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2010's X Factor winner was in Price Slice to bang out his latest hit Starlight and we caught up with him to find out about all things in the world of Cardle.

Are you a fan of Hollyoaks?
I haven’t been watching it for quite a while the last time I saw it the boys (Matt and Darren) were in it, it’s nice to see them around the place again.

How exciting is it to perform on the set of Hollyoaks?
Yeah, I’m just excited to be here.

Which character would you like to play if you were in the show?
Tony, he’s the Ken Barlow. I’ll be Tony for no reason whatsoever.

What is your strangest Christmas day tradition?
I don’t really have a strange one it is all pretty standard; Turkey, the Queen’s Speech you know the usual stuff.

Where will you be spending Christmas this year?
At home with the folks, I’ve got a couple of weeks off which is nice.

Can you remember your best and worst present?
The best is definitely Christmas Number One last year and the worst is probably a horrible jumper I got once.

What is your new year’s resolution?
To stop smoking but I do say that every year.

How exciting has the last year been for you?
I didn’t really separate this year from the last one because it has been such a crazy whirlwind of a time.

What’s been your personal highlight of 2011?
Just writing the album, and releasing it to such a great reception that has been an amazing journey.

Have you kept in touch with anyone from the X Factor?
Me and Aiden have been best mates since boot camp and he lives just down the road from me in Fulham so I get to see him quite a bit.

Who is your favourite act from this year’s show?
I think Little Mix are doing really well and I thought Amelia was great.

Is there anyone here today who you would like to collaborate with?
Yeah I’d love to collaborate with Wretch 32 that’d be pretty good.

What would you like to have achieved by this time next year?
I just want the album to keep doing really well, I’d like to start writing another album soon too.

Take us back to Christmas two years ago before the XFactor what would you have been doing?
I was probably trying to find a dry patch of land to skate on.

What’s changed this year?
I can’t skate anymore which is fine because I’m doing something else that I love now.

We saw you skateboarding with the Dirty Sanchez boy,s what was that like?
Yeah that was wicked, they’ve torn themselves to bits those boys.

We all know that you like your hats, but what about Cardle’s Cardies?
I got a bit of a bashing from my mates for wearing cardigans all the time but I do need to get another one.

Tell us a little about your single Starlight.
It is the first single from the album that I have co-written, it was the second track we wrote. We wrote it down in Brighton before the tour started. The track kind of sounds ‘big’with an epic feel to it, I didn’t want to just do the normal and write about girls and relationships and all that so I decided to write about the end of…erm…time.