WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO TAKE PART IN CELEBRITY KARAOKE CLUB? DID YOU WATCH THE FIRST SERIES OF THE SHOW?
Harvey : I think we heard that there would be an opportunity to do karaoke and it is actually something that Max and I always used to love doing whenever we were on holiday or anything like that. We saw the first series, we saw how much fun people were having and we thought, do you know what, this will be a nice opportunity for us to not take the singing as seriously and just perform our hearts out basically. We really liked the opportunity to just sort of go out there and have a blast, which we did.
Max : I literally couldn’t agree more! We had so much fun there!
ARE YOU ONE TO TAKE TO THE STAGE AND PICK UP THE MIC? DID YOU HAVE ANY NERVES AT ALL?
Max : In all honesty, it depends on the scenario because when it came to karaoke we obviously hadn’t done it as much before, whereas if we are actually sort of performing and we’ve rehearsed it and done all that stuff, we never normally get nervous. I feel like there was probably only a tiny bit of nerves but not really because we knew we were just going to get up and have some fun and that’s exactly what we did and hopefully people will be able to see that we were just having an absolute time.
WHAT CAN VIEWERS EXPECT FROM THE SERIES? ARE THE STAKES HIGHER FOR SERIES 2?
Harvey : Well Max definitely pulled a trick or two out the bag. I think honestly they can just expect us having an absolutely amazing time like we said, not taking the actual singing side too seriously but just making sure that no matter what, we are performing 100% even if it is just running around the stage! But yeah there’s definitely a lot of interesting surprises throughout that we were shocked by and I’m sure everyone else in the show was as well.
HAVE YOU EVER DONE KARAOKE BEFORE? DO YOU HAVE ANY FUNNY MEMORIES?
Max : We certainly have done karaoke before! Majority at things like I don’t know relative’s weddings or just birthday parties. Do you know what is a funny memory? It’s actually not particularly to do with us if there’s ever karaoke. Our Dad will always do the song Angels by Robbie Williams and everyone just sort of sighs but then eventually enjoys it a little bit and it’s quite funny to see the whole room go ‘oh look Paul’s getting up! He’s doing Angels.’
Harvey : We would always go on holiday and there would always be a resort that we were staying at that had karaoke and me and Max would always get up and sing but because we always singing together from a very young age. A lot of people staying at the resort would actually be shocked that we were doing above average. They thought we’d be like these cute kids that had rocked up to karaoke then we’d absolutely sing our hearts out and everyone would just be like wait what? Everyone was always so shocked so that was another nice memory of karaoke.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BRING TO YOUR PERFORMANCES?
Harvey : We definitely brought a massive amount of energy. You know we wanted to make sure that our performance was engaging from start to finish whether that be doing a certain thing that was really cool that no one else had done or no one else could do or absolutely having the time of our lives and making sure the people watching us in the room are also joining in and having the time of their lives. We like to make sure everyone is having a good time basically.
WHEN YOU SAW YOUR COMPETITORS/FELLOW JUDGES FOR THE FIRST TIME, WHO DID YOU THINK YOUR BIGGEST COMPETITION WAS?
Harvey : We obviously already knew Sonny Jay and we knew that he was a singer beforehand so obviously we were great friends and it was amazing being in the competition together. But at the same time, we were sort of keeping an eye on him because we did know that he could really pull it out the bag and then as well Amelia is an absolutely astonishing singer so she was definitely one to keep an eye on because you know, she could blow us all out of the water with just her vocals alone. She was incredible!
Max : I mean we sort of got scoped out at the start as well for the absolutely wrong reason by Olivia [Attwood] as she thought we were Jedward so she had her eyes on us but for the completely wrong reason!
WHEN JUDGING YOUR OTHER COMPETITORS, WHAT WERE YOU LOOKING FOR FROM THEIR PERFORMANCES?
Max : I think we essentially looked for whoever was blatantly having the most fun. I think if you know the lyrics, it does go a lot better. But obviously if you recover with sort of dancing or just general flamboyant moves, I think that also recovers it so genuinely just whoever was in the moment the most really. I think definitely some people were and some people weren’t as much! That doesn’t really matter at the end of the day, whoever goes, goes out.
WHO DID YOU GET ON WITH BEST IN THE COMPETITION?
Harvey : I would say we definitely got along best with Sonny! That was from the get go. We already knew him going in and we didn’t know he was going to be in there, it was a complete surprise to us but you know yeah we were best buds! We formed a mini alliance because obviously we knew that there were some real personalities in there that we might have to sort of battle against to stay in the competition so yeah that was a lot of fun being in there with Sonny definitely.
DO YOU HAVE ANY FUNNY MOMENTS FROM FILMING THE SHOW?
Harvey : Yes! There was one moment that was ever so slightly terrifying so Max and I have seen a lot of reality TV. We’ve never really been massively involved other than obviously X-Factor Celebrity which was a very different part of reality TV. We really got thrown in the deep end when I made the decision to tell Olivia something and she didn’t take it too well to it if I’m completely honest. I certainly had my first ever reality argument with someone which you know to this day, I still can’t quite comprehend. It was really quite something so yeah, that was just hilarious for me.
Max : It was less of an argument and more of Liv just shouting at us and us being terrified.
Harvey : Ha ha and we were just victims. You’ll see in the programme what happens but I’d like to say we have made up now, yeah!
CAN YOU SUM UP THE SERIES FOR US IN 3 WORDS?
Max : I would say colourful, energetic… and dress-up
Harvey : I would say chaotic, explosive and fabulous, those are the three!
