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Tulisa Contostavlos’ “Little Mix” Wins UK X-Factor

Little Mix became the first ever group to win The X Factor UK. The public voted for them to become the new X Factor champions on 11th December 2011. The band -mentored by Greek-Eglish Tulisa Contostavlos- were only put together during the closing stages of boot camp but gelled pretty much instantly and – despite some dodgy styling moments – soon became one of the series’ strongest contenders.

Little Mix (previously Rhythmix) are a four-piece girlband made up of Essex barmaid Jesy Nelson (20), High Wycombe waitress Leigh-Anne Pinnock (19), and South Shields students Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall (both 18). Originally known as Rhythmix, the band was formed at bootcamp from singers who auditioned as soloists. On 26 October 2011, Rhythmix announced that they would change their name following a dispute with a children’s music charity of the same name, after the programme tried to trademark “Rhythmix” in Europe.  It was reported that the band decided to make the change, despite no legal reason to do so, to avoid any difficulties for the charity. They announced that they would now be known as Little Mix on 28 October 2011 following on from this, the band said: “We all agreed on it, including Tulisa, because it just felt right”. Little Mix became the first girl band in the history of the The X Factor to make it to the final live show. They reached the final two on 10 December 2011, and won the show on 11 December 2011, making them the first group to win The X Factor.

Tula Paulinea “Tulisa” Contostavlos (born 13 July 1988), the X-factor judge that mentored “Little Mix” –   is an English singer-songwriter and actress of Greek descent. She is best known for being a member of the Camden-based hip hop group N-Dubz, with her cousin Dappy and their friend Fazer. Contostavlos was a judge on the eighth series of The X Factor and mentored the “Groups” category, including Little Mix, the first ever group to win the competition.

As a recording artist, Contostavlos has recorded three studio albums with N-Dubz, Uncle B (2008), Against All Odds (2009) and Love.Live.Life (2010). In 2011, she started work on a solo album.

Contostavlos was born in Camden Town, North London, to Anne Byrne (who, with her three sisters, was a member of the 1980s band Jeep) and Steve Contostavlos (part of Mungo Jerry).

Watch Litle Mix’s performance:

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