Rylan Clark has been flooded with messages as he marked what should be considered a major milestone what it comes to his career.
The TV and radio star took to social media to recognise that it had officially been 12 years since he left The X Factor. But there was a time when we may have seen Rylan much, much sooner that his appearance on the ITV singing show, headed up by Simon Cowell.
The self-confessed Big Brother superfan has previously claimed he was 'booted off' the hit reality show when he was 18 - before even making it into the famous house But that was just a setback in Rylan's plans to make it.
He looked for other ways to make his name on TV and in 2010 he reached the final of Sky Living modelling series, Signed by Katie Price.
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