Josh Daniel, a hopeful on X Factor, nearly chose a different song for his audition, and he might go down in history as the performer that brought Simon Cowell to tears.
Having a Conversation with the Mirror Josh’s friend Kerrianne Covell, who made it to the ITV series’ judges’ houses in 2014, disclosed that he had his eye on a different song but decided to sing Labrinth’s Jealous after seeing it performed for her and friend Liv Quantrill.
Josh was supposed to sing Nathan Sykes’ “Kiss Me Quick,” Kerrianne recalls.
“I don’t think that’s the song,” Liv said to us in the dancing studio. Which other songs would you recommend?
But the two were able to convince him otherwise after witnessing a performance in which he sang while kneeling on the ground.
“There’s no doubt about it,” I stated. It has to be the one, Kerrianne said, if you can move people’s hearts the way you did when you were just kneeling on the ground.
“He called to ask if he could change his song,” a few days before his audition.
Josh dedicated the song to his friend Tom Woolley, who passed away in 2013 at the age of just 18, as he disclosed on Sunday night’s broadcast.
Watchers observed Simon, whose mother Julie Brett passed away just before the auditions started, becoming obviously distressed during the performance. Later, he was driven off in a golf cart, leaving Nick Grimshaw and Cheryl F-V unsure of what to do.
