JB's cutting the mustard

MY RECOLLECTION of the X Factor final of 2008, I have to confess, has become a little hazy. I guess it must be an age thing. Even so, one particular moment remains firmly lodged in my memory.

- Mike Ward

It was when the talented young boyband JLS — consisting of Aston Merrygold, Oritsé Williams, Marvin Humes and Jonathan Benjamin “JB” Gill - found out that they’d lost; that the Great British public, more than eight million of whom, according to host Dermot O'Leary, had taken the trouble to vote, had instead chosen Alexandra Burke as their winner. “Mark my words,” I distinctly remember saying to Mrs Ward. “We've not heard the last of those lads.