Here’s another one! For a supermarket demonstrator this lady surely has a voice on her. I didn’t think she was bad as the judges said she was……what do you think?

It may be the Big Brother final tonight, but that doesn’t stop me getting excited about tomorrow nights X Factor audition show.

Here’s a clip of Colin Will who was so sure of himself that he even placed a bet with the bookies. He mightn’t be much of a singer, but he sure is entertaining!

Kelly LeBrock

Aged 47

Food Heaven: Organic food, sausage egg and chips, HP Sauce, flourless chocolate cake

Food Hell: Nothing, except maybe tongue

Model and actress Kelly LeBrock is hungry to get into the kitchen, despite being afflicted with an injury, but she confesses that her real strengths lie elsewhere.

“I want to go back to work and I thought that taking part in this show would be a great way to learn how to be a better chef in the kitchen. However when someone asked me if I was good in the kitchen, I said I was probably better in the bedroom so we’ll see what happens!”

Best known for her role in the film Weird Science back in the 1980’s, which turned Kelly into a pin up for teenage boys across the world, she is modest about her enduring sex appeal.

“I am honoured that people remember me and that men out there might still love an old bag like me. But that’s 20 years ago so I hope that they are kind when they see me now.”

Having torn some ligaments in her right hand, Kelly has the injury strapped, but is confident that this won’t stop her taking on everything that Marco can throw at her. Read more & comment »

Anneka Rice

Aged 48

Food Heaven: Barbecued mackerel with salad and new potatoes, and bread and butter pudding with custard

Food Hell: Peeling potatoes

TV presenter Anneka Rice rose to fame as the jump suit clad presenter of Treasure Hunt and even more famously Challenge Anneka, and she cites her decision to take part in Hell’s Kitchen as the result of a family coup.

“When I mentioned Hell’s Kitchen and the training with Marco Pierre White to my kids they said ‘you’ve got to do it mum’. I’ve always had a real problem with it in my mind [cooking] because I have never really enjoyed it and just see it as something that has to be done. The kids reckon that Marco Pierre White might unleash some sort of passion in me for being in a kitchen. At the moment I just never cook if I can possibly help it – I would rather do the ironing, clean out a cupboard and sweep leaves up,” says Anneka. Read more & comment »

Paul Young

Aged 51

Food Heaven: Authentic Mexican food

Food Hell: Losing a finger to a sharp knife

Eighties pop icon Paul Young won fans around the world with his soulful pop music and is most famous for his number one singles ‘Every Time You Go Away’ and ‘Wherever I Lay My Hat’.

A self-confessed foodie Paul dreams one day of opening his own restaurant, and hopes Hell’s Kitchen will teach him the skills to do this.

“I dream of having a little restaurant of my own one day,” says Paul. “I’m not fooling myself that I’m going to be in the kitchen 24 hours a day, but to be able to have somewhere and know what it’s like in the kitchen because I’ve been there. This is a chance for me to get to know the brass tacks of cooking and the way a restaurant is run.”

Already an accomplished cook, Paul thinks he’s good enough to win. Read more & comment »

Jim Davidson

Aged 53

Food Heaven: Pie and Mash

Food Hell: Vegetables and vegetarians

Stand-up comic Jim Davidson is already joking that he’s going to hide the knives in Hell’s Kitchen!

The showbiz veteran says of Marco’s formidable reputation: “I don’t think he’s there to bully, I think he’s there to inspire people, but I am going to hide the knives!”

Jim says: “Seriously, I like cooking, and I thought this was the opportunity to learn off of the best chef in the world. If he says he’s only going to do it for a couple of weeks and then stop doing it again well then I’d like to be part of that.”

A fairly competent cook himself, Jim wants to learn more about the technical side of preparing food. In his repertoire he counts ‘all the roasts’, any Chinese dish, Thai, Indian and says he just ‘throws it all in’. He often ends up cooking mammoth family meals but says he can never get his timing right.

“At Christmas my girlfriend Michelle’s Mum and Dad came over and I was cooking for about 18 people, so I had this bloody great tin full of potatoes and of course the ones on the bottom were turning to mash and the ones on the top where like granite! It went horribly wrong and we had the worst dinner ever.”

Jim is really looking forward to learning all about the finer points of cooking, like how to poach more than one egg at a time.

“You know when you make a vortex in hot water to make poached eggs and you drop one in and the centrifugal force keeps it in the middle, where do you put the other six? You put them on the outside and they go splat and look like cooked snot! I want to know these things. And I want to know about joints of meat as well,” Jim says.

Jim is a true carnivore and absolutely loves his red meat.

“Vegetables are what food eats,” says Jim. “Cows eat vegetables! I’d steal from a vegetarian shop keeper because they wouldn’t have any energy to chase you. I reckon I eat a cow a month. I love red meat, tonnes of it. I eat my steak rare, alive, I just take its horns off and wipe its arse.”

Jim says at home he does all the cooking and he makes sure girlfriend Michelle does the washing up.

“I cook, she washes up, and she’s really good at it as well. She’s not very good when I’m in the kitchen cooking and stuff’s got to be done quickly, she’ll be over nattering to her mates.”

