Rylan Clark says 'I didn't realise I was on telly' as This Morning bosses get 'payback'

Rylan Clark admitted: “I didn’t realise I was on telly!” as he almost made a huge mistake live on This Morning . The ITV daytime host was left blindsided on Friday’s episode (August 10) when a throwback clip to his X Factor days was shown on screen. With his co-host Dermot O’Leary on the scene of Rylan’s bootcamp back in 2012, Rylan was shown singing along to Respect with two other contestants.

Clearly unhappy about being shown in his younger years, Rylan said: “Do you know what this is...

no! You're lucky – when you put picture-in-picture up I nearly said something. Didn't realise I was on telly. "Second of all, make-up Bernice, she actually sewed those extensions onto a top for me for bootcamp.

That's Bernice's handiwork. This is just payback because I walk in every morning going, 'I don't read the briefs, I don't read the script' and clearly I don't! Because I didn't know that was happening!" His co-presenter Josie Gibson gushed: "You were only a baby! How do you feel watching that?" and Rylan admitted with a fist raised in the air: "I done all right in the end!" – a clear nod to X Factor bosses that despite being a 'joke' act, he'd made it in the presenting world . Rylan finished in fifth place when starring on X Factor, making it all the way through to the live shows under the tutelage of Nicole Scherzinger .

His tearful breakdown went viral at judges’ houses, when Nicole told him: “Rylan, it’s such a big risk...

but I have to take it, and you are.