Rylan Clark celebrated 10 years in the world of showbiz last year after bursting onto our screens on The X Factor in 2012. But we may have seen him much, much sooner.
The 33-year-old and self-confessed Big Brother superfan has previously claimed he was 'booted off' the hit reality show when he was 18 - before even making it into the famous house. Rylan spoke about the moment, which happened back in 2006, to Louis Theroux on his Grounded podcast.
He said: "When I was 18 I was going into the Big Brother house into the civilian version and long story short, I was in hiding, had my suitcases all changed over ready to go in and a story came out [in the press], which meant I couldn't go in and I didn't end up going in then."
