December 22nd, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
Swing singer, Michael Buble enjoyed singing on stage with X factor winner leon Jackson so much, that he now wants to record a track with him.
“As soon as X Factor was over, Michael’s PA was straight on the phone to try to set something up,” an insider told The Mirror. “Leon couldn’t believe it. He was completely bowled over.”
December 22nd, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.

Celebrity Hijack is due to kick off on Channel 4 in only a week or so, and we have managed to find out what celebrities we can look forward to seeing on the show.
Heatworld has reported that the following celebrities will be taking on the role of Big Brother during the E4 series:
Matt Lucas
Jimmy Carr
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Keith Lemon
Malcolm McLaren
Joan Rivers
Brian Sewell
Ian Wright Read more & comment »
December 22nd, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.

Channel 4 has allowed us to see these pictures of a redesigned, revamped Big Brother house before the kick off of E4′s Celebrity Hijack this January.
The show will feature some of Britain’s most talented young people. We can look forward to seeing how MENSA members, star athletes, and young scientists cope under the watchful eye of Big Brother. BB of course will be played by different celebrities throughout the course of the show, Malcolm McLaren and Joan Rivers are thought to have already put their names down for the role!
Channel 4 said: “The identity of the celebs taking part remains tightly under wraps, but their aim will be simple: putting their stamp on the activities in the Big Brother house and generally causing mischief.”
Continue on down for pictures of the house’s hot tub, sleeping area and much more! Read more & comment »
December 22nd, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.

Former Mystique singer, Alesha Dixon is favourite to win tonight’s Strictly Come Dancing final.
Both Alesha and Matt Di’Angelo will perform five dances each, but Alesha is tipped 1/3, ahead of actor Matt Di Angelo on 9/4.
In saying that Rhydian Roberts was heavily tipped to won the X factor last week and look what happened there! You just can’t trust the British publicQ
December 21st, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
X factor runner up, Rhydian Roberts has revealed why he missed the shows wrap party this week.
Rhydian told The Daily Mail: “It’s Leon’s week and he should be celebrating and I don’t want people coming up to me saying, ‘You were robbed!’ Although it’s nice. I didn’t want to pull focus.”
Do you believe him? I’m not sure I do!
December 21st, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
Former X factor winner, Steve Brookstein, has offered some words of advice to this years winner Leon Jackson.
Steve was dropped by Simon Cowell’s record label after only 8 months, and his big recommendation is to keep Simon Cowell happy!
“[Leon] has got to be careful – he doesn’t want to fall out with Simon Cowell,” Brookstein told This Is Aberdeen. “They tried to get me to do a lot of cheesy things I wasn’t happy with when I was working for him and I said no. I was too long in the tooth for some things but maybe Leon should swallow his pride.” Read more & comment »
December 21st, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
It looks like Leon’s management have gotten to Emily Biggs from rival band Hope. She has now denied that there was ever any romance between her and the X factor winner. She told The Sun:
“There’s no romance but I’m pleased he won. He wanted to do it for his Mum. We spoke yesterday and he’s over the moon.”
If there never was any romance, then why have the pair only decided to deny it now? It all seems a bit fishy to me!
December 20th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
ITV1 gets celebrities to prove their worth in Star Traders: The Christmas Challenge
The Saturday night one hour event in association with the charity Shelter is hosted by Phillip Schofield. The show aims to bring together a celebrity duo whose challenge is to ‘trade up’ a small item of consequence into something outstanding and remarkable that can be auctioned off for charity.
The celebrity duo’s ‘trade up’ challenge could take them all over the country and to complete the challenge they must use every resource possible – celebrity friends, charm, brains and ingenuity will be a must. Read more & comment »
December 19th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
It looks like a certainty. Another Christmas, another X Factor number one!
Leon Jackson is so far ahead in the mid week chart with his Debut Single, ‘When You Believe’ that the only song with a chance of beating him is The Pogues ‘Fairytale In New York’.
So come on people, you know you love that traditional Christmas jingle…..offensive lyrics and all!
December 19th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
As the number of complaints flooding into OFCOM grows higher and higher, the mother of X factor finalist Rhydian Roberts has asked fans to move on.
Angela Roberts, 56, said the family now wants to put the incident behind them, telling the South Wales Echo: “We are just asking the nation to let it go and move on. The competition is overstaying.”
She added: “We give our very best to Leon as a family and look forward to Rhydian’s own career developing as it should.”
She might have a point. It’s not like ITV are going to strip Leon of his title anyway!