Wagner was a person who auditioned for The X Factor in 2010. He was put through to bootcamp, and failed to make it past the judges' houses, but came back to the show after his mentor (Louis Walsh), and the other judges, were able to bring back a person they eliminated to the show. Wagner was one of those four people. Wagner was on the show from then until the eight live show, where he was eliminated when being in the bottom two against Mary Byrne.