X Factor UK Headlines for 08/21/13

X Factor UK returns on August 31st! Watch new 1D Key of Awesome parody!

Season 10 of X Factor UK is about to start soon! I will open a new post right before every audition episode and post the videos of the most notable auditions as soon as they are uploaded to X Factor UK’s YouTube channel and more coverage about the contestants. As usual, the first few weeks of the season will be a hunt to find the best live feeds possible. Expect season 10 spoilers here soon. :)

IT’S OFFICIAL: The X Factor Starts Saturday 31st August
And… we’re back! That’s right folks – if you have plans for Saturday 31st August, cancel them NOW because this is when The X Factor returns to your TV screens, at 8pm. And from the very beginning you’ll be getting a double helping of X Factor goodness as we’ll also be on Sunday 1st September at 8pm.

Excited? You should be.

To celebrate the 10th series of The Greatest Show on Television (you know it’s true) and to make it more exciting for you all at home we have made a few nifty changes.

First up, the room is BACK as part of our brand new X Factor double-whammy audition weekends.

That’s right, budding hopefuls will be doing their best to impress the judges in a face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball audition. It’s going to be intense, emotional, highly-charged and just plain scary – and the contestants will need to receive at least three ‘yeses’, before they can get through to the next round.

If they do, then they’ll face a slightly larger audience. 4,000 to be exact, at London’s Wembley arena where they could become one of the lucky ones to make it through to Bootcamp.

And, as you probably know (unless you’ve been under a rock recently), we’ll be seeing the return of rock royalty, Sharon Osbourne, to the panel. She’ll be joining Take That superstar Gary Barlow, US pop beauty Nicole Scherzinger and manager extraordinaire Louis Walsh, as they search for the UK’s next big music sensation.

So, what we’re saying is… it’s going to be a good‘un!

So tune in: Saturday 31 August, ITV, 8pm and Sunday 1st September at 8pm.
Source: ITV

The X Factor is BACK! – The X Factor UK 2013

Gary Barlow to leave ‘The X Factor’, says Dermot O’Leary
Gary Barlow is to exit The X Factor, Dermot O’Leary has revealed.

According to PA, the presenter said that the 42-year-old Take That star will “be leaving at the end of this year”.
Read more: Digital Spy

One Direction – Best Song Ever PARODY! Key of Awesome #75

Well, they are POP stars! One Direction kick off press conference for 3D film This Is Us with a very messy popcorn fight
They may spend most of their time travelling around the world without their families, have more tattoos between them than most adults and are constantly linked to older women.

But it seems One Direction are still big kids at heart as they proved during a press conference for their hotly-anticipated 3D film This Is Us on Monday.

Appearing alongside the film’s director Morgan Spurlock the boyband decided to start a massive popcorn fight before getting down to the serious business of discussing their film.
Read more: Daily Mail

‘Yes I do’: Liam Payne confirms he’s dating school friend Sophia Smith as he points her out at One Direction press conference
One Direction’s fans were sent into a spin over the weekend when it was rumoured that Liam Payne has got himself a new girlfriend.

And now the singer has confirmed he is indeed dating his old school friend Sophia Smith.

The 19-year-old – who split up with dancer Danielle Peazer in May – has recently started a relationship with Sophia, who he has known since they both attended St. Peter’s Collegiate in Wolverhampton.
Read more: Daily Mail

The wait is over! One Direction arrive to rapturous screams from 70,000 fans as the new fab five descend upon Leicester Square for This Is Us world premiere
It was the moment One Direction fans had all been waiting for – the chance to get a glimpse of the boys as they descended upon Leicester Square on Tuesday night.

And they weren’t disappointed as Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Niall Horan all showed up for the premiere of their movie One Direction: This Is Us.

Thousands of One Direction fans had camped out in the area for a prime red carpet spot ahead of the screening.
Read more: Daily Mail

OMG… Harry kissed me! 70,000 girls go crazy with One D hysteria: No wonder Cowell’s got pounds in his eyes
The world went crazy yesterday in London’s Leicester Square.

The sun was shining, the birds were singing and thousands upon thousands of girls with ‘I love Harry’ and ‘I Heart Niall’ scrawled across their foreheads, cheeks, arms, legs, hands, necks and feet in felt-tip pen jumped up and down, yelled their heads off and wept.

They wore One Direction T-shirts, One Direction hats, One Direction necklaces and clutched One Direction dolls and banners that read ‘Harry You Wanna Marry me?’ ‘I love you Niall’ and ‘Louis I love your bum’.
Read more: Daily Mail

One Direction’s ‘This Is Us’ Film Premiere Causes Hysteria In London
The British capital rang out to teenage screams the likes of which has not been seen in decades as pop sensations One Direction hit the red carpet for the world premiere of “1D: This Is Us.”

Band members Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson rocked the red carpet amid ear-splitting decibel levels of screams from an estimated 70,000 fans. Leicester Square had to be sealed off by the police as the crowds swelled to capacity at the central London location.
Read more: Billboard

‘I feel like a father’: Simon Cowell makes light of his lovechild scandal as he shows his face at One Direction premiere (and takes exes Mezhgan and Sinitta along)
It was the question on everyone’s lips on Tuesday night – whether Simon Cowell would be bold enough to show his face at the One Direction movie premiere.

And being the bolshy music mogul that he is, Simon of course did turn up to the This Is Us screening in Leicester Square amid his current lovechild scandal.

