JADE admits she wouldn’t be where she is without The X Factor.
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The 32-year-old pop sensation rose to prominence as one-fourth of Little Mix – alongside Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Jesy Nelson – after the group triumphed on the eighth series of Simon Cowell’s ITV talent show in 2011.
JADE had auditioned three times before finally breaking through with the chart-topping girl group, and despite calling out the show for its lack of support for its contestants, she openly acknowledges that without the show, her dream of making it in music might never have come true.
She told Michelle Visage for Interview magazine: “I did have a plan B, which was getting a fine arts degree in the hopes of designing theater sets and things like that, but making my own music was always the dream. I come from a very small, working-class northern town. It would’ve been incredibly hard to make my dreams a reality if it weren’t for shows like The X Factor. I tried every other avenue to get there, but I wouldn’t have been able to afford the move to London.”
JADE, who released her debut solo album, That’s Showbiz Baby, today (12.09.25), feels like she is “starting my career all over again”.
She said of her music video for her debut solo single Angel of my Dreams: “That’s why I wanted to use footage of myself when I was little singing karaoke. Even now, when I watch that video, I get emotional because I’m like, ‘Wow, it really shows where I started and where I’ve got to.’ But it still feels like the beginning. I’m starting my career all over again, and I feel so blessed that I get to do it on my own in my thirties. I’m so much more confident in my skin at this point in my life.”
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