The X Factor team on the cover of Weekend magazine.
Zayn Malik Is So Lit Right Now
When Zayn broke off from One Direction, he immediately started dating supermodels and making hit records of his own. Here he tells us what’s next on his rise to the top.
There is no electricity in the tiny sea shanty where Zayn Malik would like to have a conversation about Zayn Malik. No heat and no real floor. Just darkness—and the underfoot lick of London’s dead-black Thames.
And yet, near midnight, when our pirate hero (singer/musician/T-shirt maker) Zayn bursts through the rusty-hinged door, home from sea to his shanty (an unfurnished, pitch-dark toolshed his people thought would be maximally “chilled,” as Zayn suffers severe anxiety), he’s in a good mood.
Read more: GQ
‘I’m being blessed by God at the minute’: Zayn Malik talks about his style, success and why he believes in fate in brooding magazine shoot
His decision to break away from One Direction has done wonders for his career.
Now Zayn Malik explains he feels like he has been ‘blessed by God’ due to all his recent success.
Speaking to GQ magazine, the singer explains that he has been inundated with offers, not only in music, but in fashion too.
Read more: Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE ‘He mesmerised me’: Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall on finding ‘love at first sight’ with Jed Elliot… even though SHE did the chasing
One of her bandmates is getting ready to settle down and get married, while two are currently enjoying the single life after big relationships.
But Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall revealed in an exclusive chat with MailOnline she is happier than ever now that she’s found love with her rock star boyfriend, Jed Elliot.
And though things are better than ever with The Struts bassist, the 23-year-old singer revealed she had to ‘chase him for a few months’ to get the result she wanted.
Read more: Daily Mail
‘It’s like therapy’: Perrie Edwards speaks out about writing the new Little Mix album.. after her painful break-up from Zayn Malik
Perrie Edwards has had a whirlwind year following her broken engagement to Zayn Malik last year.
But the 23-year-old blonde beauty appears to be doing well, and is working on a new album with band Little Mix.
Speaking about the new music, which she is recording alongside bandmates Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirlwall and Leigh Anne Pinnock, she described the process as ‘therapeutic’.
Read more: Daily Mail
Pink-haired Perrie Edwards flaunts her abs in sheer co-ord set while Jade Thirlwall wears racy plunging bra top and thigh-split skirt on night out
As one half of girl band Little Mix, it’s fair to say that Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall have forged something of a strong friendship.
So it comes as no surprise that the pair were pictured partying at Steam And Rye bar in London on Saturday night.
The pair both flashed the flesh in their daring outfits, both choosing to wear co-ord outfits which suited their styles perfectly.
Read more: Daily Mail
The X Factor’s Craig Colton unveils incredible 4st weight loss… but admits he ‘is still plagued by crippling insecurities’
He shot to fame on 2011’s installment of the X Factor, trading in the floor of the factory floor for the stage.
But fans may have struggled to recognise Craig Colton from his days on the show during a TV appearance on Mondays, as he showed off his dramatic weight loss.
Appearing on Loose Women to chat about his battle to shed some of his 16 stone bulk, the 27-year-old singer revealed he is still plagued by insecurities.
Read more: Daily Mail
‘I wouldn’t have it any other way’: Shirtless Ray Quinn is unrecognisable as he displays the results of his remarkable body transformation
It’s been ten-years since he shot to fame as the pint-sized young singer with a penchant for sharp suits and Frank Sinatra on The X Factor.
But while his pop career stalled in the decade that followed his appearance on the long-running talent show, the years have clearly been kind to Ray Quinn in other ways judging by his latest sizzling series of shots.
The 27-year old revealed his increasingly muscular physique in new snaps previewed during an appearance on breakfast show Lorraine.
Read more: Daily Mail
Ex Factor: Sharon Osbourne slams former judges Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw as ‘unfit to be on the panel’ as she returns to the show
She’s never been one to mince her words.
And Sharon Osbourne has revealed she believes Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw were unfit to be ‘X Factor’ judges.
The 63-year-old star is returning to the talent show this year and took aim at two of the judges from 2015, arguing they did not have what it takes to be a success on the programme.
Read more: Daily Mail
We’ll put the fizz back into The X Factor! After last year’s poor ratings, Simon Cowell’s re-hired his dream team and they promise to revive the show
Most of us look at pictures of ourselves 12 years ago and marvel at how young/thin/fresh-faced we looked. But then most of us aren’t Sharon Osbourne.
Mrs O – a woman whose relationships with others might be a bit rollercoaster but who seems permanently on good terms with her cosmetic surgeon – has been poring over publicity photographs taken from the early years of The X Factor when she was one of the original judges between 2004 and 2007.
In them she’s snuggling up to her old mates (and sometime adversaries) Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh. She falls about laughing at how ‘hideous’ they all looked, united in some unspecified frumpiness.
Read more: Daily Mail
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The Official Charts
Singles
1 Major Lazer – Cold Water (feat. Justin Bieber & MO)
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16 Clean Bandit – Tears (feat. Louisa Johnson)
25 Fifth Harmony – All In My Head (Flex) (feat. Fetty Wap)
35 Olly Murs – You Don’t Know Love
37 Fifth Harmony – Work From Home (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)
38 Snakehips – Cruel (feat. ZAYN)
69 Little Mix – Hair
Albums
1 Blossoms – Blossoms
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27 Little Mix – Get Weird
100 One Direction – Made in the AM
