ANT: I WAS A DUMPED TOT
By Lara Gould Tv Reporter
X FACTOR hopeful Anthony Hannah has revealed how he was brought up by his gran after being abandoned as a baby by his parents.
The singer with Eton Road barely saw his mum and dad when he was growing up. Mum Carol left him with her mother-in-law, Henrietta Hannah, soon after he was born because she couldn't cope with bringing him up.
Anthony, 17, says he would have been put into care - if his gran had not stepped in. "My parents split up when I was a baby," he said. "Thankfully I was taken in by my nan."
Anthony still lives with Henrietta in her modest Liverpool semi. Also living there are his younger brother and three sisters - who were also left in their gran's care by mum Carol and their dad, Anthony Snr.
But Anthony said Henrietta, 71, raised the children like they were her own, adding: "I couldn't have wished for a better childhood."
He says his gran is "really amazing" and wants to win X Factor so he can buy her a new house.
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