ANDREA FAUSTINI
CHRISTIAN GUILTENANE MEETS UP WITH X FACTOR’S ANDREA FAUSTINI TO CHAT ABOUT GAY FANS, OVER-EATING AND WHY HE’S CALLED HIS ALBUM
‘I AM HAPPY WITH MY BELLY!’
With the buzz around the latest series of X Factor reaching fever pitch following the shock dumping of Louis Walsh and Mel B and the arrival of Radio 1 presenter Nick Grimshaw and pop star Rita Ora, it’s easy to forget pretty much everything and everyone from the previous series of TV’s noisiest juggernaut.
Well, except, perhaps, for that little Italian bear cub Andrea Faustini. Remember him? Of course you do. He was the 20-year-old Italian student who bravely left his family behind to come to London to audition, and who we all fell in love with the minute he opened his mouth.
With his cute, beardy Shoreditch look, penchant for pug jumpers and diva-like vocals, Andrea looked, at first, to be a dead cert to scoop the X Factor title. But then something changed, and as the series rumbled toward it’s ultimately lacklustre conclusion, Andrea suddenly found himself in the bottom two before eventually losing out to Fleur East and Ben Haenow in the semi finals last December.