Louis turned down JLS Oritsé!
22 Oct 08
JLS favourites 'missed' by Louis Walsh before!
Louis Walsh clearly loves JLS now - but amazingly, he's previously TURNED DOWN the band's Oritsé.
The mentor and manager has had nothing but praise for the London-based boyband, who he has labelled "The best band we've ever had".
But in a chance meeting a few years ago, Louis blanked Oritsé's attempts to catch his attention.
The JLS singer explained, "I was working on a street team in Soho in Central London a few years ago - I was just a teenager".
"My job was to give out fliers and do promotions for the clubs, trying to get the customers in".
"I saw Louis Walsh in the street. I knew who he was and I pretended I didn't, I just went up to him and asked him if he'd like to go to a club - he was like (does spooky Louis impression) "No, I'm not interested, I'm not interested."
"Then I said, 'Aren't you Louis Walsh, I'm a singer, would you mind if I sang for you and you could give me your opinion of my talent?'"
And he told me, "I'm not interested, I don't want to know".
Now mentored by Louis in the competition, Oritsé has confronted Louis about his earlier knock-back.
Said Oritsé, "I have spoken to Louis about it but he just laughed".
"He said, 'It's funny, isn't it a small world?'"
"And he said,' It just goes to show if you want something enough you will find a way to get it.'"
Oritsé is happy with the way things have turned out, saying, "It's weird to think that he didn't want to know - and it's crazy that he's now so involved"!