X Factor UK Headlines for 09/25/11

New JLS single finally released in full, nearly half of XF contestants sent home from bootcamp before even singing, Matt Cardle took a gun to school, One Direction due to star in a road movie charting their rise to stardom. Chart Updates!

JLS – Take A Chance On Me (Lyric Video)

Is this the most brutal X Factor bootcamp ever? Nearly half of contestants axed by judges before even singing
Every year on The X Factor, the acts are faced with the prospect of more and more twists included to make the programme more watchable for viewers.

But now, as the ITV talent show enters the latest stage of the competition, it seems this year’s bootcamp could be the most brutal ever – with half of the contestants axed before even singing for the judges again.

The night before the 186 acts were due to take to the stage to perform for judges Gary Barlow, Tulisa Contostavlos, Kelly Rowland and Louis Walsh, the panel once again looked over tapes of the contestants’ first auditions and made the decision to send nearly 40 of the hopeful acts home.
Read more: The Daily Mail

Love is in the air: X Factor’s Frankie Cocozza and Beccy Shaw share sexy jacuzzi session before spending the night together
He was always going to be one of the most talked-about contestants on this year’s X Factor.

And Frankie Cocozza has got things off to a flying start after hitting it off with fellow contestant Beccy Shaw at bootcamp.

At a welcome party for the hopefuls at a London hotel, Frankie was seen getting ready for the party, telling his friend he had already received a text from Beccy with her room number on it.
Read more: The Daily Mail

X Factor in hot water over ‘sleazy’ drink-fuelled tub party screened before the watershed
The X Factor was embroiled in a fresh sleaze row after screening raunchy scenes from a contestants’ drink-fuelled party before the watershed.

The ITV1 show was accused of ‘not taking its responsibilities seriously’ after it featured scenes of bikini-clad youngsters getting drunk, kissing intimately and frolicking in a hot tub.

The footage, which was broadcast on Saturday at 8.15pm, was filmed over the summer during a welcome party for 186 contestants at the show’s so-called Bootcamp stage.
Read more: The Daily Mail

Jade Richards and Samantha Brookes are put through on X Factor bootcamp… as Lizzie Colbourne is sent home for forgetting her lyrics
X Factor contestant Jade Richards vowed to ‘start believing’ in herself after getting through to the next stage of the hit ITV talent show.

She was one of around 60 acts chosen to sing at Wembley Arena in front of a 5, 000-strong audience after impressing the judges at the bootcamp stage.

Richards, from Buckhaven in Fife, said: ‘I’ve got to start believing in myself.’
Read more: The Daily Mail

X FACTOR 2011: Kelly Rowland ecstatic to get the girls category while Gary gets the boys, Tulisa has the groups and Louis gets the overs for judges houses
She is no stranger to girl power and has spent years singing with her sisters as part of Destiny’s Child.

So Kelly Rowland was ecstatic to have landed the girls category and the eight young female hopefuls couldn’t have looked happier as they learned they were heading to Miami as part of the judges houses section of the X Factor show.

After finding out her group the American told the girls: ‘Oh boy we are going to have some fun.’
Read more: The Daily Mail

Goldie quits X Factor … for making fun of her and using her as a ‘joke act’
The X Factor has been plunged into fresh chaos after a finalist walked out on the show over fears she was being used as a ‘joke act’.

Goldie Cheung is the first person ever to have chosen to quit after being selected for the talent contest’s live rounds.

The 49-year-old mother of two – who wore skimpy outfits and wrapped her leg around judge Gary Barlow’s neck during her audition – was one of 16 acts picked to move into the X Factor ‘house’ in Hertfordshire.
Read more: The Daily Mail

Mum took me to police station in a blazer too big for me and said.. ‘My son’s got a gun’ Says X Factor winner Matt Cardle
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, the former public schoolboy confessed: “I did take a Beretta handgun into school when I was 11.

“I was at a posh private school in Essex, then my dad got made redundant and we went to the local school down the road.

“I went round to a mate’s house and he said he had a gun.

