Essex boy Olly Murs is an office worker and describes himself as an ordinary geezer. He applied for the talent show X Factor in 2009 and blew away the judges with his audition. Olly Murs lost the final to Joe McElderry on December 13, 2009.
Irish identical twins John Paul and Edward Grimes made it through to the Final 12 in this the 2009 series of the X Factor, which airs on ITV. Simon Cowell reportedly didn’t like the twin’s audition but they impressed the other judges – Cheryl Cole, Dannii Minogue, and Louis Walsh – who voted to pass them through to the next round. Eventually they were picked by Louis Walsh as one of the final 3 Groups.