Who is Amelia Lily? Everything you need to know about the X Factor star and Celebrity Big Brother 2017 housemate
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She has a big voice and a big personality. X Factor fans fell in love with Amelia Lily, who finished third on the show in 2011.
Following the appearance of Frankie Cocozza, her ex, on Celebrity Big Brother a few years ago, Amelia is now living in the 2017 edition of the house.
After X Factor, the 22-year-old's career seems to have taken off. She's recorded some hit singles, landed a major deal with Sony and performed in West End shows.
But who is Amelia? Here is everything you need to know about her...
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Who is Amelia Lily and where is she from?
Amelia Lily Oliver was born on 16 October 1994 in Middlesborough to Aranka Bradley and Barry Oliver. She was educated at the independent, fee-paying Teeside High School.
Amelia was a figure skater for six years during her childhood, but her real passion has always been music: She's been writing songs with her guitar since she was 13 and regularly posted videos of herself singing on YouTube during secondary school. One video in which she covers Adele's Someone Like You was viewed more than one million times.
Her love for singing, however, meant she was picked on. “I didn’t have a lot of mates at school and was bullied a lot for wanting to sing," she told the Daily Star in 2013.
“When I got into the X Factor they all started contacting me out of the blue but I ignored it all. I’m very grateful to the few good friends and close family that I do have in my life.”
Amelia is dating Steve Rushton - who previously dated Miley Cyrus.
Steve dated singer Miley back in 2009 before her twerking days when she was 16 and (probs a bit more innocent), when he appeared on the Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Why is Amelia Lily famous?
Amelia first came to fame with her appearance on X Factor, where she finished third in 2011.
She progressed to the Live Show stage where she was at first unsuccessful. However, when former boyfriend Frankie Cocozza was ejected from the show following many broken rules Lily was reinstated as his replacement.
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She progressed onto the next live show, made it to the final where she performed with her mentor Kelly Rowland and eventually lost out to Little Mix and Marcus Collins.
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Following the show Lily was signed by Sony with a £500,000 record deal, and soon released You Bring Me Joy, which peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and number 21 in the Republic of Ireland.
In 2015, Amelia was in the West End production of Green Day musical, American Idiot playing Whatsername, the only lead female in the show.