Shayne Ward
Shayne Ward was born on 16 October 1984.He is an English pop singer, who was discovered on the second series of UK television talent contest The X Factor.
Ward was born in 1984 in Clayton, Manchester to Irish Traveller parents.He has a twin sister named Emma and five other siblings: Mark, Martin, Michael, Lisa and Leona. 
He is a Manchester United supporter, and in 2002 he reached the final thirty of Popstars: The Rivals, the television show that created Girls Aloud. Prior to his participation in The X Factor, Ward was in a band called Destiny with two women named Tracy Murphy and Tracey Lyle, performing at pubs, clubs and weddings. He currently resides in Fish Island, London, UK.
In early 2005, Ward auditioned for the second series of The X Factor. He impressed all three judges (Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh) and passed through to the next round. His category (16 to 24 year olds) was then mentored by Walsh, and Ward was chosen to be among Walsh’s top four contestants and perform on the live shows. Ward quickly became the bookmakers’ favourite to win the show, and after making it to the grand final, he defeated Simon Cowell’s duo Journey South and Sharon Osbourne’s over-25 singer Andy Abraham and was crowned as the winner of The X Factor 2005. He had not fallen into the bottom two throughout the entire competition, and won by a margin of 1.2% of the vote, out of a reported 10.8 million phone votes cast by viewers. Immediately after the competition, his X Factor mentor Louis Walsh became his manager under a joint venture with Global Publishing and Walsh Global Management.
