X Factor winners Little Mix plan to sing from their own song sheets

THE winners of the X Factor television talent show, Little Mix say they plan to write their own songs and insist they will not become girl group “clones”.

The foursome, who were propelled to stardom on Sunday night when they won the ITV1 talent show, thanked their fans and said they had “made our dreams come true”.

Perrie Edwards, 18, from South Shields, said: “We’re just going to work so, so hard.

“We’ve got the track coming up, it’s going to be incredible, it’s going to be a great experience and after that it will be the album and we’ll start writing and we can’t wait to get into the studio and start writing our own stuff”.

Bandmate Jade Thirlwall, 18, and also from South Shields, said: “We have a music team we’ll be working with and they’ll have ideas and hopefully we’ll have ours and we can work together and come up with an absolute tune and good songs for the album.”

The girlband, whose other two members are Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 19, from London, and Jesy Nelson, 20, from Essex, said they were planning a brief holiday at Christmas after the gruelling schedule of the show, before getting back to work.

Perrie said: “We’ll spend time with our families, spend time with each other.

“It will be great and it’s Jade’s birthday on Boxing Day, so we’ll be celebrating that.”

The singer added that she was not worried about being seen as a role model for girls around the country.

She said: “It’s incredible, it’s a good thing to have said about you isn’t it? It feels so great that girls can look up to you. We’ve each got our own individuality and girls can look up to you and say ‘I want to be like that one or I’m like her’.

“We’re not a girl group that’s just clones of each other. We’re all so different.”

The group, beat 23-year-old Liverpudlian Marcus Collins.