Diana Vickers was always the X Factee that didn?t quite fit in. The adjectives lent her by the judges in their sometimes brutal 10 second Saturday night summing-ups ? ?quirky?, ?individual?, ?kooky? ? only cemented how separate Ms Vickers appeared from the stage school-ish Mariah-esque girls that have become the resonant voices of the annual singing bun-fight.

With a wilful singing style Diana Vickers became known as the rebel in the pack of 2008?s X Factor hopefuls. Luckily, it wasn?t just the 10 million regular viewers that clocked her difference.

In March 2009 she landed a deal with RCA Records. ?Right from the start they were interested in the fact that I wrote lyrics, I could play more than one instrument and that I wanted to make a record that could have only been made by me.?

Diana?s individual approach has resulted in immediate success with her debut single ?Once? giving her a first UK No.1.