Olly Murs' wild love life before marrying Amelia including Melanie Sykes 'dates'
Congratulations to Olly Murs and his stunning new wife Amelia Tank as they tie the knot today after four years of dating.
The star shot to fame after finishing second in the 2009 series of The X Factor, going on to release a string of hit singles and albums.
Olly, 39, also managed to make the successful leap to presenting, becoming a familiar face hosting the X Factor alongside the late Caroline Flack, and most recently as a judge on The Voice.
The cheeky chappy from Essex has had a number of girlfriends and rumoured dalliances, including a glamour model, a co-star and a dating show contestant.
While the star is now settling down for married life, the singer has enjoyed his own fair share of wild oats.
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Amelia Tank
Olly got engaged to model Amelia Tank last July and recently confessed it was a long time coming. He told Lorraine: "Amelia has been planning our wedding day for years - what dress she's going to do and all that.
"For me, proposing was something I'd thought about for ages. 'I wonder who that woman's going to be, I wonder when it's going to be and when I'm going to do it'."
Olly and his fiancée Amelia Tank are getting hitched on Saturday marking an end to the X Factor star's wild single years (Publicity picture)Olly and Amelia have been dating since 2019 and the My Heart Skips A Beat hitmaker revealed that a two-week trip to Morocco sealed the deal.
"After two or three days, me and Amelia looked at each other and said: 'Yeah, this is kind of it now, isn't it?' We both told each other that we loved each other," he previously told new! magazine.
"When we came back from that trip Amelia said: 'I knew straight away that you were who I was going to spend the rest of my life with", and I said the same."
Melanie Sykes
Melanie, 52, shot to fame as the face of Boddingtons beer and enjoyed a year-long dalliance with Olly, despite their 14-year age gap.
The former couple apparently bonded over their mutual love of fitness, as Mel is an avid fan of the gym and was impressed when Olly started his own fitness regime.
Apparently Mel and Olly enjoyed a brief romance after bonding over their love of fitness (msmelaniesykes/Instagram)At the time in 2017, a source told The Sun: "Mel loves a younger man and really fell for Olly when he got into shape late last year.
"They were initially introduced through a mutual friend. They started texting for ages and some of the messages ended up getting quite saucy.
"They were bonding over her fitness programme. He was a fan of her gym selfies and thought that she had an amazing body."
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It was claimed the pair met for a string of secret dates at his house, where she would "sometimes stay overnight".
The pair were said to be "determined" to keep their "off and on" romance under wraps, with there being a "real physical attraction between them".
In April Mel posted a picture on Instagram of the pair backstage with the caption: "Not much can get me out on a Saturday night but this guy has!"
The pair never publicly confirmed they were dating and later that year Olly denied there was a romance between them during ITV’s Loose Women.
When asked about their relationship, Olly admitted: "Mel's amazing...there might have been something." Before adding: "I'm single, since the last time I checked, I'm definitely single. It's just me in my bed alone."
X-Factor romance
Olly was a very busy boy during his X-Factor stint, which he came second on in 2009, enjoying a string of dates with fellow X-Factor contestant Laura Henderson, who he met while they were in bootcamp together.
They stayed in touch after Laura – a singer in girlband Project A – failed to make it to the later stages of the competition and kept their romance hidden until it was made public.
Olly Murs shot to fame on the X Factor in 2009 and also romanced two women (ITV)A source close to the couple revealed: "Olly is absolutely smitten with Laura.
"They hit it off as soon as they met, but both of them realised it was better they tried to keep the relationship quiet.
"It's early days, but Laura is very supportive of Olly and they're both hopeful they can make things work once the show is over."
At the same time as his romance was revealed, his ex-girlfriend Keli Flower told how he had dumped her for fame.
Hairdresser Keli, 23, dated Olly for eight months before he ended their relationship earlier this year telling her: "I'm on the verge of being successful and it wouldn't be fair to drag you through it all."
Olly, who was living with his parents in Witham, Essex, also had a fling with fellow contestant Carmella Rinaldo at bootcamp before getting together with Laura.
Caroline Flack
Rumours around these two swirled for years due to the pair's extremely flirtatious behaviour while presenting X-Factor together, however, Olly has always maintained the two were only ever friends.
The snake-hipped singer previously said that if they were to have ever become more than friends, it would have happened when they first met.
Caroline Flack and Olly were close friends and rumoured lovers (PA)Caroline, who sadly passed away from suicide in 2020, gave a little more away in an interview about the duo's setup.
Speaking to You Magazine, she said: "Me and Olly have a lovely relationship. It's a weird chemistry. We have an innate understanding of one another – we don't fancy each other and yet we don't not fancy each other.
"We're not girlfriend and boyfriend, yet we're not totally platonic either."
Olly has previously spoken about his "regrets" about not being there for Caroline, who tragically took her own life aged 40. During a concert Olly dedicated his performance to his friend, telling the audience that he has "so many questions that I wanted answered and I am never ever going to get them answers".
Take Me Out star
In the same year that Olly was rumoured to be dating Melanie Sykes, there was always talk that he had started romancing former Take Me Out star Emma Conybeare.
A source told The Sun previously: "Olly and Emma saw each other a number of times, they have a lot in common.
"The relationship ran for a few months but they’re still pals."
The One That Broke His Heart
In 2015 Olly opened up about splitting with his ex-girlfriend Francesca Thomas, who he dated for three years after they met at V Festival in Chelmsford.
Speaking on Loose Women shortly after their breakup, the singer said: "I've just gone through a break up with my girlfriend, which has been quite sad, quite a difficult couple of weeks."
The Troublemaker singer told The Sun that although they had separated the previous year, his heart was still broken.
He wrote his 2016 album 24 Hrs about the split and insisted the pair were still friends, telling Female First: "We're still friends, we get on great. She loved the songs and she wished me all the best."
It's believed it took Olly a while to get over his relationship with stunning property developer Francesca, admitting he was heartbroken after their split, which he blamed on his "addiction" to work.
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