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Little Mix crowned X Factor winners | 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. | 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. | 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." | 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. | Their first single, a cover of Damien Rice's Cannonball, will be released in shops on Monday. |
Little Mix - who come from London, Essex and Tyne and Wear - had never met before being put together as a band during the bootcamp stage of the X Factor auditions. | |
They were stunned by their win from the public vote. | |
"We are just so so grateful and thankful to everyone who voted and to everyone backstage," Thirlwall said. | |
Their mentor, judge Tulisa Contostavlos, added: "I think I wanted them to win more than they did." | |
In defeat, Liverpudlian Collins, 23, said: "I'm really proud of myself and these girls really deserve it, they're amazing." | |
'Biggest girl band' | |
The two acts battled it out in the second part of the show's final, after fellow contestant Amelia Lily had been voted out on Saturday. | |
They both sang 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. | |
Little Mix chose to once more perform their rendition of En Vogue's Don't Let Go and the Christmas carol, Silent Night. | |
After they sang, judge Louis Walsh Walsh predicted the group would be the biggest girl band in the UK "by a mile". | |
"You've the vocals, you've got the chemistry, you've got the work ethic, you've got Tulisa and the public are going to love you," he added. | |
Collins sang Jackie Wilson's Higher and Higher, accompanied by a gospel choir, and Wham's Last Christmas. | |
Walsh described the singer as "a born little pop star" with fellow judge Gary Barlow calling it "an amazing performance". | |
"In the history of the X Factor I can't remember a finalist or a winner that takes hold of a stage like you do," he said. | |
Cowell prediction | Cowell prediction |
Saturday's show saw the finalists and Amelia Lily duet with their mentors with Collins singing Billy Joel's She's Always A Woman with Barlow. | |
Little Mix performed an Alicia Keys medley with Tulisa and Amelia Lily sang Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep - Mountain High with Kelly Rowland. | |
However 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 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." | "[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." |