Speaking to The Sun, Honey G, the alter ego of Anna Georgette Gilford, managing director of recruitment firm ARG Search, also came out as gay and revealed she is single and ready to mingle.

In case you had forgotten – as if you could, [you say Honey, I say] G competed in last year’s X Factor.

And recruitment’s most famous X Factor contestant? Why, that would be Olly Murs, the runner-up in the 2009 X Factor competition, who previously worked for Witham-based recruitment agency Prime Appointments.

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