X FACTOR star Ash Holmes pulled off a rare move on the show when she ditched her band NQ for a new group.
The singer, who was 21 at the time, was booted off the show but returned to join Simon Cowell’s imaginatively-named New Girl Band.
The group never took off – but five years on Ash is still a performer and a presenter today.
She posts Instagram where she has a huge fanbase and describes herself as a “performing monkey/ full time fool”.
New Girl Band was put together by media mogul Simon just days earlier, after all the girls were booted off the Boot Camp weeks earlier.
He had once hoped they could be a female version of One Direction but they didn’t take off as he hoped.
The group impressed the judges with their performance of Hey Mama – but Simon said he wanted to bring Ash back.
Ash looked slightly shell-shocked as she was led back on to the stage by host Dermot O’Leary.
After a quick rehearsal she then performed with New Girl Band before Simon then asked her if she was willing to ditch NQ and join them instead.
However, the group ended up getting knocked out at the Judges’ Houses stage, with the contest being won by another Cowell outfit, Rak-Su.
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