Fleur East

Fleur East
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Contestant Profile
Birth Date	29 October 1987
Age	36
Hometown	Walthamstow, London, UK
Occupation	Former fitness model Singer-songwriter Dancer
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Category	Groups
Mentor	Simon Cowell
Placement	12/12
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Category	Over 26s
Mentor	Simon Cowell
Placement	Runner-up (2/16)
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Fleur Lillibeth East (born 29 October 1987) is an English singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and fitness model from Walthamstow, London who finished as runner-up in Series 11 of The X Factor. She was a part of the Over 26s category, mentored by Simon Cowell.

The X Factor

She had previously auditioned in 2005 as part of the group Addictiv Ladies, then mentored too by Cowell, where they made it to the live shows, but only finished in 12th place.

She returned in 2014 as a soloist and made it all the way to Judges' Houses as part of the Over 26s category, again mentored by Simon Cowell. He selected her as one of his Top 3 finalists for the live shows.

Throughout the live shows she impressed everyone with her performances and notably caught the attention of the British media with her semi final performance of Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk". She performed the song again during the final and finished as runner-up to Ben Haenow.

Performances

Episode	Theme	Song	Result
Audition 1	Free choice	"Missing You"	Advanced
Bootcamp 1	Solo performance	"Holler"	Advanced
Bootcamp 2	Solo performance	"Never Ever"	Advanced
Judges' houses	Free choice	"Wishing on a Star"	Advanced
Week 1		"Superstar"	Eliminated (12th)

2014

Episode	Theme	Song	Result
Room Audition	Free choice	"Ordinary People"	Advanced
Arena Audition	Free choice	"Fine China"	Advanced
Six-Chair Challenge	Free Choice	"Paper Planes"	Advanced
Judges' houses	Free Choice	"Bang Bang""	Advanced
Week 1	Number ones	"All About That Bass"	Safe (5th)
Week 2	1980's	"It's a Shame"	Safe (7th)
Week 3	Songs from films	"Lady Marmalade"	Safe (5th)
Week 4	Halloween	"Thriller"	Safe (6th)
Week 5	Queen vs. Michael Jackson	"Will You Be There"	Safe (5th)
Week 6	Big Band	"Bang Bang""	Safe (2nd)
Week 7	Whitney Houston vs. Elton John	"I'm Every Woman"	Safe (2nd)
Week 8	Songs chosen by other artists	"A Fool in Love"	Safe (3rd)
	Jukebox	"If I Ain't Got You"
Week 9: Semi-Final	Christmas	"All I Want for Christmas Is You"	Safe (2nd)
	Song to get you to the final	"Uptown Funk"
Week 10: Final	No theme	"Can't Hold Us"	Safe (2nd)
	Celebrity Duet	"Beneath Your Beautiful" (with Labrinth)
	Favourite Performance	"Uptown Funk"	Runner up
	Winners Single	"Something I Need"

Post The X Factor

Following her appearance on the show she was signed to the Syco Music label and started recording her debut album.

In November 2015, she released the debut single "Sax", which peaked at #3 on the UK charts. Her debut album was released soon after and peaked at #14. Subsequent singles performed less well.

In 2016, she signed a deal with Columbia Records to launch her international career.

During Series 13, she returned to help judge Louis Walsh select his Top 3 Groups for the live shows alongside Alesha Dixon.

In October 2017, it was reported that she had been dropped by Syco Music due to poor record sales.

In 2018, she competed on the eighteenth series of ITV's 'I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here', wherein she placed 4th overall.

In 2019, she released three new singles which included Favourite Thing, Figured Out & Size, with the latter used as part of the Debenhams Christmas Advertisement Campaign.

In the same year, she also began co-hosting the Hits Radio Breakfast Show alongside James Barr & Gregg Burns.

In 2020, she released singles entitled 'Lucky' and NHS Charity Single 'Not Alone', alongside her second studio album 'Fearless'.

In the same year she appeared upon an episode of 'Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway', and competed upon 'Rolling In It', 'Don't Rock The Boat', a celebrity special of BBC's 'The Hit List' and a celebrity special of 'The Crystal Maze'. Within the same year she also appeared on BBC's 'The One Show' and ITV's 'The Story Of SMTV Live'.

In 2021, she appeared as a guest upon an episode of 'Martin & Roman's Weekend Best!' & 'James Martin's Saturday Morning'.

In the same year she hosted new ITV Game Show 'The Void' alongside Ashley Banjo of Diversity fame.

In 2022, she appeared as a guest upon an episode of 'Celebrity Juice', and co-hosted ITV's Platinum Jubilee Street Party alongside comedian Jason Manford.

In August 2022, she was confirmed as a celebrity contestant upon the twentieth series of the BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing', before she later went on to reach the Final.

In December 2022, she released a new single entitled 'Count The Ways'.

In March 2023, she appeared upon an episode of CBBC show 'Love! Love! Love!', upon an episode of "Blue Peter" which was repurposed for one day only as "Red Peter" for Comic Relief wherein she performed her latest single 'Count The Ways'. upon a Eurovision auditions skit for Comic Relief, and upon an episode of 'Saturday Kitchen Live'.

In June 2023, she was announced as the new host of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’s’ spin-off show entitled ‘Strictly: It Takes Two’ on an episode of BBC’s ‘The One Show’, thus replacing incumbent host Janette Manrara.

Discography

Studio albums

• Love, Sax and Flashbacks (2015)
• Fearless (2020)

Singles

• Broken Mirror (2012)
• Turn the Lights On (2013)
• Sax (2015)
• More and More (2016)
• Breakfast (2016)
• Favourite Thing (2019)
• Figured Out (2019)
• Size (2019)
• Lucky (2020)
• Not Alone (2020)
• Count The Ways (2022)