‘We’vebeenintheirshoes…’
LittleMix:TheSearch sees the multi-award winning girl group (Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirlwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock) creating bands and becoming mentors to a new wave of talent, giving Simon Cowell’s TheXFactor a run for its money! The singers who make it into new bands will live together and gain access to Little Mix’s creative directors, vocal coaches, music directors, choreographers and producers. Here, the former XFactor winners talk talent, nostalgia and friendship… What’s your ambition for the series? Leigh-Anne: To find the next best big group and be the best mentors that we can be.
Perrie: We wanted the show to be different and unique, and feel fresh and young. We also hoped we would find amazing talent – as if we haven’t got amazing talent it doesn’t work. Luckily the talent was so good. The show is everything we wanted it to be.
How is LMTS different to other talent shows?
Jesy: I think it’s more current and fresh. It’s nice to see mentors who can relate to everything, who are living proof that a show like this can make you successful.
Leigh-Anne: The format is completely different to any other talent show. Us girls have been through it, we’ve been in their shoes and auditioned before. We’ve been successful – we’ve lived it. We can help and guide them, and hopefully they can follow in our footsteps in terms of finding success.
Jade: It’s really authentic. We’ve lived the experience ourselves. As mentors we’re hands-on and want to support them during and after the show. It’s a new way of doing things and we don’t follow the stereotypical rules of a talent
TV show. We want to really support the acts, and I think that will really resonate with the audience watching.
How do you hope fans will react to your show?
Jesy: I hope they love it as much as we do. I hope they think the talent is good. I feel confident they will!
Jade: I think they’ll be quite overwhelmed at how much talent there is on the show. We’ve had so many incredible singers and artists and it will give people an insight into our friendship as a group. It will be nice for people to see us open up more – they don’t see that side of us all the time.
Little Mix: The Search is on Saturday, BBC One, at 7pm.