S1 EP 16: Eoghan Quigg

Today we are chatting to Owen Quigg, who you may remember from the 2008 season of X Factor.

Now, [laughs] Scott, I don't know where to begin here, with 2008 in general or X Factor, uh, in general.

Basically, two massive things collided, of an iconic year and an iconic era of an iconic show.

So I found that when we were talking to John Tickle about custard-

Y- yes

...

I was very much in my element treating it like Frost/Nixon.

Yes, you really were

... because it was at the epicenter of my-

Mm-hmm

... youth.

Mm-hmm.

This episode for me feels like this is your Frost/Nixon-

I was locked in

...

in which 2008 and X Factor was very much at the heart of your life.

Oh, I just...

I was, I would've been 14 in 2008, and yeah, I think my weeks revolved around X Factor, and the kind of live TV and the, the, the madness that that brings.

And also, the fact they all lived in the house, which as we now know is actually true.

Yeah.

And the-

For once it was telling us the truth, that show.

[laughs]

I know.

The tabloid speculation of all these people in a house chasing the same dream.