More info about new music releases, Rebecca Ferguson records a song for Downton Abbey soundtrack, is sued by Modest Management.
Olly Murs teams up with Flo Rida for new single ‘Troublemaker’
Olly Murs has reportedly teamed up with Flo Rida for his next single.
The singer will release ‘Troublemaker’ as the lead single from his third studio album Right Place Right Time.
Read more: Digital Spy
“Troublemaker” was co-written by songwriter and X Factor USA vocal producer Claude Kelly and produced by Steve Robson. Claude Kelly also co-wrote Olly’s #1 single “Dance With Me Tonight”.
Little Mix unveil cover for debut album ‘DNA’
Cher Lloyd reveals new single ‘Oath’ artwork
‘See you in court!’ Rebecca Ferguson’s tweet becomes a reality as she is sued by former managers for breach of contract
She may have enjoyed a summer full of successful gigs.
But now it looks like reality is hitting home for Rebecca Ferguson as she is being sued for breach of contract by her former mangers.
The soul singer split from Modest Management Ltd back in June and shortly afterwards she launched a scathing Twitter attack on her handlers.
The X Factor runner-up branded the company, which also represents Leona Lewis, Olly Murs, Little Mix and One Direction, ‘vile’ and ‘greedy venim’.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Get on Downton: Period drama recruits X Factor finalist for assault on hit parade
The Dowager Countess would no doubt disapprove. But Downton Abbey is to launch an assault on the pop charts with a “love theme” inspired by its leading characters and performed by a former X Factor contestant.
Don Black, the lyricist behind the Bond theme “Diamonds Are Forever”, has written the words to a new song, “I’ll Count The Days”, which will be used as the backdrop to the love story between the characters Matthew Crawley and Lady Mary. The thwarted lovers are, finally, to be married in the new series.
“I’ll Count The Days” is sung by Rebecca Ferguson, a former X Factor finalist. Decca, the record company releasing the album, which hits stores later this month, has high hopes that the love theme will become a chart-topper.
Read more: The Independent
‘So proud, so happy, so in love!’ Katie Waissel ties the knot with male model Brad Alphonso in secret ceremony
They got engaged just two months ago. But instead of taking months to prepare their perfect wedding and selling the pictures to a magazine, former X Factor contestant Katie Waissel and male model Brad Alphonso have tied the knot.
However, while the ceremony might have been conducted in secret, Katie was quick to tweet a picture of her happy day.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Stalker who visited home of X Factor winner Joe McElderry while he was in bath is convicted of harassment after leaving singer ‘shaken and upset’
- Joe McElderry says Ennis McBride, 53, turned up outside his home on Christmas Eve last year
- Told court he felt ‘creeped out’ after being ‘harassed’ by man from Stockport
- McBride claimed he was trying to contact singer to ‘interest him in opera’
- Stalker found guilty and given five-year restraining order preventing him from contacting the singer or his mother
Read more: The Daily Mail
I’ll prove Cowell was wrong to dump me: After winning X Factor and revealing he was gay, Joe McElderry was brutally dropped…now he’s out for revenge
Singer Joe McElderry, who won The X Factor in 2009 and Popstar To Operastar in 2011, celebrated his 21st birthday this year.
After three hit albums, a successful UK tour and twice singing before the Queen, he has treated himself to a house and a car.
It’s all part of his determination to recover from the humiliation of being dropped by Simon Cowell’s record label, Syco, after he was unable to sustain the initial success of having a chart-topping single, The Climb, and a hit debut album.
‘People said “Oh, poor old Joe”, but I never felt sorry for myself,’ he says. ‘I didn’t want anyone to wipe my tears and pat me on the head. I just picked myself up, dusted myself off and got back to work to show Syco they were wrong.’
Read more: The Daily Mail
Niall Horan and Liam: Payne our rent
ONE DIRECTION are savvy lads – Liam Payne and Niall Horan are still having almost all the rent on their flats paid for by their management.
The pair are living in the swanky north London complex where all five 1D lads were moved by their boss Simon Cowell’s Syco label after first hitting the big time.
The rest of the band – Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik – have all now moved out having bought places of their own.
Read more: The Sun
The XXX Factor
Lovers caught having sex in the bushes at Gary’s judge’s house
THE X Factor got the Sex Factor — as two young lovers romped in BUSHES at Gary Barlow’s judge’s house.
They were found at it just as Gary and sidekick Cheryl Cole were about to pick their final acts for the live TV shows.
Filming at a stately home in Northamptonshire was halted after producers spied movement in the grounds.
They feared it was paparazzi trying to snap Gary and Cheryl arriving by helicopter. But when security men raced over to the bushes they discovered a randy couple going at it “without a care in the world”.
