Although X Factor winner Shayne Ward looks like the type that would start young, and he has now admitted that he had his first kiss at the tender age of 10, he has revealed that he was actually quite a late bloomer when it came to girls and romance.

He revealed: “I was very young, ten years old, and the girl’s name was Toni. But it wasn’t a proper kiss, just a peck on the cheek.” Shayne says he only started chasing girls properly when he got a lot older.

He added to Britain’s Top of the Pops magazine: “I got interested in girls after my mates – I was actually quite a late starter. I needed to be a perfectionist, so I practised on my hand. I practised loads and loads.”