X Factor
Cheryl Cole married her French boyfriend Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini in secret earlier this month, the pop star has revealed. The 31-year-old X Factor judge said she had made the announcement to stop speculation about her private life. The pair had reportedly been seeing each other for just three months when they wed on the private island […]
Mel B has been named as the fourth X Factor judge in the 11th series of the ITV talent show. The former Spice Girl said she was “so excited” to be coming back and is reported to have signed a deal worth £1 million. The 39-year-old appeared as a guest judge on the show in […]
James Arthur has said on Twitter that he is no longer with Simon Cowell’s record label. He said he wanted to thank the staff there for helping make his self-titled debut album, which came out in November last year. In April the 26-year-old denied rumours that he had been dropped by Syco. The singer, whose […]
The US version of TV talent show The X Factor has been cancelled after three series following judge Simon Cowell’s decision to return to the UK show. The Fox network show has been unable to match the ratings success of Cowell’s previous singing contest American Idol. The X Factor USA’s audience dropped from 12 million […]
Former X Factor winners Little Mix are recording this year’s Sport Relief single. The girl group posed in running gear to announce they were helping the fundraising efforts by releasing a cover of Cameo’s 1986 single, Word Up. The single, which has also been a hit for Gun and Spice Girl Mel B, will be […]
Pharrell Williams saw out 2013 with his third UK number one single of the year, Happy, knocking X Factor winner Sam Bailey into second place. The 40-year-old previously topped the charts on Daft Punk’s Get Lucky and Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, with writing credits on both. Happy, a feel-good pop song featured in the hit […]
X Factor winner Sam Bailey has claimed this year’s Christmas number one, with her debut single Skyscraper. The former prison officer outsold her nearest rival, Pharrell’s Happy, by two to one to become one of the fastest selling singles of the year. Bailey, 36, said topping the festive chart was the “icing on the cake”. […]
One Direction star Harry Styles has won a court order stopping the paparazzi from harassing him. The 19-year-old applied to the High Court as a last resort, after asking photographers to stop following him voluntarily, his lawyer said. “This is not a privacy order,” David Sherborne told the court. “Mr Styles is not trying to […]