Could Essex's James Graham be in the next One Direction? The 17-year-old from Westerwings, Bicknacre, has got through X-Factor's six seat challenge with his new eight piece boy band.
The band, which is as yet unnamed, wowed judges with their rendition of Leona Lewis' song Run.
Graham's group is the largest group in the competition. The judges created two new groups from solo acts that didn't make into the solo stages of bootcamp.
The new groups were potentially going to be smaller, but Simon explained: "When we saw you as eight people, this is no word of a lie, every single one of us said 'none of this band can leave.'
"This is something different. It's nice to do something different."
The band is made up of music studio volunteer James Graham (17), Reece Bibby (15), Tom Mann (20), Casey Johnson (19), Jake Sims (19), Charlie Jones (14), Barclay Beales (18) and Chris Leonard (18), each of whom failed to make it through to bootcamp as solo artists.
Graham impressed the judges with Adele's I Can't Make You Love Me in the arena auditions and James Morrison's You Give Me Something in the room auditions.
Billericay's Lauren Platt, 16, also got a seat and will be heading off to the judges houses in the female solo artist category, mentored by Cheryl Cole.
