X Factor NZ winner praises Natalia Kills her humanity!
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Following his triumphant X Factor win last night, Beau Monga is feeling hungry.
Before our interview starts, he's putting in an order for teriyaki chicken on rice with extra mayo on the side. Then he tells me about his favourite culinary treat - sushi dipped in butter chicken sauce.
Beau Monga was crowned winner of the second series of X Factor NZ
He's refreshingly normal and the win has yet to sink in. I joke that he's famous now and he laughs.
"I don't think I'm famous, eh, I really don't think I am. So buzzy."
He describes a lot of things as buzzy - it's a word that seems to sum up his X Factor experience succinctly, with all its ups and downs.
Monga's original judge was Natalia Kills, who was famously ousted with her co-judge and husband Willy Moon, after the pair launched a vitriol-laden rant at contestant Joe Irvine.
He doesn't hold any ill feelings against the pair, defending them as "good people".
Following the incident, Monga worried that people might not want to vote for him as one of Natalia Kills' proteges, but obviously that wasn't the case.
He says it didn't take away from the sheen of the show, but he found it hard to figure out what happened on the X Factor stage that night.
"I honestly can't get my head around it," he says.
"Usually I figure out things pretty quick, but that one I can't get my head around it. But I know they're not like that eh, they're good people.
