"I really want to be successful, I want to make an album, I want to give people goosebumps."
She later told the judge: "I want you, Louis I have such a crush on you. Standing in front of the 2011 judging panel, which then consisted of Louis Walsh, Tulisa (of N-Dubz fame) Kelly Rowland and Gary Barlow (of Take That fame), she even blew a kiss to her favourite judge Louis Walsh. Rhyl barmaid Sami wowed the X-Factor judges back in 2011īubbly, talkative, and always ready to laugh, one of the first things Sami would say on camera was that she kept her bar tips so that she could buy herself a kebab on the way home.īefore stepping out on stage, she famously told the camera: "I've decided to audition for The X-Factor because I love to sing and, to be honest, I'm too thick to do anything else." She had only ever taken her vocal talents to karaoke competitions and small Saturday night pub gigs before deciding to take a chance on X-Factor, a show she had previously watched for eight years. Read more: A look back at when the Kennedys visited North Wales in the sixties Sami was a 31-year-old barmaid (although she later changed to work at a card shop in Rhyl during her time on X-Factor) when she auditioned for the ITV show in September 2011. This year marks a decade since a small-town girl from North Wales lit up one of the UK's most loved talent shows.Ī decade ago, Samantha Brookes of Rhyl came within a whisker of winning the title of X-Factor, and subsequently got the whole of Denbighshire behind her.
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