He explains: "On my year I could see that Mel B was really hands-on with the mentoring and wanted to spend as much time with her acts as possible. Cheryl was the same in that respect with her category."Simon on the other hand was a bit more distant. You wouldn't see him really until Thursday or Friday.
Simon would make sure he had the gist of who I was and sometimes suggest song choices - which I would respectfully decline most of the time"He would make sure he had the gist of who I was and sometimes suggest song choices - which I would respectfully decline most of the time. "Other weeks he'd have great ideas and I'd go with them. He's such a busy man it was just great that he'd set aside some time for me."During his time on the series, Jay lived with all the other acts in the X Factor house and often provided help and support to the younger singers.Credit: Brad Wakefield - The Sun"But we all had a good rapport and got on well. It was nice.