The Twins - Francine and Nicola
Your Country Needs You: Acts
The Twins - Francine & Nicola
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My Time
The Twins perform 'My Time'.
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Sweet About Me
The Twins perform 'Sweet About Me' by Gabriela Cilmi.
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About You Now
The Twins perform 'About You Now' by Sugababes in the semi-final.
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All I Have To Do Is Dream
The Twins perform 'All I Have To Do Is Dream' by the Everly Brothers in the semi-final.
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The Promise
The Twins perform 'The Promise' by Girls Aloud in the second live show.
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You've Got A Friend
Francine and Nicola perform 'You've Got A Friend' by James Taylor in the first live show.
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Final audition
The Twins perform the title track to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Whistle Down The Wind'
Likes
Shopping for clothes. The girls have the same taste in clothes and often buy two of each garment.
Dislikes
Being separated from each other.
Top talent
They believe that their musical ability comes from their Grandad Eric who played piano and sung on the pub/club circuit with his brother.
The Twins made it through to the final of Your Country Needs You, eventually finishing second behind Jade.
Where've you seen them before?
They were signed to an agent when they were thirteen and appeared as extras in a few TV shows such as "Home is where the Heart is" and "Playing the field"
They also made it to X Factor Boot Camp 2008.
Francine & Nicola trivia
In their own words: "We're flying the flag for normal sisters who do normal things and are just following their dreams."
Francine is the eldest twin by 35mins.
They both study English at Sheffield Hallam
The main way to tell them apart is that Francine has a fringe.
In school, they created their own group with three boys called Major Franix, but also did gigs without the group and were simply known as Franix.
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