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Marvin Humes explained part of JLS’s history on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, but Oritsé Williams claimed he wasn’t entirely accurate.
Both men have been a part of the boyband for nearly two decades so you’d think they’d be quite clear on the facts of how it all began, but their recollections vary when it comes to the origin story.
This came to light when Sam Thompson, who is proving himself to be quite the JLS superfan was taking full advantage of being in the jungle with Marvin and got to work questioning him. When Sam is done with I’m A Celebrity, we might ask him to submit his CV to the Metro entertainment desk.
While sitting in his hammock, Sam, 31, the former reality star and now investigative journalist asked Marvin, 38, when he first met his bandmates.
‘Oritsé knew one of my mates and wanted to put a band together. I met up with him on Oxford Street, and he told me he wanted to put an R&B/pop boyband together and I was like “Okay, I like the sound of it!”‘ he recalled.
‘Then I said: “Can you sing?” He started singing to me, and I started singing to him outside Nike on Oxford Street.
‘People must have thought we were nuts.’
To think the shoppers just picking up a new pair of running trainers had no idea history was taking place right in front of their eyes.
‘Then he said he was looking for a couple more people. I knew Aston [Merrygold] and JB [Gill] was a friend of Oritsé’s and we all just came together and started rehearsing. For about a year we tried making it,’ he explained to an intrigued Sam.
The band attempted to get the attention of record companies, but nobody was interested. They clearly just hadn’t heard JB, 36, say ‘Merry Christmas’ – that would have got them a five-album deal on the spot.
‘We were about to call it a day and then Aston was like “Why don’t we give it one more shot at X Factor?” It all worked out.’
Oritsé, 36, has been tuning in from home, and suggested Marvin might need to spend a bit of time googling himself when he leaves Australia.
‘After all these years Marv still struggling to remember exactly how I put the band together and how we made the decision to do X Factor,’ he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
A fan pointed out that JB had revealed the facts of the situation during their recent tour, which Marvin was very much present for.
‘The fact you literally explained near the end of every show on the tour. God bless Marvin, must be an age thing,’ they wrote and Oritsé responded with crying laughter and actual crying emojis.
Metro.co.uk previously asked founding member Ortisé how it happened, and although he agreed that X Factor was their ‘last resort’ it was all down to one of his friends, who gave up his spot on the 2008 series for JLS.
‘One of our friends usually auditioned solo every single year. He actually introduced me to some of the band too.
‘I asked him for his audition application, which he gave us that year and we basically turned it into a group application. I shouldn’t really admit that.
‘I’ll always be grateful to him,’ he concluded. The band ended up coming second place to winner Alexandra Burke, so the selfless act really propelled their career.
There’s really only one way to solve this disagreement – Marvin and JB need to have a dance-off to Beat Again, with Sam refereeing. It seems like the fairest solution.
While Marvin may not remember what exactly happened in 2008, the dance routines to their hit songs are firmly engrained in his brain.
Shortly after the conversation concluded, he taught Sam the choreography to both Everybody In Love and She Makes Me Wanna. Marvin remembers the important stuff!
Luckily neither attempted a backflip after what happened to Aston, 35, at a recent performance.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! airs on ITV at 9pm.
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