When they first started they didn't know each other. Aston is involved in Beat Bullying, a campaign to stop bullying. I got some information from JLS's book 'The story so far';
Oritse Williams is 22 years old. 'I was fed up at school and my mum was always happy to see me at home, I am a lot like my older brother. I look after my mum, she has MS and I look out for her'.
Mavin Humes is 24 years old. He is the oldest member of JLS, the other members look to him before they go on stage. 'All of us in JLS have made sacrifices to get to where we are and sometimes that is hard on families and girlfriends'.
Aston Merrygold is 21 years old. ' I'm the one who always puts myself forward to do things like radio interviews. A few months ago we played at something called Face in a bottle, I was the cute one.
JB is years 23 years old. He is kind and honest.'As a group we're the perfect combination, Mavin is very good at communicating with people, I can do a bit of everything'.