Read more: The Sun
A-X-E Factor
Nicole and guest judges face chop…Mel B in
DESPERATE X Factor bosses are to axe guest judges and dump Nicole Scherzinger in a bid to halt the show’s ratings crisis.
The massive shake-up — which will also see next year’s launch put back to September — will aim to win back the THREE MILLION viewers who have deserted this year’s series.
Fiery former Spice Girl Mel B, 37 — who was has been a guest judge along with ex-bandmate Geri Halliwell, 40 — is being touted as a replacement for 34-year-old Nicole.
Read more: The Sun
Sealed with a kiss! Dermot O’Leary gives bride Dee a smooch as pair wed after 10 years together
They got engaged in New York last November after 10 years together.
And today (Friday) Dermot O’Leary, 39, and long-term girlfriend Dee Koppang tied the knot at an intimate wedding in a Kent village.
After the ceremony, Mr and Mrs O’Leary marked their union by kissing outside St Mary’s Church in Chiddingstone, where the pair had been worshipping for the past six months.
Read more: The Daily Mail
It’s Barlow in his boxers! Gary strips to his pyjamas for brooding GQ Style shoot as he insists, ‘I’ve NEVER been cool’
He’s made a name for himself in recent years as something of a fashion icon, rarely seen out of a dapper suit.
But Gary Barlow’s new shoot has seen the Take That singer in an entirely new light – as he stripped down to his pyjamas.
The 41-year-old heartthrob is seen clutching a mug of tea while wearing a pair of white boxer shorts, T-shirt and unbuttoned stripey pyjama top in the pages of the latest issue of GQ Style magazine.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘I’m not doing this for Simon Cowell… I’m doing it for my friend Gary’: Cheryl Cole on why she decided to join Barlow for X Factor
Cheryl Cole has revealed that she is only returning to the X Factor because judge and friend Gary Barlow asked her to.
The 29-year-old singer took to Twitter after Simon Cowell tweeted ‘Welcome back Cheryl’ to insist that she hadn’t make the decision to please her former boss, who axed her from her judging role on X Factor USA.
She instead wrote: ‘I saw Simon’s tweet. I’m not doing this for him. I am doing this for Gary as he’s my friend and he asked me to do it.’
Read more: The Daily Mail
So is Simon Cowell cracking up? 4am phone calls. 20-hour days. A ‘breakdown this summer’. But that’s not the half of it…
The clock stood at nearly midnight one Saturday night when Simon Cowell called on my mobile phone. He wondered, politely, whether this was the wrong moment to ring me to brief me about what a nice person he is really.
During the conversation — in the late spring of this year, just after the publication of a biography of Cowell by Tom Bower — he was as polite as he always is, but clearly under strain.
He admitted to me that he’d told his housekeeper not to bring him any newspapers for a few days because he hated the negative stories written about the contents of the book, covering everything from his affair with Dannii Minogue to his outlandish and expensive health regimes. Not long after that call, at 1.06am, I received a long email headed: ‘Personal note from Simon Cowell’, which he had dictated to his assistant, Jennie Paine. It was more than 1,000 words long.
I agreed to keep the conversation and the email private, but I am not breaking that confidence too much if I say that he wanted the world to appreciate his successes as a businessman, and as a creative person, and to accept that he is not a ‘monster’ when it comes to women — just someone who occasionally makes an off-colour joke.
Read more: The Daily Mail
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Irish Charts
Singles
1 The Script – Hall of Fame (feat. will.i.am)
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5 Little Mix – Wings
9 Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time
18 Cheryl Cole – Under The Sun
21 Amelia Lily – You Bring Me Joy
38 Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
46 Tulisa – Live It Up (feat. Tyga)
47 Loreen – Euphoria
57 Cheryl Cole – Call My Name
71 One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful
87 Tulisa – Young
97 Olly Murs – Dance With Me Tonight
Albums
1 The Script – #3
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10 One Direction – Up All Night
61 Olly Murs – In Case You Didn’t Know
78 Jedward – Young Love
88 Joe McElderry – Here’s What I Believe
91 Cheryl Cole – A Million Lights
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The Official Charts
Singles
1 The Script – Hall of Fame (feat. will.i.am)
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2 Amelia Lily – You Bring Me Joy
4 Little Mix – Wings
8 Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time
11 Tulisa – Live It Up (feat. Tyga)
13 Cheryl Cole – Under The Sun
35 Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
65 One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful
75 Cheryl Cole – Call My Name
Albums
1 XX – Coexist
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8 Joe McElderry – Here’s What I Believe
25 One Direction – Up All Night
39 Cheryl Cole – A Million Lights
57 Olly Murs – In Case You Didn’t Know
79 Kelly Clarkson – Stronger
