Solo singer Nathan Sykes has revealed that when he auditioned for The Wanted, he went in with the belief that he wasn't going to get in so used that attitude to perform a song that was a little unexpected. 

During a new chat with Fuse TV, the 'Over and Over Again' sensation confessed that the other people auditioning were much older than him so he gave up thinking it might be a possibility and just sang a song that wasn't really appropriate for a boyband trial:

"At school, when an audition came in for you, your name would get highlighted on the list. Literally, the whole of Year 11, which was like 10 people, was highlighted. So, there's an audition for a boyband. I was like, 'no, no'. I imagined old school boybands: everyone in the same clothes, air-grabbing, standing up on the key change..."

"Sylvia (Young) was like, 'you need to do this. You're not going to regret it.' I was 16 and most the guys auditioning were at least 21. There was no way on planet Earth I'm gonna get this."

He recalled his audition song, Stevie Wonder's 'Lately', and added that he ended up getting into The Wanted off the back of that particular performance: "That was the audition that got me in the band. They liked the confidence I had to walk in and sing a song like that."

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Watch an interview with Sykes here: