X Factor star looks very different six years after finding fame as she crops up on daytime TV

SAARA Aalto made a surprise appearance on This Morning today after finding fame on The X Factor six years ago.

The pop star shot to stardrom on the 2016 series of The X Factor after being mentored by Nicole Scherzinger.

Saara, 35, reached the final of Simon Cowell‘s talent show but she lost out to winner Matt Terry.

She appeared on UK telly for the first time in years today when she joined This Morning in a segment about her homeland Finland.

The country has been named the happiest place to live on earth, and Saara showed just how happy she was by belting out a tune with host Josie Gibson on air.

The star had chopped off her long curly hair and kept warm in a huge fur coat, while Josie stripped off to her swimsuit to plunge into the river with other locals.

Saara last graced our screens on Dancing On Ice in 2019.

She reached the final alongside partner Hamish Gaman, who was booted off the show after a huge feud in 2020.

Since then she has tied the knot with her manager Meri in 2020 at a private registry in Helsinki, Finland, two years ago.

She then left the UK and has now settled with her wife in her native country.

Saara’s fellow X Factor finalist Matt Terry landed a deal with Sony label RCA after beating her to the crown in 2016. 

Show bosses wanted RCA to turn Matt into the next Olly Murs, who is also signed to the label.

He told The Sun he had been dropped from the label.