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Little Mix
Little Mix's startling rise to win the eighth series of UK TV show The X Factor
in 2011 broke the mould of talent show winners. The girl band were not only the
first group to win the show, but they were also unique in that none of the
members - Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall -
knew one another before the competition. All the girls originally entered as
solo acts and made it through to boot camp, but failed at the first stage.
Instead of discarding them completely, however, the judges ripped up the rule
book to give them the chance to work in di...
