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Little Mix crowned X Factor winners | |
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Little Mix have been crowned this year's X Factor winners - the first group to win the singing contest. | |
The band, made up of Jade Thirlwall, 18, Perrie Edwards, also 18, Jesy Nelson, 20, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 19, beat Marcus Collins to take the title. | |
After being announced the winners of the ITV1 show, Nelson said: "This is never going to sink in." | |
Their first single, a cover of Damien Rice's Cannonball, will be released in shops on Monday. | |
The two acts battled it out in the second part of the show's final, after fellow contestant Amelia Lily was voted out on Saturday. | |
The programme saw the finalists sing their favourite song from the series so far, a Christmas song and their versions of the winner's single in front of a 10,000-strong audience at London's Wembley Arena. | |
Saturday's show saw the three finalists duet with their mentors with Collins, 23, singing Billy Joel's She's Always A Woman with Gary Barlow and dedicated the performance to his mother. | |
Cowell prediction | Cowell prediction |
Little Mix performed an Alicia Keys medley with Tulisa Contostavlos while Amelia Lily sang Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep - Mountain High with Kelly Rowland. | |
The performance was not enough to keep the 17-year-old from Middlesbrough in the competition as she received the fewest votes from the public. | |
Speaking via Skype on The Xtra Factor after the first instalment of the final, Simon Cowell - who left the judging panel this year to front a US version - called the show "absolutely amazing - one of the best finals I've ever seen". | Speaking via Skype on The Xtra Factor after the first instalment of the final, Simon Cowell - who left the judging panel this year to front a US version - called the show "absolutely amazing - one of the best finals I've ever seen". |
When asked who he thought would win the competition, Cowell replied: "Without a doubt, Little Mix won the night. | When asked who he thought would win the competition, Cowell replied: "Without a doubt, Little Mix won the night. |
"[They are] a revelation and if a girl group was to win this show it kind of makes history and maybe something special is going to happen." |