Laura White left the x factor a few weeks ago but things are already starting to look up for the X Factor evictee as its been announced that a duet with Adele is in the making.
“I was so excited when I heard what Adele had said because I am one of her biggest fans. She is incredible,”.
“I have spoken to her about it. She wants to do a duet and I really want to do it too, so it is just working out the timing.”
Her leaving the show caused a real stir with the general public and high profiled celebs such as Adele, who even complained to ITV about her dismissal - It even lead to a mentioning during commons question time.
“I think about all the people who have come out in support of me and I think I’m just little Laura - if you saw where I was from and I used to play tiny jazz bars to four people.
“When you leave The X Factor you think, ‘oh, is that it now for me?’ And I worked so hard to get there, but there are still so many people who believe in me,” she added.
Ricky Gervais has said that he doesn’t want want celebs David and Victoria Beckham to feature in future episodes of his hit TV show Extras.
The reason for this bizarre claim is because the couple worked with Sacha Baron Cohen for an Ali G sketch on Comic Relief and he feels it would be a copycat idea.
“The Beckhams would be huge and we could do loads with them but I think Ali G got in first,” he told The Sun.
“At risk of sounding like an egomaniac, working with the Beckhams would only interest me if it was my idea. It wouldn’t feel particularly exclusive.
“They are great but there is not a magazine that you open up and they’ve not been in.”
Ricky isn’t too beat up about it though because he is planning to book such Hollywood stars like Al Pacino, Danny DeVito or Michael Douglas for one-off episodes of the comedy series.
John Sergeant has been the real under dog from the beginning. He has two left feet and gets a fist pull of negative comments and low scores from the judges every week, however the public love him and vote him in regardless. Despite of this he feels its time to leave the show gracefully in case he wins.
Sergeant said:
“I am sorry to say I have decided to leave Strictly Come Dancing. It was always my intention to have fun on the show and I was hoping to stay in as long as possible.
“The trouble is that there is now a real danger that I might win the competition. Even for me that would be a joke too far.
“I would like to thank Kristina and all those viewers who have been rooting for me through the series.”
He has caused a right stir with the judges who have been appalled that he has stayed in this long. Arlene Phillips said he needed to work harder as it was unfair on other ’superior dancers’ who had been knocked out and Bruno Tonili has consistently showed his disgust at allowing him to stay in the competition.
“We are very sad to see him go,” said BBC One controller Jay Hunt. “We would have liked him to stay but we respect his decision to leave. John and Kristina will be performing a farewell dance this Saturday on the show.”
Since his decision to leave, everyone who slated him in the first instant seems to have changed their option and are now saying he should have stayed. I bet this wouldn’t be the case if he decided to come back!
Daniel Evans has defended his corner and smashes rumours that he used a ’sob story’ about his late wife to keep him in the show.
Evans wife sadly died soon after she gave birth to their first child. Before she passed away she had always tried to encourage Daniel to enter the X Factor but nothing ever came of it. She got all the required paper work to submit Daniel to the show and it wasn’t until after she died and he started to move her belongings he found the paper work. He felt it was his wife’s wish to enter the show and therefore showed up for the auditions.
Daniel was the under dog from the beginning and consistently received negative comments from Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell but still managed to hang on until this Saturday (week six of the live shows).
“When people were saying I had a sob story and I was using my wife’s death, that did hurt me a little bit, I would never play on it and I mentioned her because I was asked.”
The rumors began when during a sing off in one of the earlier live shows he dedicated his rendition of Josh Groban’s ‘To Where You Are’ to his wife.
“I honestly thought it would be the last time I ever sang on the show and the producers said, ‘You should sing something that’s really important to you’,” he explained.
“I sang a song for my wife because she got me onto the show so it’s only fair that I said goodbye on that note.”
Well it turns out that the rumours of Dannii Minogue not be returning to The X Factor in 2009 and being replaced by a young male star are false! She has insisted that she will be coming back.
This has been confirmed further by Simon Cowell, who has reassured her place in next years series.
Minogue said:-
I don’t pay attention to what everyone says,” she commented. “I am oblivious to the taunts. I just go to work and do my job and that’s all I’m focused on. I want to do it next year and I will be. As far as everyone involved is, that is the plan and Simon has said so.”
She has also banished rumours of feuding with new judge Cheryl Cole but admitted that working with Sharon Osbourne was a nightmare!
