The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.