{"id":24598,"date":"2011-12-30T23:02:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T23:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/former-x-factor-winner-leon-jackson-unrecognisable-in-saucy-shirtless-twitter-picture\/"},"modified":"2011-12-30T23:02:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T23:02:31","slug":"former-x-factor-winner-leon-jackson-unrecognisable-in-saucy-shirtless-twitter-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/30\/former-x-factor-winner-leon-jackson-unrecognisable-in-saucy-shirtless-twitter-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Former X Factor winner Leon Jackson unrecognisable in saucy shirtless Twitter picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&#038;authornamef=Sarah+Bull\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sarah Bull<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last updated at 11:02 PM on 30th December 2011<\/p>\n<p><span>He was the fresh-faced young teen who wowed the public with his soulful voice on the 2007 series of The X Factor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But now former winner Leon Jackson is virtually unrecognisable, as he showed while posting a saucy shirtless picture of himself on his Twitter page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With a thick beard and donning a beanie hat, Leon, 22, looked more like Jude Law than his former clean-shaven self in the picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Who&#8217;s that man? Former X Factor winner Leon Jackson looks worlds away from his former self in this saucy shirtless snap he posted on his Twitter page<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>He accompanied the shot with the caption: &#8216;My birthday suit ;)&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/b80aarticle-0-0F319DD000000578-579_306x423.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" alt=\"Spitting image: Leon's beard and hat made him look just like Jude Law\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spitting image: Leon&#8217;s beard and hat made him look just like Jude Law<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Leon, who was mentored by Dannii<br \/>\nMinogue on the TV talent show, has been fairly quiet over the past<br \/>\ncouple of years, and was last year named the 2nd biggest reality TV flop after another former X Factor winner, Steve Brookstein.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite winning thousands of fans<br \/>\nwith his appearance on The X Factor, Leon was dropped by record label<br \/>\nSony in 2009 after his debut solo album Right Now failed to set the<br \/>\ncharts alight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since then, however, Leon has been<br \/>\nworking on new material after teaching himself to play the guitar and<br \/>\npiano. During a recording trip to Los Angeles, the Scottish singer<br \/>\nteamed up with various songwriters in an attempt to reinvent his sound.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After performing a set of acoustic<br \/>\ntracks at the Scottish New Music Awards in September, it is expected<br \/>\nLeon will release his second album sometime next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a recent interview Leon denied<br \/>\nreports that he had called X Factor a &#8216;curse&#8217; on his life, insisting:<br \/>\n&#8216;If it wasn&#8217;t for the X Factor then I wouldn&#8217;t be a working musician<br \/>\nright now, so I owe a great deal to that show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I have obviously worked hard since<br \/>\nthen but I am thankful to the people who invested in me as a person on<br \/>\nthe show and have continued to support me since then.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And asked how his musical style has<br \/>\nchanged since the show, Leon said: I think I am a million miles away<br \/>\nfrom what people perhaps know me for. In my opinion, I was so new to<br \/>\nmusic and I had never had any experience or any inkling as to what type<br \/>\nof artist I wanted to be or where I wanted to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I was pigeon holed into a specific genre that I felt deep down that wasn&#8217;t me.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Reality show star: Leon with former mentor Dannii Minogue on The X Factor back in 2007, and performing with her sister Kylie on the show&#8217;s final<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2080513\/Former-X-Factor-winner-Leon-Jackson-unrecognisable-saucy-shirtless-Twitter-picture.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Former X Factor winner Leon Jackson unrecognisable in saucy shirtless Twitter picture\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Former X Factor winner Leon Jackson unrecognisable in saucy shirtless Twitter picture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Sarah Bull Last updated at 11:02 PM on 30th December 2011 He was the fresh-faced young teen who wowed the public with his soulful voice on the 2007 series of The X Factor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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