Olly Murs muses over life and luck

Former X Factor star and pop favourite Olly Murs recently released his sixth album You Know I Know. He talks to Lucy Mapstone about why he feels he has lasted in the industry for so long, how he writes his own music and why he never wants The X Factor to end.

Olly Murs has just been asked: how have you managed to last for so long when so many of your X Factor peers have vanished into thin air?