We’re like Jedward ...but we can sing
X Factor’s Ottavio and Bradley end fowl play
ZANY double-act Ottavio and Bradley say they are better X Factor oddballs than the legendary Jedward – because they can sing.
The camp pals made it through to bootcamp on the ITV show last night after the judges helped clear up their “chickengate” row.
And Ottavio Collumbro, 24, said: “We’re different to Jedward because we can actually sing. We’re more talented – 100 per cent.”
He and Bradley Hunt, 22, turned up to audition separately after a month-long rift. But Ottavio broke down and revealed he had been in a double-act with his pal until they fell out over a raw chicken dinner.
A baffled Simon Cowell asked Bradley, “Did you give him under-cooked chicken?” and told the weepy lads to audition together.
Ottavio said: “I was being a bit of a diva. I wanted my dinner and Bradley offered to cook an Asda chicken but when I took a bite it was raw. Part of me thought, ‘He’s trying to poison me,’ then I thought, ‘ No, it’s Bradley.’ I threw a plate at him. He left. I blocked him on Facebook, Instagram and on my phone. I overreacted a bit, maybe.”
Bradley added: “I made ‘Sorry’ videos for him and everything. We had an incident before where we had a roast dinner and the stuffing was really bad and he threw gravy at the wall.”
The pair, who admit to “drunken snogs” in the past, say: “We’re like a married couple, minus any sexual activity.”
They auditioned together as Cosmic Boom but were renamed simply Ottavio and Bradley.