Last night on The X Factor Nicole Sherzinger was left reaching for the tissues when she was reduced to tears by 90s boy band Next of Kin.

The three brothers, who did the Smash Hits Tour back in 1995 with Boyzone and others, performed their own song Can’t Find Me Without You.

But we doubt even Nathan, Kieran and Mark predicted the impact they would have on the former Pussycat Dolls star who no doubt was thinking about her recent split from Lewis Hamilton.

Afterwards she said: “Wait, wait, wait, let me get myself together. Okay, so that kind of touched me. That song was just magic because it was so truthful.”

The lads were praised by all of the panel and will now go through to the arena stage where they will sing in front of 4,000 people.

Another person who was successful and made one of the judges cry was 20-year-old Steph Woods, who got through to the judges’ houses stage when she first auditioned aged 14.

She made Sharon Osbourne, who didn’t put her through to the live finals, well up before she even performed her rendition of Snow Patrol’s Run.