Eoghan Quigg - X Factor 2008
We bet you thought you’d heard the last of former X Factor finalist Eoghan Quigg, but his dad insists that his teenage son will be back….this time ‘bigger and better.’
Eoghan released his first and only album early last year. It peaked at 14 in the charts then fell out of the top 100 within three short weeks. Record label RCA dropped the 17-year-old soon after.
X Factor star Diana Vickers seems to be on the brink of great things. The 18 year old has just released her debut single which seems to be quickly climbing up the UK charts and announced her first UK tour, but what of young Eoghan Quigg who she became so attached to during her time on the ITV show?
No one can forget Eoghan’s near hysteria at seeing Diana voted off The X Factor or the subsequent pictures showing the pair locked in a romantic clinch, but Diana now admits that she hasn’t seen the Irish teenager since she left the X Factor house.
Eoghan Quigg - X Factor 2008
Former X Factor finalist Eoghan Quigg hasn’t been in the public eye much since he was dropped by his record label last year. However the singer has admitted that he still has big plans for his showbiz career and hopes to land a role in a TV series like E4′s Skins.
Quigg told The Herald:
Eoghan Quigg - X Factor 2008
After the untimely and devastating death of Stephen Gately, it seems that fans are eager to get Boyzone back out on the road again. Radio station U105 today suggested, that many are already suggesting possible replacements.
Though I find the whole thing a little distasteful, front runners for the role on a few Boyzone fansites, are said to be former X Factor stars Eoghan Quigg and Shayne Ward.
Former X Factor star, Diana Vickers has admitted that she and Eoghan Quigg did have a bit of a fling last year.
At the time, despite being photographed kissing, Diana denied that she had cheated on her boyfriend with Eoghan.
However Vickers has recently told London Lite: “There was something between us, I’m not going to deny that. What’s the point?
Eoghan Quigg - X Factor 2008
X Factor singing sensation, Eoghan Quigg, is rumoured to have been dropped from his label, RMC, and bookies are already betting on who will snap up the young superstar.
Apparently the reason that RMC gave for releasing the young Dungiven man was because of poor sales of his debut album, self entitled ‘Eoghan Quigg’.
Paddy Power has also included a number of the giants in the music business as possible takers of the local X-Factor finalist.
Whether you know it or not, Eoghan Quigg was the most popular X Factor contestant of the 2008 series. The producers confirmed that Eoghan received the most phone votes in 6 of the live shows of the series.
Well, we recently had the chance to chat to Eoghan and find out what’s been happening since the rollercoaster of the X Factor ended in December.
Eoghan Quigg - X Factor 2008
Eoghan Quigg has revealed that he is “not sad” that the X Factor tour is finished and hopes he will now have some more time to work on his song writing skills.
The teenager told The Daily Star: “I’m not sad it’s finished.
“I write songs whenever I’m bored but the show didn’t inspire me to write anything.”
Their supposed romance was the talking point of this years X Factor but Eoghan Quigg has revealed that he and Diana Vickers never really dated.
In fact he says that the pair only ever shared one snog but that there were no feelings there.
Eoghan told Star magazine: “We had a snog but I didn’t feel anything so there’s nothing going on.”
He continued: “I think people really wanted us to be together but we weren’t.
Eoghan Quigg is to become the first of last year’s X Factor contestants to release a single and his debut is titled 28,000 friends.
RCA are obviously hoping that Eoghan can tap into the online generation and the songs revolves around the whole MySpace/Facebook phenomenon. The opening verse goes :
