Fleur East was told ‘take five’, but what she actually heard was ‘change lives’ On a cold Saturday night in December 2014, one X Factor hopeful had the music industry scampering around to fix an unexpected issue. What had they done to cause the problems? Put on an epic performance that nobody was expecting. At the time the ITV talent contest was way past its peak of 2010’s 19.4 million viewers, and was instead hemorrhaging viewers with each power ballad.
‘I said to him, “I feel like maybe you’re angry with me because I did your song before it was released.” He was like “No, no, no, I owe you a drink”,’ she told us, smiling at the fond memory. She also recently interviewed Bruno, 39, as part of her job on Hits Radio: ‘He said, “Hey, you’re Uptown Funk”. He thought the whole thing was crazy.