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Matt Terry thanks fans after winning X Factor 2016
Posted On Dec 14 2016
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Matt Terry clinched X Factor victory with just 8% more votes than runner-up Saara Aalto.
SYCO/THAMES TV Undated handout photo issued by ITV of Matt Terry who will find out later if they have won this year’s ITV1 talent show, The X Factor.
Sheeran has also written songs for the likes of One Direction, Olly Murs and Taylor Swift but has himself been relatively out of the spotlight some time.
Penned by Ed Sheeran, the song is now top of the iTunes singles chart, with fans bidding to push it to the coveted Christmas number one spot this weekend.
Last night, the two pals almost broke Twitter when Matt won The X Factor 2016 and Freddy appeared to “kiss” him on stage by way of congratulations.
Unlike previous years” winners who have done cover versions for their debut single, Matt’s winner’s song is an original track called “When Christmas Comes Around’.
Terry’s triumph is the second win for X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger, who also mentored James Arthur, the victor of the 2012 series.
Matt Terry struggled to hold back his tears as he was named the victor of the 2016 series of The X Factor. Matt sang “You Don’t Own Me” by Grace on the first week of the finals, while “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye was his piece on finals week 2.
Before the X Factor finals, he said he hoped his female fans would vote for him even more.
After Matt Terry took the title last night, people are wondering whether he was the victor right from the start.
He explained: “I feel like I’m so exhausted and delirious, I just need to go back to bed and wake up tomorrow and have celebrate”.
“I want to say a massive thank you to everyone I have met across this entire journey”, he wrote on Twitter.
Simon Cowell was one of the first to congratulate him and said: “You came into this final as a good artist, you ended as a great artist. You are now part of that chapter”. “Well deserved. XFactorFinal.” Coronation Street actor Shayne Ward, who won The X Factor in 2005, also shared a message of congratulations. Get Me Out of Here!
