X Factor star Honey G is working as an estate agent — two years after signing a music deal with Simon Cowell
FORMER X Factor star Honey G is working as an estate agent - just two years after she shot to fame and struck a music deal with Simon Cowell.
The quirky rapper, real name Anna Georgette Gilford, 37, agreed a one hit wonder deal with music mogul Cowell after rising to the top on the reality show in 2016.
But now The Sun can reveal she is working as a sales negotiator at Chancellors Estate Agents after her newest releases continued to flop in the charts.
Snapped without her trademark sunglasses and metallic clothing at the swanky office in St John’s Wood, the larger than life X Factor reject looked almost demure.
After announcing her split from Syco in April last year, she blamed the company for ‘The Honey G Show’ falling flat, and announced that she was setting up her own label, H to the O Music.
Sources said her new colleagues didn’t recognise her at first and were shocked, but after realising who she was they joked that she should perform at their Christmas party.
She insisted she took the job as an estate agent to get “structure” back into her life and that her music is going “really well” - juggling the new job with her performances including a meet-and-greet.
She said: “I decided to go out and get a job because I wanted the structure in my life, my music is still going really well.
“I was really pleased to get the job because before X Factor I really wanted to get into an estate agency, but I couldn’t get a break.
“I think it has helped me, I think all of the achievements on X Factor has helped me to get this break with Chancellors being one of the top leading companies.
“It’s different to recruitment, I prefer doing this because I can fit my gigs in on the weekends and the evenings.
“It's not really about the money to me, it’s to have something to do during the days.
“It can be quite unsociable, sometimes I don't get on stage until 2 or 3am, it liberates me a little bit more in my life.
“Chancellors know, they are fine with me doing my music career in my spare time and were good to me saying that if I ever have any gigs and need to book a day off that is fine.
“I haven’t offered to do their Christmas party. The person who interviewed me knew who I was, I put all of my X Factor achievements on my CV.
“My music dream is not is by no means out of the picture. I don't want people to get the wrong idea that I’ve decided to go out and get a job because I don’t want to do music anymore and it's not like that at all.
“I’m still running my label, still trying to make it a success, I’m hoping the collab I’ve got coming up is going to help me sort of push it forwards.
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“Obviously I’d really like to start getting some chart success which is what I really need to take my music career to the next stage.”
Before competing on the X Factor she had been running her own recruitment company, ARG Search Limited, and started training for the new role three weeks ago.
Honey G added that she is planning on releasing new music in the new year, including a “high profile” collaboration.
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