Another week has gone by and we've lost another X Factor contestant and this time it was Lauren
Platt. Can't do it like him. Versus Andrea Faustini, and she lost out But I have no doubt
she's gonna have an amazing career and we have lots of twitter questions for her.
Lauren, I can't believe you're out! It was so close!
I know, I know.
How are you actually feeling, really honestly?
I'm totally 100% fine. Like, I'm excited to see what happens next, so. And I've been told
by other contestants who have previously gone that it's amazing, so I'm excited.
Really? Because actually Jay James seemed really happy the morning after. Paul, not
so much. But guessing you've got exciting things to come then.
Yeah, yeah, like I've had some amazing offers so far, only been off the show about 14 hours.
I've left with the most amazing management that I would never have found elsewhere and
I kind of, I'm in a position where I won't always be known as Lauren Platt from The X
Factor, kind of thing. Like, the show gave me the most amazing platform and I would never
ever swap a second of it for the world, but obviously we all do want to be our own artists
and stuff and I'd love to be known as Lauren Platt rather than Lauren Platt from The X Factor.
You are very good at that, I think that's amazing terminology. Also, you've got a new
BFF - Chezza!
Yeah.
She looks at you like you're her little sister.
Yeah, she's lovely. She's just one of the most incredible women I've ever met and she's
so strong and so caring. She's had me round her house this week countless times. Like,
worried and stuff and she got me a takeaway, bless her, to calm me down. So, yeah, she's
a really genuine, caring person.
I thought you were really lovely about her last night when she came on stage. I thought
she was gonna have a little sob. Before we start twitter questions, because it went wild
for you last night, it really did, I'm sure your phone went crazy, can you give me a little
impression of Chezza?
Oh, I don't- I can do, she gave me this comment in the arena audition, "That was the smartest
audition."
I was like, "Thank you, thank you very much."
I think- The Geordie Shore people taught me "cola cube, leopard skin".
And that's all I can do; cola cube, leopard skin. Right, onto twitter questions then.
Morgan wants to know, we heard that you spent a lot of time with Overload, especially Ollie,
and that they were like big brothers to you. What made them such good bros and was it fun
spending time with them?
When Overload were in the house, I spent a lot of time with them and they were like big
brothers to me and they still are. They're just great boys, they're very genuine and
they're very funny so if I was ever feeling down, I'd just walk into their room and one
of them's hanging upside down and I'd be like, "Right, how can I be down now?" They're just
such genuine boys.
Bit of planking going on, love it. Now Becky wants to know who will you miss the most?
I will miss everyone so much, and I just thank God of the tour, like we're all gonna be together
again. But I love- Only The Young were my best friends in the house so I'll miss them
a lot.
They're such nice people, aren't they?
I know.
Love them. Right, Sophie wants to know, it's gonna be lovely having a lie in the morning,
right?
Well, we don't actually get that when we leave the show. We thought we did and it turns out
we're actually quite busy.
Really?
Yeah.
That's good though.
When I saw my schedule for the next two weeks, wow.
Love that! She also wants to know, what was your most stressful week, do you reckon?
My most stressful week was probably the week I was ill, to be honest. That was not a good
week for quite a few reasons, so, yeah.
Well, yeah, I think you did amazingly. Ash wants to know, what do you think about all
of your Platters?
I am honoured to call them my Platters, they're just such an amazing support network and yesterday
I literally sent out one tweet saying come on guys, we're so close, get voting and it
just went crazy, like, they were all posting pictures about how many times- people have
been voting a thousand times and stuff and they're just so supportive and I'm so proud
of them and I love them so much.
And I don't think there's any other fan group pout there called the Platters, so I think-
Unless there's a Gale Platt appreciation society somewhere. Now TeamPlatters wants to know,
if you made the final what song would you have chosen as your winners single and why?
We kind of had our winners singles, I don't think I'm allowed to mention what it was just
in case of it- like, if it ever came out or something. But it was a beautiful song and
I would have absolutely loved to sing it but I am hoping to do something with it in the
future, so.
