X Factor legend Gamu looks virtually unrecognisable fourteen years on from her stint on the ITV talent show.
The singer was just a teenager when she auditioned for the singing contest back in 2010. The then eighteen-year-old Gamu belted out the lyrics to Walking On Sunshine – and won over viewers straight away.
However, she ended up getting the boot from the show when judge Cheryl controversially gave her the chop. Gamu’s departure from the show rubbed viewers up the wrong way so much, that at the time that it spawned a petition with 250,000 signatures.
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Cheryl later defended her choice of acts and said: “I went by my gut instinct and I thought my decision was best.’ But in 2013, after Rylan Clark launched a nationwide campaign to find her, Gamu made a brief comeback to X Factor.
Since then, Gamu, now 31, has turned her back on fame for a much quieter life. She is now happily married to music shop worker husband Jamie Rintoul, with the pair getting married in 2017.
The couple live in London and regularly enjoy hikes and travelling abroad. And according to her LinkedIn profile, Gamu is employed by The Chapar, a menswear styling startup, and worked as a stylist at Topshop.
In new pictures, Gamu has ditched her iconic short locks but she looks amazing. She now rocks a braided hairstyle and a natural makeup look.
In 2016, Gamu admitted how she was prepared for the attention she gained from X Factor. Taking to Facebook, Gamu said: “To be completely honest I was trying very hard to pretend that the past 6 years had not happened.
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“If you stopped me in the street and asked me if I was ‘Gamu from X factor’ I 99% probably would’ve said ‘no’. And honestly if you do it now it might still be the same…”
She added: “I was young and incredibly naive. Too polite for my own good, never standing up for myself. Never exposing lies that were spread. Instead I just hid away and tried to pretend it wasn’t happening.”
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