“I think over the past few years, the BBC and the Eurovision team have really, really seen it for what it can be and what it is,” he enthuses. If I had released an album after X Factor, it wouldn’t have done well, because people saw me as that character, that was the joke. In recent history, X Factor has been put under the microscope once again, as people re-evaluate the treatment of reality TV contestants. “Doing X Factor has definitely affected me, going forward, because there is no bigger crash-course than becoming famous overnight and having to deal with everything,” he says. “It’s nice that all this time on from that idiot on X Factor, people can go ‘oh he’s doing alright’.”

Source: Huffington Post January 13, 2024 19:18 UTC