Austin Leigh Drage (born 29 June 1986) is a singer from Grays, Thurrock. Drage first started singing when he was very young and, whilst still at school, took part in musical theater and amateur dramatics. Having signed up with an agent, Drage made acting appearances in the 2000 movie Snatch as well as a number of TV shows including The Bill and Casualty. After a spell in boy band 5Boyz, who supported Girls Aloud and Blazing Squad and took part in the Soccer 6 competitions, he auditioned and won a place in E4's gender-swap reality show Boys will be Girls, aired in 2006. Drage has also been lead singer in a glam rock band called The Gunners. Simon Cowell commented that Drage is "just what this competition needs".
On the first live show, Drage sang "Every Breath You Take" and got positive comments from the judges, with Simon Cowell stating that he believed that the public had seen only 60% of Austin's ability. He was eliminated on the fourth live show on 1 November 2008 after being in the bottom two with Rachel Hylton. In the sing-off he performed "Don't Stop Me Now" and then "Leave Right Now". Drage's mentor, Simon Cowell, voted to keep him, but the other judges — Cheryl Cole, Louis Walsh and Rachel Hylton's mentor Dannii Minogue — voted in Hylton's favor.
He has since appeared on many TV programs and turned on Stevenage town Christmas lights on 20 November 2008 where he performed fifteen songs, three of which he had performed on the live shows.
Drage made a brief appearance at Butlin's Holiday Park in Skegness on New Year's Eve 2008 to sing two solo songs and a duet with Simon Cowell.
He recently appeared as an X Factor expert on Five's magazine show Live from Studio Five.
Since then Drage has appeared in multiple magazines either naked or scantily clothed. He appeared in Attitude magazine's naked edition 2009 and Now magazine's Sexy Santa edition. Drage also made appearances and performed in Maspalomas Pride 2010.
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