X Factor girl group Kandy Rain have denied reports from most of the Press that they met in a strip club.

Kat, Coco, Chemmane and Azi, who will be mentored by Louis Walsh in the live finals, said that lots of rumours about the group’s past are not accurate.

“Can I get one thing straight, we didn’t meet in a strip club,” Azi told Digital Spy. “For those of you who have been to a strip club, how can four girls meet and decide we’re going to form a band?”

“Me and Azi actually met at another girl band audition,” said Coco. “Azi got dropped and then we met the other girls at another audition a year ago. It was nothing to do with the stripping. When me and Azi met, neither of us were stripping and she’s only ever done it for a month.”

Addressing other tabloid reports about their private lives, Azi commented: “Some of these things said are hilarious. How can I be a WAG and a stripper? If I was a WAG shouldn’t my footballer be looking after me?”

The group also insisted that they will not go back to working as lapdancers if their pop career fails. “Stripping was a means to an end, at the end of the day,” said Azi. “Us as Kandy Rain is our future.”

Coco added: “We don’t regret it, but we’d like people to look past the stripping. That was only a tiny fraction of our lives. Kat is an amazing gymnast, Azi is a great songwriter, Chemmane has worked as a dance teacher all her life, I was studying law. These things are so far away from stripping.”