Olly Murs - The Biography. Justin Lewis

around the house in just his undies: ‘He said it’s because he used to play football and everyone would just walk around the dressing room like that.’ And by the end of the series, Olly and Danyl were, according to some reports, barely speaking to each other.

      Assuming these relatively minor disagreements are genuine, it should be remembered that these were strangers, both professionally and personally, having to live and work under enormous pressure and a media spotlight for weeks on end. In the circumstances, it’s hardly surprising that a few petty irritations surfaced. For each of these contestants, including Olly Murs, every day in the X Factor house during the autumn of 2009 would be a whirl of excitement, energy and nerves. And from their sixth day of living there – Saturday, 10 October – their performances on The X Factor would be broadcast to the nation live.