TV talent contest The X Factor is staging open auditions in Bradford today.

A mobile audition van will be at the Kirkgate shopping centre throughout the day allowing budding musical superstars to show their skills.

If they impress the team, they will then be in with a chance of auditioning in front of the X Factor judges when the panel’s auditions take place in the summer.

Perhaps the biggest name to have found fame though the show is the chart topping band One Direction, whose Bradford member Zayn Malik, 22, quit earlier this week causing headlines around the world.

The auditions started at 9.30am.