Kye Sones PIC: Ken McKay/THAMES TV
X Factor chimney sweep Kye opened for Scissor Sisters
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
5:07 PM
Singing chimney sweep and X Factor sensation Kye Sones actually played with global megastars Scissor Sisters.
The revelation had bosses at the hit TV talent show scrambling to tell viewers he is not being ear-marked early for success.
Brush man Sones used to play in a band called Diagram of the Heart. It emerged they opened for the chart-topping Canadians, but never released an album.
An X Factor spokesman said: “People with raw talent all stand the same chance in the competition, whether they have been in the business before or not.”
Sones moved to play down his past experience by saying the X Factor was the most nervous he had ever been.
“Stepping on to the ‘X Factor’ stage I felt like I’d never sung before - it was so nerve-wracking,” Sones told The Sun newspaper.
“That’s why the response - from Gary, Louis and two of the hottest women in the world - just knocked my socks off.”
This is the first year where people can audition with their own songs or even have management deals in place.
Other Showbiz Articles
- Picture gallery: Chelsea Flower Show 2013
- Tom Hiddleston to take lead role in Donmar Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus
- Theatre review: Hutch at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
- Kate Winslet hosts fundraiser for homeless charity
- Move over, Leo! There’s a new Gatsby in town
- Young Sherlock Holmes author Andrew Lane to present Lost Worlds
- Film review: The Great Gatsby
- Camden Council gives go-ahead for life-size statue of Amy Winehouse
- ‘Boris is all about Boris’, says London Mayoral hopeful Eddie Izzard
- Four things to do if you can’t get tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show
- Stars of small screen gather for TV Baftas
- TV Baftas: Olivia Colman and Peter Capaldi in running for two awards each
- East London Line turned into performance space for Sound Tracks festival
- Amy Winehouse’s family life and love for London to be explored in new exhibition
- Doctor Who tribute sketch at TV Bafta Awards
- Felicity Kendall and Kara Tointon in Relatively Speaking in the West End
0 comments