X Factor star unrecognisable seven years after rising to fame

Seven years ago, a 15-year-old miss took to the X Factor signifier and impressed not lone judges Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger, Sharon Osbourne, and Louis Walsh, but besides viewers.

She went connected to finish seventh place after being mentored by Sharon, 72, yet losing retired to Rak-Su, who won the 2017 season, but she continued to gain fans connected her social media accounts.

Now, Holly Tandy is each grown up and is wholly unrecognisable from her TV debut wherever she sang Alicia Keys’ hit If I Ain’t Got You.

Having undergone a glam transformation, the star, who is successful her twenties, regularly shares glimpses of her beingness with her 90,000 online followers, documenting her travels, outfits, and narration via Instagram.

One of her astir caller posts shows a precise antithetic look from her post-X Factor days erstwhile she swapped her agelong brownish locks for a abbreviated and crisp blonde bob.

Taking to her social media account, Holly shared a reflector selfie of herself sitting successful a hairdresser chair, wearing a matching brownish athleisure acceptable and debuting a look that is person to what it was during her clip connected the show.

Captioning the station ‘Allow maine to reintroduce myself’, the singer-turned-influencer showed disconnected her blunt, acheronian brownish bob, which was perfectly curled and styled to framework her look delicately.

Her followers were speedy to stock their thoughts connected the look with galore complimenting Holly. Abs Wakefield wrote: ‘Just wow 😍 brunette is back’, portion Lex Marsha added: ‘Wow! You look amazing’.

Gemma J commented: ‘Love this colour connected you 😍xxx’ and Lizzy Needham told the erstwhile vocalist TV contention prima that the acheronian hairsbreadth made her agleam bluish eyes ‘stand out’.

It comes conscionable months aft Holly announced she and Lewis Akeister, her spouse of 4 years are engaged and acceptable to go hubby and wife.

Lewis popped the question during a romanticist getaway to Santorini successful Greece pursuing Holly’s 23rd day and shared the quality with her followers by posting an adorable video capturing the infinitesimal Lewis got down connected 1 genu successful beforehand of the sunset.

Showing a wholly shocked and overwhelmed Holly, she instantly burst into tears, falling to the level and incapable to find the close words arsenic her then-boyfriend anxiously waited for an answer, with the ringing container successful hand.

Happily accepting, Holly planted a large smooch connected Lewis’s lips arsenic chap holidaymakers cheered for them.

Holly’s caption read: ‘24.07.2024 💍 Mr and Mrs Akeister to beryllium 🥹✨’

Since her X Factor stint catapulted Holly to fame aged conscionable 15, she has continued performing and showcasing her almighty voice, whether it beryllium astatine section events oregon via YouTube.

Alongside moving connected archetypal music, Holly took connected the relation of Dorothy successful a signifier mentation of The Wizard Of Oz successful 2018.

Then, successful 2019, she was 1 of six hopefuls competing to correspond the United Kingdom successful the Eurovision Song Contest, conscionable missing retired to James Newman.

In 2021, Holly pursued a vocation alteration by joining Haus Properties successful Yorkshire.

Most recently, she dipped her toed into presenting, fronting societal media contented for Barnsley FC.

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