The 53-year-old took a break from his current luxury yacht break in the Mediterranean to support his former X Factor stars as they launch their film.
Read more: Daily Mail

Welcome to the 1D world! Liam Payne holds hands with new girlfriend Sophia Smith as they attend the One Direction: This Is Us premiere after party
She’s known him since they were young school children but that still couldn’t have prepared Liam Payne’s new girlfriend for the madness of Tuesday night’s world premiere of their movie.

Liam confirmed reports he is dating his childhood pal Sophia Smith earlier this week and decided to put on a public display of unity as he brought her along to the screening of One Direction: This Is Us.
Read more: Daily Mail

‘The smell lingered like a huge cloud of candyfloss’: Elsa Mcalonan’s exclusive review of One Direction’s first fragrance Our Moment
The wait is nearly over. The much-anticipated fragrance from One Direction – Our Moment – goes on sale on August 25th at Harrods and is being described as the biggest ever celebrity perfume launch. The store has held off doing any additional promotion as the fragrance is likely to sell out within the first few days of going on sale.

The celebrity fragrance market grows bigger every year – with last year’s sales worth £255 million in the UK – and this year’s figures looking like they will top that.

We’ve come a long way from the first celebrity fragrance – L’Interdit – designed for Audrey Hepburn by Hubert Givenchy in 1957. To date, the most successful celebrity fragrance ever is Elizabeth Taylor’s White Diamonds, which followed the launch of her first fragrance, Passion, in 1989.
Read more: Daily Mail

‘It was the most nerve-wracking thing I’ve ever done’: One Direction’s Harry Styles admits that giving a speech at his mum’s wedding was his toughest gig yet
He’s one of the world’s biggest pop stars who has performed in front of thousands all over the world.

But Harry Styles has admitted that giving a speech in front of his friends and family at his mum’s wedding was the most nerve-wracking experience that he’s ever faced.

The 19-year-old, who was best man at the ceremony, has revealed that he suffered from stage fright before standing up in front of just 100 people at the small restaurant in the quaint town of Congleton, Cheshire back in June.
Read more: Daily Mail

Perrie Edwards’ mum confirms daughter’s engagement to Zayn Malik as star shows off diamond ring at This Is Us premiere
Perrie Edwards’ mum has confirmed her daughter is engaged to One Direction star Zayn Malik, after the Little Mix singer was spotted with a diamond ring at the world premiere of One Direction: This Is Us.

Although the couple posed up with their respective Little Mix and 1D bandmates at the London screening on Tuesday, all eyes were on the 20-year-old singer’s new accessory.

The X Factor star was wearing a diamond ring on her left hand with Perrie’s mum Debbie now confirming that Zayn, also 20, proposed to her daughter over the weekend.
Read more: Daily Mail

1D Talk About ‘This Is Us’ And Capital Congratulate Zayn On His Engagement

One Direction – Zayn Malik, Liam Payne & Louis Tomlinson interview – This Is Us

One Direction – Harry Styles & Niall Horan – This is Us interview

When Harry Met Zoella! – “One Direction: This Is Us” interview and giveaway!
http://youtu.be/o70ch7zTj9U

“It’s all about the tongue action!” – Louis, Zayn and Liam’s Strawberry Lace Race Challenge
http://youtu.be/VILUjktCKBY

Little Mix have re-recorded ‘Wings’ in Korean
Little Mix have recorded a Korean version of their marching bandtastic empowerment anthem, ‘Wings’.

The new version – called ‘??’ – appeared on the South Korean online retailer Melon yesterday and features verses sung mainly in Korean (the choruses are in English, however).
Source: Popjustice

PICTURED: Union J’s George Shelley leans in for a romantic kiss with Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson in intimate V Festival moment
It’s a match made in X Factor heaven, with one a member of a chart-topping girl group and the other part of an up-and-coming boyband.

And new pictures show Jesy Nelson and George Shelley seeming to confirm romance rumours by leaning in for a tender kiss as they cuddled up in the Virgin Media Louder Lounge at this weekend’s V Festival in Hylands Park, Chelmsford.

The Union J heartthrob looked utterly smitten as he nuzzled into the Little Mix singer affectionately, grinning from ear-to-ear as he held her in his arms.
Read more: Daily Mail

Why the no show, Jesy? Little Mix’s Nelson looks down in the dumps in London before skipping One Direction premiere alongside her bandmates
She looked utterly smitten when she was pictured in a clinch with Union J’s George Shelley at V Festival over the weekend, sparking new romance rumours.

But fast forward to Tuesday and Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson looked far from happy.

The singer was spotted looking down in the dumps as she wandered around London on Tuesday afternoon.
Read more: Daily Mail

Two for the price of one! Taylor Swift and Cher Lloyd delight 15,000 fans with a surprise duet of Want U Back
Cher Lloyd got a helping hand in her quest for stateside success when she joined Taylor Swift for a duet in front of thousands of fans.

The X Factor finalist was invited onstage while Taylor performed the first of two sold-out shows at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles on Monday night.

‘You didn’t think we would do a show here and not have a special guest?’ teased Taylor as she paraded across the stage in a white t-shirt and red skirt.
Read more: Daily Mail

Cher Lloyd Performs “Want U Back” with Taylor Swift!

EXCLUSIVE: Alexandra Burke to debut ‘sleeker… sophisticated sound’ with a free downloadable EP of six new tracks
Although she’s had a successful music career since winning The X Factor, her future seemed uncertain when she parted ways with her record company back in June.

But now Alexandra Burke is set to release an EP of brand new material after signing a management deal with US super league company KWL.

Featuring six exclusive tracks, #NewRules will be available to download at the beginning of September and features collaborations with the likes of Wretch 32.
Read more: Daily Mail

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