More X Factor UK guest performers announced, Rebecca Ferguson’s single to be released this Sunday, “Heaven” album tracklist revealed, more X Factor news!
X Factor UK guest performers:
Week 7: Rihanna & Rebecca Ferguson (Nothing’s Real But Love)
Rebecca’s single release was apparently pushed one week forward, to this Sunday, November 20th. Her album is up for pre-order on iTunes UK (and Amazon), and if you preorder, you get one song, Fairytale, instantly.
Week 8: Olly Murs (Dance With Me Tonight) & Jessie J (Who You Are)
Album tracklist: Rebecca Ferguson – Heaven
1. Nothing’s Real But Love
2. Glitter & Gold
3. Shoulder To Shoulder
4. Fairytale (Let Me Live My Life This Way)
5. Mr Bright Eyes
6. Fighting Suspicions
7. Teach Me How To Be Loved
8. Run Free
9. Diamond To Stone
10. Too Good To Lose
Watch Glitter & Gold video on Amazon UK!
Is Rebecca Ferguson the first credible star to come from reality TV?
The X Factor has been having problems this season. Tabloid headlines about the inadequacies of new judges, Autotune accusations, voting controversies and misbehaving contestants might all be part of the usual soap-operatic storylines, but they have been compounded by falling ratings.
Viewing figures have dropped by about two million and ITV’s flagship show is regularly trumped by its kinder, gentler BBC rival Strictly Come Dancing.
But Simon Cowell’s glorified karaoke competition may be about to do the one thing its critics would never have imagined possible: produce a credible artist.
I am no fan of The X Factor. It might make good Saturday-night television, but its lowest-common-denominator instincts have been responsible for some of the most clichéd, over-produced and yet oddly flavourless manufactured pop of recent years. So, when I heard the debut single from last year’s runner-up, Rebecca Ferguson, I had to do a double take.
Read more: The Telegraph
The wow factor: Little Mix get a red carpet make-over and switch their casual fashion style for some grown up glamour (Tulisa, Little Mix and Kelly’s GIRLS at Twilight: Breaking Dawn pt. 1 UK premiere)
First they changed their name and now they have changed their look.
The X Factor’s Little Mix looked like a different group altogether as they arrived at the UK premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 at Westfield Stratford City, in east London.
Under the watchful of eye of their mentor, Tulisa Contostavlos, the girl band hit the red carpet looking like they had already won the singing competition.
Read more: The Daily Mail
X Factor Frankie Cocozza set for tour return
COKE-snorting Frankie Cocozza has been promised a slot on the lucrative X Factor tour — if he cleans up his act.
Bosses plan to announce the line-up of the arena tour today — WITHOUT the mop-topped bad boy on the bill.
Read more: The Sun
You don’t look that sorry to us! X Factor bad boy Frankie Cocozza staggers around drunk, and takes a troupe of women back to hotel with The Risk singer Derry Mensah
Frankie Cocozza has been offered a lifeline; clean up your act and you can join The X Factor tour.
But judging from last night’s antics, the wild child is back to his rebellious ways.
The 18-year-old didn’t exactly look like he was eating humble pie as he partied with a gaggle of women at Aura nightclub, chain smoking outside the venue and arguing in the street.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Another ‘quiet night’ for Frankie Cocozza
LOOKS like Frankie Cocozza is not letting his boot from the X Factor put a dampener on his party lifestyle.
The 18-year-old — who got the axe following boozy nights out and a cocaine sex admission — hit the town with The Risk’s Derry Mensah.
Frankie was spotted chatting to a number of girls outside Aura nightclub in central London last while smoking a cigarette.
But he left without a conquest at 3am, with pals having to drag him into a car outside the nightspot.
Derry seemed to have better luck. He left an hour earlier with a slew of mini-skirted women.
Read more: The Sun
‘I haven’t spoken to Gary, I can’t face him’: Frankie Cocozza’s shame over letting Barlow down
Frankie Cocozza left his mentor Gary Barlow ‘hugely disappointed’ when he admitted taking cocaine.
But a week after leaving the X Factor, the Brighton teenager admits he hasn’t spoken to the judge because he’s too ashamed.
Although Barlow tried to speak to him in the aftermath of the scandal, the 18-year-old feared he would ‘crack up’ if he spoke to the singer.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘It was the hardest decision of my life’: X Factor star Misha B’s estranged mother says she wants to reunite with the singer
She ran out on her daughter when she was just three months old, leaving her sister to raise her.
But now, after a 19 year absence, X Factor star Misha B’s mother, a reformed heroin addict, says she wants to be reunited with her daughter.
Florence Bryan has written an open letter to her daughter pleading for a reunion and expressing her pride at how well Misha has done on the ITV show.
Read more: The Daily Mail
‘I gave Peaches the wrong phone number!’ Cheeky One Direction singer Harry Styles reveals he tricked Geldof
He may only be 17, but One Direction star Harry Styles is proving to be quite the cheeky chappy.
The X Factor graduate has revealed he gave Peaches Geldof the wrong phone number, as well as opening up about his first sexual encounter.
It’s refreshing to see the boys be honest about their past, with management no doubt asking them to play down their liaisons with the fairer sex so they appear more ‘available’ to fans.
Read more: The Daily Mail
Kelly Rowland fancies kissing Tinie Tempah
TINIE Tempah is in line for a memorable Christmas present – Kelly Rowland is after a kiss under the mistletoe.
Asked who she wants to plant a Christmas smacker on, the X Factor judge Kelly revealed: “That would be Tinie. He has such gorgeous skin and the sweetest smile.”
Read more: The Sun
Cheryl Cole pulls out of Children In Need performance after she’s struck down by ‘pharyngitis’
Cheryl Cole has been struck down with pharyngitis ruling her out of a performance for Children In Need.
The singer had been due to collaborate with Gary ?Barlow for Children In Need Rocks Manchester on Thursday.
But she’s now been deemed too ill to perform due to her condition.
Read more: The Daily Mail
