Money & Me: 'I went from X Factor to having to sell my car to pay staff but now earn Dh130,000 a month’
The National · 9 Oct 2026

Money & Me: 'I went from X Factor to having to sell my car to pay staff but now earn Dh130,000 a month’

JJ Thompson has a very varied CV. He came ninth on The X Factor in 2013 as part of a boy band, spent years as a radio presenter before launching a podcast production company during Covid, which ultimately failed. Then, in June 2024, he walked away from a job offer at one of the UAE's biggest radio n


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