Jim’s career as a stand-up comedian means he rarely gets to enjoy good food on the road, by the time he comes off stage most restaurants are closed.

“I like steak cooked properly although you very rarely get it, especially in this country. Staying in hotels when I’m here on tour, the food is appalling. I’ve been in England four days now doing gigs and all I’ve had since I’ve been here is fish and chips four times.”

He was egged on to take part by his youngest children Charlie, 18, and Elsie, 13, whose words were: “Do it Dad you’ll be famous again!” But the former presenter of hit TV shows The Generation Game and Big Break says he doesn’t view Hell’s Kitchen as a means of reviving his career.

“Elsie wants me to be back on the telly again in England but I can’t be bothered. You spend half your life chasing celebrity and then the rest of your life trying to avoid it. I hate celebrity now, all these people who think they’re celebrities it’s just awful. I just really want to learn. I’m not bothered about it being filmed or anything like that, I want to do this because I like cooking.”

Jim says his favourite chefs include Marco, former Hell’s Kitchen chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, as well as Rick Stein and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall because they both love the British countryside.

“Gary Rhodes is a nice chap, he went out to Iraq for me to cook for the troops one Christmas. I run a charity called The British Forces Foundation and he went out and cooked for me there,” he says.

He then adds that Rick Stein would be in his dream political party.

“Prime Minister would be Jeremy Clarkson, Home Secretary would be DJ James Whale, Foreign Secretary Richard Littlejohn, and I wouldn’t be in it because I live in Dubai!”

Dannii Minogue will be jetting off to Ibiza next week, accompanied by her six favourite X Factor acts.

Once there she will have to choose her favourite three out of the six, to put forward for the X Factor live shows, but that won’t stop her having a good time while she’s on the infamous clubbing island.

“I’m thrilled to be going to Ibiza for The X Factor. But it’s going to be tough,” Dannii told the Daily Star. “The perfect star is unique. Talent, personality and a desire to be the next winner are the key ingredients. If we don’t find a talent as big as last year’s winner Leona, then we’ve failed. Read more & comment »

Former X Factor finalists, Eton Road have hit out at their mentor from the show, Louis Walsh.

Louis very publicly announced during the show last year that he was going to get these boys a record deal, but as yet this deal has not materialised.

“We’ve been left high and dry because Louis didn’t keep his word,” band member James Edwards told the Daily Star. “We’re very upset. It gives false hope to people on the show.” Read more & comment »

The Sun newspaper has reported today that ex Eastenders actress, Letitia Dean, is to make her TV comeback on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing this autumn.

Letitia was last seen on our screens as Sharon Rickman in Eastenders in 2006 and despite show bosses saying she was only taking a short break, she has not yet reappeared.

Last night, a source said: “Tish has taken a year off but she aims to make a big splash with her TV comeback.”

Former Big Brother housemate Emily Parr is furious with BB bosses after they retracted her invite to the Big Brother final.

She told The Sun newspaper:

“One of the promises made to me was that I would be there on the final night.

“But, at the last minute, they inform me they have changed their minds on this.

“I have followed the Endemol/Channel 4 ‘party line’ since my removal but they have not kept their promises.”

A record £5 million has been bet on Sam and Amanda Marchant to win Big Brother 2007, making them the most popular Big Brother housemates yet.

The bookies stand to lose a fortune if the girls win, as they were first given the odds of only 20/1 when people were sure Brian would win.

Ladbrokes spokesman Nick Weinberg said last night: “The twins will go down in BB history.

They’ve managed to steer clear of all the bitching and back-stabbing which has made them firm favourites amongst the punters. If they’re crowned queens of BB their army of fans will only increase. Read more & comment »

It has been revealed the Scary Spice herself has been lined up to compete in Dancing With Stars, the US version of Strictly Come Dancing.

The 32-year-old will be joined on the show by British actress Jane Seymour, singer Marie Osmond, Las Vegas performer Wayne Newton, boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and model Josie Maran.

I bet Mel B decided to take part after seeing the excellent reception her former bandmate, Emma Bunton received on the British show last year.

In a recent interview with Digital Spy, ITV’s head of entertainment blasted shows from rival channels.

When asked if he had been watching the current series of Big Brother, Paul Jackson said: “I have watched it a bit, because you kind of have to.

“Though I just don’t know how many more rather unpleasant foul-mouthed pole dancers I want to watch, getting their tits out and screaming at each other in the middle of the night.”

And in a swipe at the BBC, he added: “It’s kind of like EastEnders. Read more & comment »

We recently reported that former football star Paul Gascoigne, had been signed by BBC bosses to compete in Strictly Come Dancing. However, recent newspaper reports would suggest that Paul has been axed from the show before it even aired.

Fellow contestants in the show have already begun training and rehearsing their dance routines, however due to Gazza’s recent drinking binges it is thought that he is not fit to participate. Read more & comment »

As huge X Factor and American Idol fan, I was thrilled to come across this clip of Indian Idol, just airing in India at the minute.

So what do you think? Is it as good as our X Factor? We’d love to hear what you think below.