“He was worried his dad had rumbled him and was searching for it. I gave him my dad’s fishing knife and a tenner in a swap deal.
Read more: The Sun

INTERVIEW: Matt Cardle
If you were Matt Cardle right now you would have reason to be pretty angry.
You won the X Factor, you’ve been flat out working on your debut album and then just weeks before you release your debut album teenyboppers One Direction – who lost against you – release their debut single, cause nationwide hysteria and go straight to the top of the charts.
“They’re competition and it is s*** that they got to release before the winner of the actual show, ” Matt, 28, says. “It’s also worrying me that if One Direction decide to get slicker and go for more of an older market – which I think they might do – then I’m stuffed too.
“I just hope I’ll be able to cement myself into the charts before that happens. Otherwise I’ll be fuming. At the end of the day James Morrison, Coldplay, Adele and everybody else are all competition – so I can’t win unless I have an album that does the talking – and I think it does.”
He actually blames the fact he’s taken his time on his first album since winning the show as the reason everything has been screwed up release wise. The singer adds: “If I had my album finished by the time Cher Lloyd and One Direction released their tracks in the charts then I would have been really bothered. But the truth is I wasn’t finished. It’s my own bloody fault taking my time on this record.
Read more: DeanPiper.com

One Direction… The movie! The X Factor stars chart their rise to stardom with a new film (and a little help from Simon Cowell)
Not content with the number-one success of their first single What Makes You Beautiful, X Factor’s One Direction have set their sights on bigger things.

The boys are due to star in a road movie charting their rise to stardom.

And the band’s creator Simon Cowell has agreed to stump up half of the £150, 000 cost.
Read more: The Daily Mail

‘I can’t wait to be a mum!’ X Factor star Charley Bird announces pregnancy after hiding news for fear she would be thrown off ITV show
She was one of the stand-out performances on last weekend’s X Factor.

But now it has emerged 2 Shoes singer Charley Bird hid the fact she was pregnant from producers on the ITV show because she was scared she wouldn’t be allowed to continue on the programme.

The 22-year-old singer, who auditioned with fellow Essex girl Lucy Texeria, is said to have decided to keep her happy news quiet for fear it would affect the duo’s chances of reaching the live finals.
Read more: The Daily Mail

Is the X Factor dream over for Scots hopeful Jade Richards?
GARY BARLOW said her X Factor audition performance “is going to change your life” – but it seems Jade Richards is back at college.

The 21-year-old from Buckhaven, Fife, has returned to join her classmates at Carnegie College, where she is studying photography.

After her audition, she said: “I’ve been accepted for my next year at college. If I manage to win, I’d probably give it a miss for a year.”

If she has missed out on the live shows, it’ll be a bitter blow for Jade.

This year was the fifth time she had auditioned for X Factor and she was an early favourite to win.
Read more: The Daily Record

How low can X Factor go? Contestant’s porn video shame revealed as another is axed because of her criminal record
X-Factor has been dealt a double blow after two of its contestants became embroiled in scandal.

The show has hit a new low after it was revealed Lascel Wood, a hot favourite to win, was caught performing a sex act on himself in an online video while female contestant Sian Phillips was axed from the show because of her criminal past.

Twenty-year-old Lascel will be appearing on X Factor tonight and tomorrow to see if he makes it through to the bootcamp stages.

But he has denied making the porn video and refused to comment.

However, a source close to him said someone else could be responsible for putting the video on the internet.
Read more: The Daily Mail

X Factor 2011: Mum of star Kitty Brucknell threatens to pull her out of show over bullying
X Factor livewire Kitty Brucknell’s mum last night threatened to pull her daughter off the show – furious she’s been turned into “a monster” and a “panto villain”.

Angry Mary Edwards says she is shocked at how the 26-year-old is being portrayed and revealed how Kitty was viciously bullied by rival wannabes at Boot Camp.

She told the Sunday Mirror: “It’s very distressing to see Kitty being put under so much pressure and getting upset.

