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Ariana Grande, Years & Years And Jess Glynne Added To The Jingle Bell Ball Line-Up

We can't contain our excitement…

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 11:30

Ariana Grande, Years & Years and Jess Glynne are the next acts to be announced for the Capital Jingle Bell Ball and we're SO excited.

These three acts will be performing at the annual event held at London's O2 Arena on December 5.

Ariana Grande is no stranger to Capital's events having performed at this year's Summertime Ball back in June.

Speaking to Capital FM this morning she said: "I'm so very excited because I'm a festive person and it's going to be a blast, I'm so excited! I'm going to be the funniest, most festive person you've ever seen!"

The Years & Years lads have also said how excited they are to be performing at the event, so much so that they have said they will "bring a sack of gifts and hand them out."

We're making sure we're down in the front row to get one of these gifts!

Jess Glynne who will also be performing at the Christmas event has said it will be a nice way to round off "one of the most insane special years of my life."

It was announced yesterday that Little Mix will be taking to the stage on the Sunday (December 6) and we can't wait to hear who will be joining them!

Tickets go on sale for the Capital Jingle Bell Ball with Coca-Cola on Friday 6 November at 8am at capitalfm.com/jinglebellball.

- By Megan Downing

36 Things Every Years & Years Fan Should Know

Front man Olly's full name is Olly Alexander Thornton, despite being commonly known as just Olly Alexander.

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The band's bassist Mikey Goldsworthy is actually from Australia!

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Whilst Emre Turkmen, the band's synth player, was born in the Netherlands and lived in Turkey, before moving to the UK aged 11.

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Olly is also an actor!

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...And starred alongside Douglas Booth in the 2014 movie The Riot Club.

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He also starred alongside Helana Bonham Carter in the 2012 BBC Films adaptation of Great Expectations, as the adorable Herbert Pocket.

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Although the band has only recently shot to fame, they actually formed five years ago in 2010.

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Olly dropped out of school to pursue his acting career.

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Olly joined the band because Mikey heard him singing in the shower!

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The band covered the Sean Paul and Blu Cantrell CLASSIC 'Breath' and it's amazing.

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Olly is used to date Clean Bandit's violinist Neil Milan Amin-Smith.

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It was pretty much totally official when Olly posted this uber cute snap with the caption "bb boy you stay on my mindddd" N'aww.

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The couple added their support to the Irish gay marriage reforms through this adorable Instagram message. "dear lovely irish people go and vote yes tomorrow so people like us and people not like us and all the people can get married #voteyes"

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Mikey's dad is a piano teacher and used to take Mikey with him when he was young. He would sit under the piano while his dad took his lessons.

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Emre is a big fan of Britpop.

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Mikey started learning the piano at the age of four up until he was 13, he then switched to the bass guitar.

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Years & Years topped the BBC Sound Of 2015 list back in January!

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And they toured with previous 'BBC Sound Of' winner, Sam Smith, back in 2014.

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Olly performed an acoustic version of 'Take Shelter' for Småll Sessions and included, in his words, ‘a Destiny’s Child surprise’, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_J_kAmC8Tk

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Olly was in a band in secondary school and they would play covers of TLC and Hanson.

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Their single 'King' went to number one in the UK chart in March 2015.

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Emre started writing music when he was 13/14.

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Years & Years performed at Glastonbury 2015 and drew such a huge crowd that security were stopping people from entering the John Peel tent.

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Emre started playing the guitar as a teen and always wanted to be Slash.

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Before Olly joined the band, Emre and Mikey met online and started Years & Years.

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They have many celebrity fans including Katy Perry...

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And Aaron Paul aka. Jesse from Breaking Bad... b**ch!

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Years & Years were originally a five piece before two of the members left.

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Olly has a cat called Stewie.

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Emre has a dog called Zey and he features in LOADS of adorable snaps on his Instagram.

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Olly appeared on the West End stage with Dame Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw back in 2013.

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Years & Years played at British Summer Time in Hyde Park last month and Neil took this cheeky snap of Olly on stage.

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The music video for 'King' features a topless Olly being picked up and thrown around very gracefully.

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The band played two sold out shows at Shepherds Bush Empire last month, and have recently announced more dates on their tour this autumn.

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Olly appeared in the cult E4 show Skins as character Jakob in 2013.

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Their debut album Communion is out on 10th July!

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