X Factor boys: Attention has been 'crazy' (VIDEO)

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X Factor boys: Attention has been 'crazy' (VIDEO)
X Factor boys: Attention has been 'crazy' (VIDEO) (Image credit: Ken McKay)

The X Factor boys have revealed that the attention they’ve got from fans in the street has been 'crazy'. Talking to whatsontv.co.uk, 18-year-old student Joseph McElderry said “People were just walking past and instantly recognising you going, ‘Oh my God it’s the X Factor!’ But if I’d walked down the street two weeks ago that would of never happened. The contrast! It’s strange to get used to.” Glaswegian singer Rikki Loney added that they could not believe the amount of photographers and fans hanging around outside the house they share with the rest of the Final 12 contestants. He said: “When we walked out of the gate there were like 25 paparazzi there and there were loads of people shouting!” Watch the interview here:

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.