The hunt for Britain’s next classical music superstar is on and, for one exceptional young musician, the opportunity of a lifetime is within reach. The winner of BBC Two’s Classical Star will win a top record deal and the chance to launch their dream career.

Acclaimed musician and Classical Star Musical Director, Matthew Barley, is searching for a top-class performer who has the ability to broaden the appeal of classical music. Aged between 12 and 19, and already at least grade 8 in their chosen instrument, the winner must have that extra-special something to impress the prestigious judging panel.

Through nationwide auditions, 18 candidates have been shortlisted but only the best nine candidates will be selected to attend the Music Academy, where Barley has developed a rigorous and demanding three-week schedule. Read more & comment »

A fabulous new site is about to go live on Monday and I just had to give the Unreality TV readers some advance warning about a site that could change the way you watch TV forever!

Locate TV is like the Google of TV shows. Do you have a favourite show, movie or actor that you love to watch? Locate TV allows you to search for that show, film or person and see exactly when they will next be on your screen.

You can personalise your search results depending on what TV package you subscribe to (eg, Freeview, Sky, Virgin) and according to where you live (UK, Ireland or US).

My other half and I spent a great few hours that other night searching for all our favourite children’s TV shows. We where thrilled to discover that Fraggle Rock still airs on Boomerang, and while Thundercats is nowhere to be found, Locate TV did point us to the right website to buy a DVD of the show. Read more & comment »

Hooray!!! As if it wasn’t bad enough watching a show revolving around their petty arguments and seedy sex talk, now we get to see Katie Price (AKA Jordan the glamour model) and Peter Andre take on their own chat show.

Katie and Peter Unleashed launches on ITV2 Friday 19th October, 9pm. I wonder what B, C and Z list guests we can look forward to seeing on their couch?

Sinitta has revealed that she recently asked Simon Cowell if she could come on board as the fourth X Factor judge. He turned her down, but she is convinced that he said no because he was scared she would win.

Sinitta told BANG Showbiz:

“I asked Simon if I could be the fourth judge, but he wouldn’t let me. He said it was because he needed me to mentor his acts when he was doing ‘American Idol’ in the States.

“He told me he couldn’t do it without me and that I was Robin to his Batman, but I know he was just scared that I would beat him.

“In fact I think I even have a better musical intuition than Simon. I saw that Daniel and Natasha Bedingfield would be huge talents and told him to sign them, but he didn’t listen to me and they both went on to be very successful.”

Speaking at the skymag launch party at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom last night, she said: “I would definitely be better than Dannii. I don’t think she takes anything away from the show, I just don’t think she brings anything new.

“She is just like a mini Sharon, she even looks like her a bit. She is too polite and mimics Sharon’s compassion.

“They needed a new flavour and I would have brought that.”

Seriously? Is Sinitta out of her mind? Did she watch herself back on Grease Is The Word? Simon has shown his usual common sense by not letting Sinitta have anything other than a minor role in one of his biggest TV shows. As a judge, she would be awful. On Grease she was more interested in her own outfits and hairstyles than in the contestants performances.

Simon made the right call once again!

In tonight’s X factor bootcamp show, 38 year old primary school teacher Beverley Trotman, manages to bring out the soft side of Dermot O’Leary!

As Beverley explains why she is here, her emotional story has Dermot in tears. “If I can be that little bit of inspiration for them, on that stage, children who think that they are nothing, children whose parents who haven’t been there for them or maybe children who’ve had both parents. For them to see me try my best , to put everything into it – that’s more than enough for me”.

But it’s not enough for Mr Nasty himself, Simon Cowell, who tells Beverley that he wouldn’t have chosen that song… will Dermot and Beverley be in tears again?

Saturday 29th September at 6.05pm and 8.30pm on ITV1 followed by The Xtra Factor on ITV2 at 9.30pm

This week, the lucky contestants who made it through the audition rounds are welcomed to Bootcamp. The 14-24 Boys, 14-24 Girls, The Groups and The Over 25’s are brought together for the first time ever to eat, sing and sleep under the same roof. In another first, The X Factor Judges Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh and Dannii Minogue will work together to whittle down the contestants to just 48.

In the past, each category has had a separate Bootcamp. But that’s not the only change as this year Bootcamp is held in two stages. The first is held at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire where the contestants will fight it out for only 12 places per category. The final 12 are then taken to London for stage two where the pressure is on to perform on stage at The Apollo theatre where those sought after places are halved to just six. Read more & comment »

Victoria Beckham will reportedly be designing some costumes for fellow Spice Girls member, Mel B for her new role in American TV show, Dancing With Stars.

Mel B revealed:

“Victoria is gonna come to one of the shows. She is excited, she said, ‘I have to design your costumes’.

“We’re sorting that out at the moment as I’m very keen for Vic to put her stamp on my costumes. Everybody knows she has amazing style. Just look at all the different dresses and looks she pulls off and the trends she starts.

“I want her to help design a couple of my looks for me, so we’re sitting down to throw about some ideas shortly.”

Gillian McKeith, best known as the presenter of Channel 4′s ‘You Are What You Eat’, has reportedly signed up to front another Channel 4 show, Supersize Versus Superskinny.

The show will make obese people swap diets with skinny people and document the effects that these drastic changes cause.

The Mirror newspaper has reported that many professionals in the field have serious concerns about the show, and Dr Ian Campbell, Weight Concern medical adviser, said: “For the sake of entertaining people, this will replace one person’s bad diet with another’s bad diet.”

Counrty singer Dolly Parton has reportedly turned down an offer to become one of the judges on American Idol.

Dolly Parton is convinced she wouldn’t be suited to the role, as she would be too nice to contestants, and wouldn’t want to tell them that they “suck.”

She has however agreed to have a night themed in her honour and to spend some time backstage with the finalists helping them learn her songs.

She said: Read more & comment »

Actress Jayne Seymour has revealed that the training and first performance on American TV show, Dancing With Stars has left her absolutely “exhausted.”

She said: “I’m exhausted. I’ve been dancing all day and I’m going to be dancing all day tomorrow. It’s an amazing ride, it really is, but it’s so much fun and so exciting.”

The 56 year old star of Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman revealed that she has very little memory of her first performance on the show:

“I was terrified when I went out there and I worked really hard on it. I don’t remember a single moment of dancing there, I just remember suddenly it was over and somebody told me the judges had said something positive and I didn’t even remember that!”