“This year is not as bad as last year because at least life on set is fun and everyone gets on. Last year was awful,” she said.
The first episode in the new series of Britannia High was expected to dominate the ratings when it was broad casted on Oct 26th but to ITV’s surprise, the teen drama didn’t live up to expectation and was smashed by BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
The Antiques Roadshow was first shown on our screens back in 1977 and has been a success for the BBC ever since. Michael Apel used to host the show but has since been replaced by Fiona Bruce for the current series.
ITV’s £2 Million show could only scrape together 3.3 million viewers whereas the oldies favorite took the lime light with 8.8 million viewers (38% share), who would prefer to watch local residence across the UK purchasing antiques.
ITV’s Britannia High is said to be a mix of popular programs such as ‘Fame’ & ‘High School Musical’ which follows the story of 6 preforming art school students. ITV has spent an awful lot on the show in advertising over the couple of months to draw in its target audience (youth) but was no match for the Antiques Roadshow cross generational appeal.
ITV bosses are still remaining hopeful saying that:-
Britannia High had made a solid start in a competitive schedule.
ITV still plan to go ahead with a the arena tour and single they had originally planned from the show. They are also planning to increase the shows awareness by launching a range of multi-media spin-offs such as creating personal pages for each character on social networking sites. The final episode of the series will see a live 75minute contest between the shows characters which ITV believes will be a great success.
Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross have been suspended by the BBC after a prank phone call was conducted on Jonathan Ross’s Radio 2 show back in October. The call was made to Andrew Sachs from Fawlty Towers which angered listeners and a massive 18,000 complaints were made due to the crude messages the pair left on Sachs Mobile, suggested that brand had f**ked his grandma and that he might kill himself.
Both Brand’s and Ross’s programmes they present have been taken off the radio and television pending an internal investigation. Mark Thompson, BBC director general made a lengthy statement about in incident:-
“I would like to add my own personal and unreserved apology to Andrew Sachs, his family and to licence fee payers for the completely unacceptable broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
“BBC audiences accept that, in comedy, performers attempt to push the line of taste. However, this is not a marginal case. It is clear from the views expressed by the public that this broadcast has caused severe offence and I share that view.
“Since Sunday, I have been in regular contact with the senior executives I tasked with handling this issue. The investigation that I instructed Tim Davie to conduct is nearing completion, and I am returning to London to review the findings and, in the coming days, announce what action we will take.
“In the meantime, I have decided that it is not appropriate for either Russell Brand or Jonathan Ross to continue broadcasting on the BBC until I have seen the full report of the actions of all concerned.
“This gross lapse of taste by the performers and the production team has angered licence payers. I am determined that we satisfy them that any lessons will be learnt and appropriate action taken. I have been asked to report to the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee before the end of this week and will discuss with the Trust the findings of the report and the actions I propose.”
It was only last Friday when Oscar winning Jennifer Hudson’s (Dream Girls) mother and brother were shot dead at their family home. Her nephew has been missing since, until now.
Police had launched a search for Julian King and a reward for $100,000 was offered by Julian’s family for his safe return.
Chicago police have now found the seven year old’s dead body in a car, abandoned on one of Chicago’s streets. The body was identified by Hudson at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
Police are still looking for the person responsible for the murders but as of yet no one has yet been charged.
X Factor Bosses were not at all pleased to find out that Beyoncé has agreed to appear on Strictly Come Dancing before she is to appear on the X Factor.
Beyonce is promoting her new single I am Sasha Fierce and had agreed to be on the X Factor in December however, Strictly has got her on there show in November!
“As far as we are concerned we are the No1 show on Saturday. If X Factor wants Beyoncé, they’ll have to wait. She has signed and we’ve also got Take That confirmed for the coming weeks,” a BBC source said.
An X Factor Source said “We aren’t happy Beyoncé is doing Strictly, but she is just one of a number of huge names we’re getting,” the source said.
Loud mouth Rachel Hylton is already at blows with Dannii Minogue because of her song choice for this weeks X Factor.
Dannii has insisted that she sing the dance hit ‘With Every Heartbeat’ by Robyn but Rachel is concerned as it is out of her comfort zone.
However, Minogue sticks to her decision. “I chose the song because I know she can do the job, I won last year and I know what I am doing,” she insists.
Hylton eventually relents, saying: “I am going to have to trust Dannii. She’s my mentor, she chose me for the final 12 and I am just going to fight for my place on Saturday night.”