Olly Murs

Former X Factor contestant Olly Murs has compared his time in the XF house, to a Big Brother like experience.

Olly told RTÉ: “Well, it’s like the ‘Big Brother’ house but we were obviously allowed out in ‘The X Factor’.

“Like everyone in their day-to-day life, you have your days where you have bad days, you have your good days and you have stressful times.

“Obviously, in the house, there wasn’t any arguments as such but you knew when to let someone let off a bit of steam or you knew when they were in a bad mood.

“I think the worst thing about the house, that I found, was just getting some time to yourself.

He added: “I’ve lived in a hostel when I did three months in Australia travelling so I kind of knew how it is and you do get your moments when you’re with someone all the time and you do get your times when you can have a couple of hours where you can just go out and if you wanted to go out you could go out on your own and have a walk, gather your thoughts.

“There was a nice park nearby. It was just one of them things unfortunately.”