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Pop Idol star Rik Waller leaves music industry to forge very different career - 23 years after he had to drop out of reality show due to losing his voice
The now 43-year-old wowed judges S imon Cowell, Pete Waterman, Nicki Chapman and Neil Fox with his vocal talents at just 20 years old.
At the time Waller said:‘This is definitely the real thing and,although our pagan beliefs mean that ours isn’t an engagement in theconventional sense, we have bought rings as a gesture of love and commitment toeach other.’ Despite his early exit, Waller signed a record deal with EMI believed to be worth around £400,000 and got off to a good start with his first single, a cover of I Will Always Love You (pictured 2004) He also appeared on the first series of Celebrity Fit Club in 2002 (pictured), alongside the likes of Ann Widdecombe and Coleen Nolan, but was famously kicked off for secret binge eating
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