Amelia Lily

Amelia Lily is an English actress and pop singer who finished third on the eighth series of The X Factor in 2011, mentored by Kelly Rowland. She competed in the show and progressed to the Live Show stage however she was at first unsuccessful. However, when Frankie Cocozza was ejected from the show following many broken rules Lily was reinstated as his replacement earning critical acclaim, during her performance back on the show in Live ShowLily gained 23.7 of the public vote and had the most votes. Lily progressed onto the next live show. Lily made it to the final even after a bottom two scare. In The Final Lily performed with her mentor Kelly Rowland.

The daughter of Aranka Bradley and Barry Oliver, Amelia Lily was born onOctober 1994 in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough. She went to Chandlers Ridge Primary school and after that she studied at the independent, feepaying Teesside High School, in nearby Eaglescliffe. Lily began her musical career while still a secondary school pupil by posting videos of herself singing on YouTube. Her cover of Adeles Someone Like You garnered overmillion views. From the age of 13, she began writing songs with her guitar and aspired to be a country singer after being brought up listening to it. She was a figure skater foryears during her childhood. She was also working on the tills at a garden centre in Nunthorpe, for 4.90 an hour, which she absolutely hated. Lily declared in an interview for The Sun that she suffered bullying for five years at a previous school, saying she had no friends, and used to come home crying all the time. The newspaper reported that bullies picked on her because of her diffe

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