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Olly Murs spent a week in bed with exhaustion: 'I was a bit of a zombie'

'Troublemaker' hitmaker Olly Murs has revealed that he stayed in bed for a week after finishing his presenting role on 'The X Factor' because the schedule was exhausting. 

During an interview with The Sun, the heartthrob admitted that he didn't realise how draining it would be:

"'The X Factor' was amazing but the schedule was hard. Then to add music into that makes it doubly hard. I'm a human being, I can't do everything. People forget you are on the biggest show on TV so as soon as you walk out on Saturday or Sunday night all the attention is on you.Being an artist I loved the attention but every night it was just so intense."

"In the lead up to Christmas it hit me hard. I had a week in bed when I couldn't move. It was a bit of a brain freeze. I was a bit of a zombie. I had to have three or four days in silence when I just chilled out, got off my phone and had a bit of me time."

"It's the mental pressure of dealing with TV, the lights being on you, plus at the same time promoting your single and wanting that to do well. It was mentally and physically tiring because of all the travelling I was doing in between it all."

Murs, meanwhile, is gearing up to release a new album and told press that it's his "most personal" record yet: "It's going to be an honest album, it's going to be completely fresh and new for me. I wanted to come back with something different from the fans, it's time for me to sort of mix it up and I think this album really talk about other things that have been going on in my life. It's the most personal album I've done."

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