X Factor heart attack, unrecognizable with new look 14 years after shock exit

an old one X Factor The star is almost unrecognizable more than a decade after being eliminated from the series.

while ITV the series may now seem like a distant memory, a nostalgia for the singing competition that gave stars their breakthrough. alexandra burkeLeona Lewis and JLS are still prevalent.

Aiden Grimshaw, the head judge, was one of the huge stars predicted to become stars early on. Simon Cowell She was declared a ‘pop star’ at her first audition in 2010.

Aiden, then 18, stunned the judges with his rendition of Kanye West’s Gold Digger. Louis Walsh He calls it a ‘breath of fresh air’ and Nicole Scherzinger He said he ‘loves’ his voice, which he thinks has ‘a lot of soul’.

“That’s what I call a popstar,” Simon said as the live audition audience cheered.

The media mogul then told Aiden that he was one of the best singers they had ever encountered in Manchester and that he was one of the best singers ever in the men’s category.

As they progressed through the competition, they were selected by category advisor Dannii Minogue to continue the live shows alongside Paije Richardson, Nicolo Festa and Matt Cardle, with the latter emerging as the winner.

Meanwhile, Aiden, who competed in the same series with Rebecca Ferguson, One Direction, Cher Lloyd and Katie Waissell, took ninth place.

In the years since The X Factor, the 32-year-old musician has continued to grow his career, amassing 19,000 followers on Instagram and releasing music under his own name and the stage name Butterjack.

In some of his recent articles instagram In the photos, the singer looks almost unrecognizable compared to his X Factor days, sporting a full beard instead of his clean-shaven look on the show.

Aiden’s latest single I Couldn’t Love You Anymore was released in May this year and was a song he said he was ‘extremely proud of’ at the time.

‘I’m extremely proud of this, it was years in the making and it felt like I was sitting at my desk for months trying to get it into what it is today!’ she wrote in her Instagram caption.

‘Amazing man!!! While a user named Si commented on the song, X Factor winner Matt shared: ‘What a beautiful melody bro!! .’

Another song of his, Is This Love, has been streamed more than 536,000 times on Spotify.

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