Tom Waits, Rod Stewart and David Bowie.

Ben Thapa

While completing his course at Guildhall, Thapa auditioned for the first series of The X Factor with his G4 bandmates Jon Ansell, Matt Stiff, and Mike Christie where they reached the final but lost out to Steve Brookstein.

Chorley FM

The show, hosted by Chorley FM's Nathan Hill and Steven Normyle with celebrity judges that included Bobby Ball, Casey-Lee Jolleys, X-Factor's Rowetta and Garry Bushell.

Ciaran Quinn

The act has achieved "moderate success" appearing on the X-Factor & Britain's Got Talent (but did not make it past the 1st round auditions).

Cocozza

Frankie Cocozza (born 1993), English singer who participated inThe X Factor in 2011

Dragon International Film Studios

S4C filmed a live audience show there with X Factor's Rhydian.

Gabrielle

Gabrielle Leithaug, a Norwegian X Factor contestant and singer known as Gabrielle

Geraldine: The Winners Story

To coincide with this and compete with the X-Factor winning song, Peter Kay released "Once Upon a Christmas Song" co-composed by Gary Barlow.

Gianluca Havern

In October 2011, it was revealed that Havern had been in a relationship with N-Dubz singer and X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos which began in June 2010.

Girls' Day Out Show

Celebrities like 'Two Shoes' who were runners up on X Factor also made an appearance.

Havering College of Further and Higher Education

Last year's panel was chaired by veteran BBC broadcaster Michael Cockerell and included panellists: the political commentator and author of Owen Jones, the Leader of Havering Council Cllr. Michael White, Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate Bridget Fox and X-factor finalist Danyl Johnson.

In-Joy

All four presented themselves as individual candidates on X Factor, but didn't make the final cut, so Soulshock suggested that they cooperate as a boy band group for the sake of the competition.

Jaap

Jaap van Reesema, Dutch singer and winner of Dutch X Factor in 2010 known mononymously as Jaap

Jaap van Reesema

2010: "You're the Voice" with the Dutch "X Factor 2010" contestants (reached #30 on the Dutch Singles Chart)

Jeff Matsuda

Matsuda moved on to work for Marvel Comics beginning with some pages for X-Men Prime, which eventually led to runs on X-Factor and Wolverine in addition to work on individual issues of X-Men, Generation X, Avengers and some pinup drawings in X-Men Unlimited.

María Villalón

Her album after her win was Te espero aquí by Sony BMG, although she had two pre-X Factor albums through a small Andalusian record label.

Ray Quinn

His self-titled debut album Doing It My Way was released on 12 March 2007, the same day as that of fellow The X Factor finalist Ben Mills.

Rictor

Created by writer Louise Simonson and artist Walt Simonson, Rictor first appeared in X-Factor #17 (June 1987).

Slimani

Chico Slimani, (born 1971), a Welsh singer of Moroccan descent, who took part in 2005 in UK's The X factor

The Reason 4

In March 2011, The boys embarked on recording their first album which has been co written and produced by Eliot Kennedy famous for The Spice Girls, Take That, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion etc. and more recently creative director on The X Factor and Andy Murray, Girls Aloud, Natasha Bedingfield, Shayne Ward.

The X Factor Philippines

The winner of The X Factor Philippines is awarded a recording contract and a cash prize of 4 million pesos.

Tom Dice

In 2008 he entered the Flemish X Factor and, with Maurice Engelen as his vocal coach, finished runner-up to Dirk De Smet.

Tony Fennell

Fennell is currently writing and co-producing for singer Brenda Edwards (We Will Rock You/The X Factor) with Jason Silver (Mark Ronson) for her forthcoming album.

Valerio Scanu

In 2007 Scanu participated in various auditions such as the French version American Idol, Italian version X-Factor, and the musical Giulietta e Romeo by Riccardo Cocciante.

Young Pharoz

Young Pharoz auditioned for the X Factor Arabia in Beirut in front of renowned judges Hussain Al Jasmi, Wael Kfoury, Elissa and Carole Samaha who later became their mentor in the following rounds.