x factor

1.Max George, Jonny Lloyd, Andy Brown, Scott Clarke and Ross Candy make up the boyband Avenue. The group first auditioned for Britain's popular TV talent competition 'The X Factor' back in 2006. The group made it to judge Louis Walsh's final 4 but the band were ejected from the show for concealing they had a management deal and were then replaced by boyband Eton Road. Now the band are releasing their first single 'Last Goodbye' which is to be released 8 September (download from 1 September).

Lucie Jones was a contestant on the 6th series of the UK talent show, The X Factor, in 2009. On her first audition, she won over the judges and the live audience with a stirring version of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" earning herself a standing ovation by the live audience, and 4 yeses from the judges to move her into the bootcamp stage of auditions. In bootcamp she sang Christina Aguilera's "Hurt" and once again wowed the judges, and found herself moving onto the final stage of auditions, where she was picked to be in Dannii Minogue's top 3 girls for the live shows.

Ella Henderson is a 16 year old singer / songwriter from Lincolnshire, England. She is one of the contestants on The X Factor (Season 9, 2012) that wowed the judges with her heart-rending tribute she had penned to her late grandfather. Mel B: 'Whoever, or whatever you wrote that song about those words, I’m sure, hit a chord with everyone. Your song writing is so clever. It made me go into my own little world, and go, "Oh my God – I felt like that at one point".

Futureproof are a male vocal group who performed for the chance to win the 2007 series of the British talent show X Factor. Consisting of five members who, like Hope, auditioned originally as soloists but did not make it past bootcamp. Aaron Delahunty (19), Adam Chandler (21), Matthew Protheroe (17), Richard Wilkinson (23) and Sean Rumsey (20) formed a group after Louis Walsh suggested that they re-audition as a five-piece.