So you think you're gonna be more of a ballad artist rather than an upbeat one?
I think I'll be both. I'll really push myself for upbeat and stuff now I'm off the show
and I've got some really amazing people to work with that are gonna help me with that.
So long as Brian Freeman doesn't make you jump around all over the shop. Now, Cheryl's
Sholdiers- I can't sat that!
Cheryl's Soldiers, I'm pretty skilled at that.
Want to know, if you could dedicate one song to Chezza, what would it be and why?
The song I dedicated to Chezza was actually I'll be there when I did it, can't remember
what week that was. I think it was week five or six. I dedicated that to Cheryl because
even though I'm off the show I still wanna include her in wherever I go next and whatever
I do and stuff because without her putting me through judges houses and putting me through
bootcamp and stuff, I wouldn't be here, so.
Can't believe you're saying this, it's amazing that you're now close friends with a Girls
Aloud member. Have you got her on What's App? Do you emoji each other?
We do emoji each other sometimes.
I bet she's good at that, isn't she? Now this one, please follow me Lauren, says what encouraged
you to begin or what encouraged you to start singing?
I was very young when I started singing and I don't really know how it happened. Like,
I danced before and I went to a really good little dance schooling Spain and it turned
out that my mum couldn't pick me up when my lessons ended so the singing teacher was,
"Why don't you just come in, just sit, watch the class." And I remember going in, going,
"Oh, I don't like this. This isn't fun. Why would you want to sing?" And I kinda got used
to it and I was like, "Yeah, I really wanna sing now."
Love it, brilliant. Peter says what was the funniest moment you had in the X Factor house?
I get asked this question all the time and there's not one particular moment because
whenever I look back at living in the house, over the past 14 hours when I look back on
living in the house, all the fond, funny memories come to my head and all the tears and stuff
kinda disappears, in a way, like I'll never forget it but, yeah, it was such an overall
amazing experience because of the people I was in there with mostly and I never expected
to be put in there with such a funny bunch.
I dunno how you coped with all the Stereo Kicks boys.
See, they're like one of the funniest, I love them so much, everyone's like, "Oh, they're
messy" and stuff I love it, I love the fact that they're messy.
Where you gonna live now? You gonna ha- I dunno how you're gonna cope because you lived
with 180 people-
I know, I lived with nearly the whole population of England at one point. It was great though.
This one, which I love, Love you Lauren P says what are you gonna do next in your career
path? And I love you. Which is nice.
I have some really really nice things lined up, I won't say too much but , yeah, it's
really really exciting. Obviously I have the tour and I'm literally, as soon as rehearsals
start, I'm gonna through everything I have into the tour because it will do wonders for
all of us. We'll be performing in arenas around the country, we'll boost our confidence and
we'll be doing it every night so it'll be like our fist tour, I know will be like our
first tour but it actually will feel like our first tour, which is good.
To think you'll be be touring around arenas is amazing, isn't it? It's incredible how
far you've come. And I've gotta talk about your little brother because I think the whole
nation fell in love with him.
They did fall in love with him.
How did it work because we saw him on stage again after he first appeared with you.
He's been dancing for years and year and years and he was in my VT the week before he kind
of started dancing with me and I always wanted to say to him "Do you reckon you can dance
with me on stage?" but I never thought they would even entertain the idea so I never mentioned
anything and then I sang at the Royal Albert Hall one day and a researcher run up to me,
his name was Harry, and he was like, "I just had the most amazing idea." And I was like,
"What?" And he was like, "I think your brother and his troop should perform on stage with
you." I was like, "Yes yes yes, we need to make this happen, so we literally spent three
days with our head down and just making this happen any way possible and then he showed
up on stage.
I loved Simon Cowell's comment about, "Remember Britain's Got Talent starts!" I love that.
And tell me about Simon Cowell, has he been sweet to you?
Lovely. Absolutely lovely. At the end of the day he's given me an opportunity I never would
have got without the show, so.
Go Simon!
Whoo!
Lauren, you're gonna be really great, thank you very much indeed and make sure you go
and get some sleep.