X FACTOR star Misha B is unrecognisable 12 years after her appearance on the hit show.
The 29-year-old singer, who appeared on the ITV show in 2011, looks very different now and has since enjoyed music success after releasing her tracks to YouTube which have racked up thousands of views.
The talented star keeps her fans updated on Instagram, with a series of stunning photos and holiday snaps from exotic locations.
Misha treated her followers to a clip of her singing an acoustic song she had written three years earlier.
Posting the video last year, she penned: “I wrote this song 3years ago in this same month where did the time go I love nothing more than making music.”
In 2020, Misha B revealed that she felt suicidal after show judges called her ‘a bully’ live on TV when she appeared on the show.
Misha – whose full name is Misha Bryan – accused show producers of giving her the stage name, Misha B to deliberately play into the bully storyline they’d created.
“Before I went on to the live show, they proposed to change my name to Misha B,” she said.
“Little did I know, this was to play into their corrupted agenda for the ‘Misha Bully’ they had already orchestrated for this.”
The Manchester singer also accused producers of feeding lines to judges Louis Walsh and Tulisa Contostavlos , which leant into stereotypes about black women.
Former judge Tulisa hit back at her accusations that she was part of scripted bullying and a sabotage ‘storyline’ in 2011.
She apologised for what she described as an “emotionally immature” row but denied being racist.
Misha was called ‘over-confident and feisty’ by Louis and Tulisa, and said: “These judges spent about 1% time with me and their contestants, apart from Gary [Barlow] and Kelly [Rowland].
“My understanding is you’ve created this whole narrative of me being over confident, because you are Black and Black girls are not supposed to be confident,” she said.
“‘You look like a younger Tina Turner, you look like a younger Chaka Khan’, why can’t I just look like me? Why is it always a comparison for Black women?”
Misha then added: “Moving on to Tulisa – if you go back and watch the clip carefully, and I’ve gone back and watched the clip carefully, this woman had every line scripted before she even opened up her mouth.
“I wasn’t fooled. I’m not fooled. I know what it is here. I know exactly what it is here. And, you see, back in 2011 they got away with it. They got away with so much s***.”
This included eventual winners Little Mix, whose member Leigh-Anne Pinnock has spoken openly about the racism she’s faced in her career.
But Misha denied ever talking behind people’s backs and especially not Leigh-Anne’s, so she went to speak to Little Mix about it.
The bully label would go on to have serious consequences for Misha who said she felt suicidal after the incident.
“I remember thinking of ways to end my own life, ways I could end the pain,” she said in the emotional video.
Fellow singers praised Misha for her honesty, including Beyoncé songwriter, MNEK.
He wrote on Instagram: “I remember us talking about all of this in our Home Run sessions. 8 years is a long time to process, but the real ones, we all saw it.
“I’m so so so happy that you’re healing we love u Misha! You’ve always been that gurl x”
