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Mariah Carey is reportedly planning a £10,000 champagne party for this year’s X Factor winner. Mariah has already pre-recorded her performance for tonight’s result’s show and so impressed was she with the staff and contestants, that she wants to do something special for the winner.

A source told The Daily Star Sunday: “She’s been really impressed by everyone on the show and thinks whoever wins deserves to feel like a superstar.

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Olympic Athlete Jade Johnson has been forced to quit BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, after sustaining a leg injury last week. Jade decided to leave the show over worries that the torn ligament would cause her problems in her sports career.

“I am so, so upset that I am not able to dance tonight. It just makes me see what a wonderful time I’ve had and how much I’m going to miss it,” she said.

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X Factor twins John and Edward Grimes are reportedly being frozen out by the other contestants from the show. After the departure of talented singers like Lucie Jones and Jamie Archer, the acts are beginning to take their frustration out on Jedward.

An insider told The Daily Star Sunday: “The boys are really starting to feel like everyone hates them.

“They have been Public Enemy No.1 for weeks but the house was always their safe haven. But now they are also feeling the brunt there too.

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Danyl Johnson’s mum has blasted Simon Cowell and The X Factor today, claiming that they have set her son up to gain extra publicity for the show.

Maria Burgess says that Simon Cowell has favoured Olly Murs over her son from day one, giving him better songs and routines whilst Danyl is just used as tabloid fodder.

Speaking to The Sunday Mirror Maria said:

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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey will reportedly cook Christmas dinner for the Beckhams in their Hertfordshire home next month.

The Sunday Mirror reports that normally Gordon sends a chef from one of his restaurants to cook for them at Christmas, however all his staff have other plans this year.

A source close to the Beckhams told the newspaper: “Gordon wasn’t going to leave his friends in the lurch. There is no one better to be cooking your Christmas dinner, so David and Victoria can’t wait.

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Any Dream Will Do winner Lee Mead, has revealed that he is extremely excited about his and wife Denise Van Outen’s impending arrival.

He told the Sunday Mirror: “Me, a daddy! This is just the greatest thing that has ever, ever happened to me.

“I always wanted to have my own family, find a woman, settle down and plan a future together. Now it’s really come true and both of us are just so happy.”

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Michelle Heaton has admitted that she is worried about her pal Katie Price and thinks that she may be struggling on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity.

In what we would have assumed was against the show’s rules, Price gave a note for Heaton to the programme’s producers, which said: “I’m really worried if it carries on like this, I’ll end up cracking up. I’m really tired. I’m exhausted.

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Danyl Johnson’s diva like behaviour, is said to be having a negative effect on the other X Factor acts.

A show insider told The News Of The World that all the drama surrounding Danyl’s song last week, meant more time spent on his routine and less on everyone else’s.

They said: “This is bringing everyone down. Tensions are already high enough but it’s not right for one contestant to take so much attention.

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X Factor singer Joe McElderry has insisted that after weeks of judges sending the show into deadlock with their indecisiveness, the public should be allowed to decide what way the show works from now on.

Judges were unable to decide on a act to save for three weeks running and Joe told The People:

“I cannot comment on the deadlock situation.

“But I think the public should be allowed to choose the format of the show.”

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A former bandmate of X Factor’s Danyl Johnson has claimed that the singer has always been prone to diva like episodes, but insisted that he does feel remorseful afterwards.

After Danyl had a hissy fit over his song choice for this week’s show, Tim Bland, 27, who sang in boyband 2Tone with Danyl told The People: “I’m not surprised Danny walked out on Wednesday. It reminded me of all the times he threw a tantrum with us.

“Danyl is like a pressure cooker. He allows the stress, which is often over something minor, to build up for a long time and then bang – he explodes and all his anger floods out.

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The X Factor judges are said to be furious with Danyl Johnson over his reported diva like behaviour this week. Danyl reportedly stormed out of a vocal training session over his song choice and had a huge row with Simon Cowell later the same day. The News Of The World reports that if Dan ends up in the bottom two, the judges may eject him from the show as a punishment for his actions.

An X Factor source revealed: “They have to judge Danyl’s performance in the sing-off, but they can’t totally overlook how he’s acted this week.

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Alex Reid has reportedly been approached about appearing on the final series of Channel 4’s Celebrity Big Brother.

The News Of The World reports that Reid has been offered £100,000 to star on the show and a pal told the newspaper:

“They’re desperate to sign him up. It’s perfect for him because people will get to see the real person.

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Despite her recent newfound wealth, Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle has insisted that she won’t be moving to a posh new house.

Susan currently lives in a small council house in Blackburn, Scotland and when she gets her first royalty cheque next week, she won’t be splashing out on a new pad, instead she’ll buy the £80,000 house from her local council.

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X Factor bosses have reportedly ordered a step up in security around twins John and Edward Grimes, after haters left death threats on Facebook.

Several malicious groups have appeared on Facebook including, “John and Edward – Join if You Want to Kill Them” with 1,277 members and “John and Edward Need a Bullet Through Their Head?” with 690 members. One posting said: “ive found my sniper rifle, dose any1 have any bullets for a type 72 scout sniper i could borrow. jedward soon to be deadward.”

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Alex Reid is reportedly on his way to Australia, so he can propose to his girlfriend, Katie Price.

The attention seeking cage fighter has admitted that he is considering staging the proposal live on air….of course he is….it’s not as if he actually loves her now is it?

Reid told The News Of The World:

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