X Factor star looks worlds away from ITV fame as she walks Wicked red carpet with Ariana Grande

X FACTOR prima Lucie Jones looked worlds distant from her ITV fame arsenic she walked the Wicked reddish carpet with Ariana Grande past night.

Lucie, 33, who archetypal roseate to fame connected the endowment amusement successful 2009, played protagonist Elphaba Thropp successful the West End accumulation betwixt 2022 and 2023.

While Cynthia Erivo's taking connected the relation for the movie adaptation, Lucie inactive got to travel on to yesterday's UK premiere astatine the Royal Festival Hall successful London.

The vocalist enactment connected a stunning show successful a racy achromatic blazer with a plunging neckline and an assortment of buttons.

She wore coordinating trousers and toted her essentials astir successful a metallic clutch, wearing bold greenish eyeshadow successful enactment with the film's colour scheme.

Lucie adjacent shared a radical changeable with Ariana and Cynthia arsenic the film's formed and their West End counterparts came unneurotic astatine the event.

Lucie archetypal roseate to fame erstwhile she competed connected The X Factor successful 2009.

Although she didn’t triumph the competition, finishing successful eighth place, she has since proven her endowment extends acold beyond world TV.

Following The X Factor, she took connected assorted roles successful West End productions, and astir notably, the coveted relation of Elphaba.

Her portrayal of the misunderstood witch has garnered rave reviews.

She has starred successful productions specified arsenic Les Misérables, Bat Out of Hell, and Rent, earning praise for her almighty dependable and signifier presence.

Lucie went connected to vie successful Eurovision backmost successful 2017 wherever she finished successful 15th place.

She blamed Brexit for her disappointing showing, wherever she didn't negociate to get a azygous constituent from Germany oregon France.

In an exclusive interrogation conscionable hours aft the result, Lucie said: “I had nary thought however Brexit was going to impact the ballot until I was there. I did announcement tons of Brexit comments.

“I mean the Aussies were the lone ones to springiness america 12 points retired of everyone — present that was beauteous awkward.”

Making it each adjacent much annoying for the erstwhile X Factor contestant was that she had voted to REMAIN.

Speaking arsenic she headed location from Kiev, Lucie said: “I did ballot to stay successful the EU, but hey, not overmuch we tin bash astir it now.

“Lots of radical voted to permission and we’re a ideology and that’s the mode of the world. S*** happens.”

While the vocalist had not realised however feelings astir the referendum would impact her scores, others had feared the worst.

Despite this, Lucie said she was arrogant of her show of ballad Never Give Up On You — particularly due to the fact that she didn’t travel past similar definite erstwhile UK entrants.

She explained: “You cognize what, I’m feeling good.

“We didn’t travel past which I’m thrilled about.

“We got large nationalist effect and I person had loads of messages of enactment from celebrities.

“It’s large that we got the enactment from home.

“All the messages person been conscionable overwhelming.”