BIG BAND WEEK Welcoming back Louis to the judges table following the tragic death of Boyzone singer, Stephen Gately, tonight’s episode was one of the most anticipated nights of the X Factor – Big Band Night. Michael Buble was mentoring the contestants, with Olly up first to sing Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller’s “Bewitched”.  Big [...]

DIVA WEEK This week’s theme was ‘Diva Week’.  In to mentor the contestants with a Masterclass was none other than Whitney Houston and legendary music mogul, Clive Davis. Singing Ike and Tina Turner’s “Fool in Love”, Olly smashed it up and received a standing ovation for his performance in which he performed the trademark ‘Olly Shuffle’! [...]

ROBBIE WEEK This week the X Factor finalists were mentored by none other that Mr Robbie Williams! Olly performed one of Rob’s greatest hits, “She’s the one”.  In rehearsals, Olly and Robbie hit it off well with Robbie saying he’d like to be Olly’s mate. The judges gave Olly some great critiques with Simon commenting that [...]

Having successfully made it through the X Factor Bootcamp stage, Olly went on to see if he could cut it and make the X Factor finals as one of Simon’s lucky trio. Feeling the pressure, an understandably nervous Olly performed his version of Leon Russell’s “A Song For You”. With Simon and Sinitta judging who to [...]

Olly makes it through the Bootcamp stage! Along with the other successful candidates, Olly joins Simon Cowell’s group in the over 25′s.  Joining Olly are Jamie “Afro” Archer, Treyc Cohen, Danyl Johnson, Nicole Lawrence and former Popstars the Rivals winner and ex One True Voice singer, Daniel Pearce. The other judges and groups: Cheryl Cole - The [...]

At bootcamp, Olly plumped for Elton John’s “Your Song”. Showing a little more restraint than on his blistering audition, Olly still managed to put in a good performance which the audience loved.  The judges were slightly more critical this time around with Simon commenting, “You know what’s frustrating, he was one of those guys who could have [...]

25 year old Olly from Witham, Essex was the final act up for the night on episode 4 of the X Factor audition shows.  The Essex geezer who worked in an office advising people how to save money on their energy bills is just like any other bloke in his 20’s.  He likes going out and [...]