James "Jay" McGuiness was born on 24 July 1990 and is a British singer, songwriter and actor best known as a vocalist with boy band The Wanted.
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11 Facts About Jay McGuiness
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Jay McGuiness grew up in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and attended All Saints RC School, Mansfield.
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Jay McGuiness has a fraternal twin brother, Thomas and three other siblings.
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Jay McGuiness is known as one fifth of Anglo-Irish boy band The Wanted.
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Jay McGuiness has been a member of the band since 2010, alongside Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes.
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Jay McGuiness discovered the band by Googling 'auditions' and getting two results, one for a circus and one for the band.
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In October 2017, Jay McGuiness won the first series of Celebrity Hunted alongside bandmate Siva Kaneswaran.
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In 2022, Jay McGuiness took part in and won Richard Osman's House of Games, following a tense daily battle with fellow contestant Bobby Seagull.
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In October 2018 Jay McGuiness appeared at the London Palladium in the show Rip it Up the 60s, alongside Harry Judd, Aston Merrygold and Louis Smith.
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On 24 August 2015, Jay McGuiness was confirmed as a celebrity contestant in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
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Jay McGuiness is vegetarian, although he has described himself as "not a militant vegetarian by any means".
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