Boy band JLS have announced that they will be parting ways after being together for five years.

The band which consists of Aston Merrygold, Marvin Humes, Jonathan Gill and Oritse Williams first entered the lime light on the X Factor, coming second in that year’s competition to Alexandra Burke.

They have enjoyed incredible success during their time together having five number one singles under their belts and will be saying a final farewell to fans in a final arena tour which will be taking place in December.

Aston told The Sun in an interview: "It’s just that time. We are still best of friends and always will be — but this is the end.”

His band mate Marvin added: "It’s an emotional time. There’s no getting away from that. We have been through so much together.

"But we have to be mature and look at this decision as a celebration of what we managed to achieve.

"We never wanted to overstay our welcome. We never wanted to be that band where people said, 'Oh, bloody hell. It's JLS again.'

"We wanted to finish on a high. We’re finishing with an arena tour — our third arena tour — and that is a massive achievement."

The band insists that the split was amicable and cite the decision as owing to their waning interest in being part of the music industry.

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