“If something happens and it looks like it’s getting too much for her I will not hesitate to tell her enough is enough because it’s unfair to let her keep suffering.”
Read more: The Sunday Mirror

X Factor’s Tulisa Contostavlos gets Olly Murs jolly wet
PLAYFUL X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos stunned singer Olly Murs by leaping into his bed sopping wet with Caroline Flack after the girls took a dip.

Olly’s Xtra Factor co-host Caroline had joined Tulisa for a late-night swim.

The ITV talent series runner up, 27, was fast asleep when the girls dived on to his bed in Greece during the judges’ houses round.

Tulisa, 23, and Caroline, 31, had been downing cocktails before the prank.

An show source said: “It was hot and they went for a late-night dip to cool off.

“They’d been hammering the drinks and decided they would go and pay Olly a visit. He was asleep as it had been a long day and the next thing they jumped into bed with him and started writhing around.”
Read more: The Sun

He’s got her attention! Meet the buff soldier who exchanged numbers with Cheryl Cole
This is the buff soldier who exchanged numbers with Cheryl Cole.

Andy Baker plans to meet up with the former X Factor judge after the pair met during her morale-boosting trip to Afghanistan.

The pair were introduced at an award presentation at Camp Bastion and met again a barracks dinner.
Read more: The Daily Mail

Is it showtime again Dannii? Ms Minogue hints at Britain’s Got Talent judging slot
She’s done The X Factor and Australia’s Got Talent.

So judging the British version of the latter seems like the obvious next move for Dannii Minogue.

And last night the 39-year-old hinted she may well step into the judging hot slot on BGT, recently vacated by comedian Michael McIntyre.
Read more: The Daily Mail

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The UK Radio Airplay Chart
3 Olly Murs – Heart Skips A Beat Label: Epic Plays: 4, 227 Impacts: 51.30m LW: 2
6 One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful Label: Syco Plays: 2, 890 Impacts: 49.45m LW: 11
21 Will Young – Jealousy Label: RCA Plays: 3, 474 Impacts: 30.07m LW: 4
22 JLS ft. Dev – She Makes Me Wanna Label: Epic Plays: 2, 602 Impacts: 29.26m LW: 17
24 Matt Cardle – Run For Your Life Label: Columbia Plays: 1, 284 Impacts: 27.90m LW: 38
52 Kelly Clarkson – Mr. Know It All Label: RCA Plays: 1, 068 Impacts: 15.02m LW: 81
54 Leona Lewis – Collide Label: Syco Plays: 1, 770 Impacts: 14.86m LW: 28
This chart is compiled by www.radiomonitor.com.

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Irish Charts
Singles
1 One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful
11 Leona Lewis/Avicii – Collide
17 Olly Murs – Heart Skips A Beat (feat. Rizzle Kicks)
25 Will Young – Jealousy
32 JLS – She Makes Me Wanna (feat. Dev)
46 One Direction – Na Na Na
49 Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger

Albums
12 Jedward – Victory
29 Will Young – Echoes
50 Jedward – Planet Jedward
54 Joe McElderry – Classic
74 JLS – Outta This World

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The Official Charts
Dappy (Tulisa’s bandmate from N-Dubz) scores his first solo #1 single. One Direction end the week at #3. Kasabian have #1 album. Joe McElderry’s album Classic is surprisingly still selling well – #4 this week.

Singles
1 Dappy – No Regrets
2 Maroon 5 – Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)
3 One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful
4 Jason Derulo – It Girl
5 James Morrison – I Won’t Let You Go
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8 Olly Murs – Heart Skips A Beat (feat. Rizzle Kicks)
10 Will Young – Jealousy
18 Leona Lewis/Avicii – Collide
38 JLS – She Makes Me Wanna (feat. Dev)
58 Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger
80 Jennifer Hudson – Love You I Do

Albums
1 Kasabian – Velociraptor
2 Ed Sheeran – +
3 Adele – 21
4 Joe McElderry – Classic
5 Tony Bennett – Duets II
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8 Will Young – Echoes
45 Olly Murs – Olly Murs
65 Will Young – The Hits
86 JLS – Outta This World

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