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"Temps were in the low 50s and the rain was pounding down on the CBS soundstage that houses FOX&amp;#39;s X Factor, but the top four remaining contestants were nothing but bright smiles and enthusiastic attitudes as they talked TV obsessions, dream duet partners and always believing in themselves.\nThanks to the PR team that handles the FOX hit, I got to spend a day on set with Marcus Canty, Melanie Amaro, Josh Krajcik and Chris Rene. Marcus is clearly the most outgoing of the group, giving me three hugs during the duration of our interview and wanting to celebrate every aspect of his good fortune. Josh and Melanie were a bit soft-spoken, almost as if they knew that as crazy as this journey has been, it&amp;#39;s about to get a lot more wild. Meanwhile, Chris was a combination of a young boy achieving a lifelong dream and a mature adult well aware of the hardships it took to get here.\nOn that note, enjoy the best sound bites from our interviews...\nMarcus Canty, 20, Bowie, MD\nPinterestFacebookOn his favorite piece of clothing:\nGlamour: I hear that you want to start your own scarf line.\nMarcus: Yeah, I got big dreams, and the $5 million dollars would help! I want to start a scarf line, and I don&amp;#39;t know who specifically has a scarf line. Who specifies in scarves?\nGlamour: If you have your own scarf line, what would you call it?\nMarcus: I haven&amp;#39;t thought that far yet, but I know for a fact that when then the scarf lays down, I want to have a MC (for Marcus Canty) right here. I want to get different outputs on what people think about scarves. I want to study what people like so I can perfect it.\nOn his must-see TV show:\nMarcus: You know what is must-see for me? This is going to mess people up: Phinneas and Ferb is a must-see TV show.\nGlamour: Get out of here! [laughs]\nMarcus:[laughs] I don&amp;#39;t care how old you are, the way these boys get down. Man, they are the smartest little things I&amp;#39;ve seen in my life!\nGlamour: How did you get started watching Phinneas and Ferb?\nMarcus: I had a lot of time at home watching TV and I always loved cartoons. I&amp;#39;m a Looney Tunes baby, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry. I loved cartoons growing up. I don&amp;#39;t usually watch the Disney Channel, but all the sudden I turn on the TV and this cartoon comes on and I&amp;#39;m like, OK, typical old cartoon, who knows what this is going to be about,&amp;#39; but then I&amp;#39;m watching and I&amp;#39;m like, wow, this is an incredible storyline!&amp;#39; [laughs] Incredible! The craziest thing is I&amp;#39;m trying to figure out when do they go back to school? It&amp;#39;s like summertime year round for them!\nOn battling nerves:\nMarcus: I just get in the zone on stage and make the nerves work for me. I try not to think who&amp;#39;s watching, even if my facial expressions might not be the best [laughs], but it&amp;#39;s all about my performance. I love performing. I don&amp;#39;t care how many people it is. If there is just one person standing here, I&amp;#39;d perform for them. It&amp;#39;s about the connection I have with the audience.\nJosh Krajcik, 30, Columbus, OH\nPinterestFacebookOn his love for Huey Lewis and the News:\n__Josh:__I LOVE Huey Lewis and the News! I&amp;#39;m not afraid to say it! The &amp;quot;Heart of Rock N Roll&amp;quot; is my favorite song, especially because they mention Cleveland. People can say it&amp;#39;s cheesy and whatnot, but for the &amp;#39;80s, they were pretty organic and cool. I&amp;#39;d love to meet them.\nOn life in the burrito business:\n__Glamour:__Before X Factor, you were making burritos. So now, with your success on the show, have they named a burrito after you?\nJosh: I think work does have a burrito named after me, but it doesn&amp;#39;t sell well because it&amp;#39;s so spicy.\nOn winning the $5 million prize:\nJosh: I&amp;#39;d love to travel, but if I won, I&amp;#39;d have to get right to work, get in the studio and then tour. Eventually though I&amp;#39;d love to. It&amp;#39;d be amazing. I think it&amp;#39;s just being smart with money...that&amp;#39;s something that I have to learn [laughs]. The first thing I&amp;#39;d probably do is buy a new truck because my truck is a &amp;#39;95 and it&amp;#39;s going to die. So I have to get some sort of vehicle.\nOn his TV addictions:\nJosh: Game of Thrones on HBO; I&amp;#39;m completely addicted to that. Boardwalk Empire is another one that is great. It&amp;#39;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. That&amp;#39;s my favorite.\nChris Rene, 28, Santa Cruz, CA\nPinterestFacebookOn using the* X Factor* platform:\nGlamour: You had such a rough road pre-X Factor. How do you want to impact younger people that feel like they have no hope?\nChris: For me it would be anything that could support the youth in a positive way to show them that there are always going to be solutions to any problem, whether it&amp;#39;s addiction or abuse or eating disorders, anything. If I could be a person that could help them, that&amp;#39;s the best job you can have on this earth because you&amp;#39;re healing yourself and other people at the same time.\nOn the lesson he&amp;#39;s learned about himself:\n__Chris:__That I&amp;#39;m continuing to learn how to learn. You just have to keep going.\nOn the best moment of this journey:\nChris: Getting to the top four [laughs]. Having Simon say that about me! Woohooo!\nMelanie Amaro, 19, Sunrise, FL\nPinterestFacebookOn being the last girl standing:\nMelanie: It doesn&amp;#39;t really matter to me if I&amp;#39;m the last girl. I&amp;#39;m still going to work hard to win this.\nOn second chances:\nMelanie: I always said to myself that Simon was gonna come back or something was going to happen for me. I just felt it. The first week that I was eliminated, it was like all hope was gone for me, but I had to remember to continue to believe in myself.\nOn TV obsessions:\n__Melanie:__Definitely *Family Guy *and *Chopped *on the Food Network.\nOn possibly winning the $5 million prize:\nMelanie: I&amp;#39;d buy my Mom a house and of course, start my career.\nDon&amp;#39;t forget to tune into X Factor Wednesday night on FOX!\n__Who are you rooting for? Which of the contestants would you most like to hang out with? And if you won a $5 million dollar prize, what would be your first purchase? __\nMore on* X Factor*:\nHottie You Need to Know About: Steve Jones, Host of X Factor\nNicole Scherzinger&amp;#39;s Fit-Body Secrets\nThe 19 Celebrities We&amp;#39;re Excited to See Back on TV"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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