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- Full Name
- Shayne Ward
- Born
- October 1, 1984
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- Age
- 41 years
- Zodiac Sign
- Libra
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- Nationality
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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- Profession
- Actor
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Biography
Shayne Ward is 41 years old, an actor, from United Kingdom.
Shayne Thomas Ward (born 16 October 1984) is an English singer and actor. He rose to fame as the winner of the second series of The X Factor. His debut single, "That's My Goal", was released in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2005 and reached number one on the UK singles chart and was that year's Christmas number one.
It sold 313,000 copies on its first day of sales, making it the third-fastest-selling single of all time in the UK, behind Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" and Will Young's "Evergreen", which sold 685,000 and 400,000 copies in their first days of sale, respectively. Ward was the first X Factor winner to release an original song as his winner's single. His prize, as winner, was a recording contract with Simon Cowell's Syco record label, which is co-owned by Sony Music.
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