X factor singers G4 left hearts beating at Royal Bournemouth Hospital with a special Valentine’s Day visit just days after the band members were attacked.


The operatic group spread love to poorly patients staying in hospital including 87-year-old Olive Braddock, who joined in before an impromptu performance in the atrium.

Patients and families were treated to romantic renditions of Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling In Love, Nessun Dorma and Elton John’s Your Song.

The visit came just two days after two members Mike Christie and Jonathan Ansell were treated in hospital in Birmingham after an attempted mugging.

Mike was hit over the head and Jonathan received a blow to the eye as he wrestled back a stolen laptop.

Mike wrote on his Twitter page following the visit: ‘So rewarding to do this, seeing the patients faces light up and mouthing the words. #valentinesday.’

Margaret Carr, a current patient at RBCH, said: “Seeing G4 was just lovely – it’s made my day. I’d seen them on TV and it was great to have them at my bedside – they were true gentlemen.”

Matron Trudi Ellis said: “Today’s visit from vocal harmony group G4, who found fame on the X Factor, truly warmed our hearts.

“Currently on a radio tour, the group stopped in to serenade some of our patients and everyone was just so touched – it was totally unexpected.

"They were so professional and wonderful to listen to, their visit made such a difference to the patients on the ward and to our staff, who were not expecting such an eventful Tuesday lunchtime.

"The whole thing was lovely, they brightened up Valentine’s Day and brought smiles to our faces, thank you G4!”

They also knocked on the door of an unsuspecting Dorset resident to sing songs and hand over a rose.