“Who the fucking hell is that?”, we hear you scream. This is who:
Yes, it’s that one who wails a lot and makes tearful references to his family on the X Factor. Confused? Allow our sleuth Holly C, who found the original picture at the back of the internet’s wardrobe, to talk you through it:
As winter draws in and Simon Cowell starts his annual search for the next Steve Brookstein or Journey South, it’s come to our attention that for one X Factor finalist, this isn’t his first bite of the fame cherry.
According to Austin Drage’s official X Factor biog, not only has the former ‘Five Boys’ (notice the subtlety of what they did there, like 5ive but for thick people) member supported such luminaries as Shola Ama, he also took part in ‘Boys Will Be Girls’, an E4 TV show.
What the biog glosses over and for anyone who may have missed this 2006 gem, the premise of the show was to create a new band comprising ex boyband members and pass them off as an all-girl band. Because that is funny and stuff.
As the photo shows, the resulting band The Honeytraps - which also featured ex members of Scooch and Fast Food Rockers - was basically a prettier version of Atomic Kitten and reached the heady heights of number 25 in the download charts with their debut single.
Most recently, Austin has been a member of a glam rock band called The Revamps.
Bless Austin Drage and his little cross-dressing socks!
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