Gok Wan: 'X Factor twins are my guilty pleasure'

Gok Wan: 'X Factor twins are my guilty pleasure'
Gok Wan: 'X Factor twins are my guilty pleasure' (Image credit: PA Archive/PA Photos)

Gok Wan has confessed X Factor twins John And Edward are his Saturday night "guilty pleasure". The How to Look Good Naked presenter said: "I like them because I think they've got b***s to go out there every single week and have some fun. "For two 18-year-olds from Ireland with that amount of self confidence, and I'm all about confidence, I think it's brilliant." He continued: "They've got the bows and bangles, the pyrotechnics, everything about them is creating brilliant stage shows and, you know what, it's a Saturday night, it's what you want, you don't want to see somebody crying over a piano all night." However, despite taking the highest percentage of the viewers' vote and bookies slashing their odds of winning the show, Gok still does not believe they will go all the way. He said: "I don't think they're going to win for a second because I think there's better talent in the show, but they know that and they believe in themselves."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.