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Sat 10 Oct 2009The public's guilty pleasure
PROFILE: JOHN AND EDWARD GRIMES:When the teenage twins from Co Dublin bring their unique brand of entertainment to ‘The X Factor’ again tonight, it may be car-crash TV but, off-screen, Simon Cowell won’t be complaining too loudly, writes SINÉAD GLEESON
Hailing from Rathangan, Co Kildare, they live with their mother in Lucan. Despite their stage-school brio, both claim to have had minimal experience in the spotlight until making it to the live rounds of The X Factor. Indeed, until Louis Walsh took them under his wing, they were preparing for their Leaving Cert at the Dublin’s Institute of Education.
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