Remember Brenda Edwards from two X Factors ago? Well, I got an email from her son Jamal earlier today saying she’s been nominated for Best Reality Star in Screen Nation’s Film & TV Awards.
Brenda was one of our favourite contestants in the 2005 X Factor, and we were glad to see she went on to bigger things. That’s why we’d encourage everyone to go on and give Brenda a bit of support.
Anyone interested in what Brenda’s doing at the moment should check out her website.
An interview with X Factor’s Brenda Edwards is on GMTV today to tell the Great British public what life has been like since leaving the X Factor show.
Brenda spills the beans on the X Factor tour, and tells how she managed to win her stage debut as ‘Mama Morton’ in Chicago in London’s West End.
Well worth a read!
The Daily Record has revealed that Pop idol winner Michelle McManus is devastated at losing out on a top role in a West End Musical to X Factor runner up Brenda Edwards.
A source said: “Michelle had pinned all her hopes on getting the role of Mama Morton. She thought she was perfect for it.
“Michelle had been practising the songs and everything.”
“Michelle would love to be on the stage. She would be in her element. She’s trying not to let this knock get her down - but it’s hard when she had her heart set on it.”
Both women had auditioned for the part of Mama Morton in the hit stage production of Chicago, but last week the news broke that fiesty soul diva Brenda Edwards had been awarded the role.
But Michelle has not given up all hope and a source commented “by the summer, she’s hoping to have landed a starring role in another West End show.”
X Factor contestant Brenda Edwards has been starnely quiet since leaving the show last December.
However just this week we heard that she has signed up for the role of Mama Morton in the stage production of Chicago.
MSN reports
“Edwards makes her West End stage debut in the London production of the smash hit musical, with Anna-Faye Wright as Velma Kelly and Italian stage and screen star Luca Barbareschi as Billy Flynn.
Wright played murderess Kelly on Broadway, while Barbareschi played Chicago lawyer Flynn in the Italian tour of Chicago.
The musical closes at the Adelphi Theatre on April 22 before reopening on April 28 at the Cambridge Theatre, the home of the show when the first production opened there in 1979.
Chicago became the longest-running production to play at the Adelphi Theatre in October last year.”
Andy Abraham and Brenda Edwards runners up in this years X Factor competiton have been performing a duet on tour, and Andy admitted this week that if the fans enjoy the song he and Brenda are considering releasing it as a single.
He said “I think the duet will surprise a few people, but it’s a great up-tempo number,” he told the Daily Record. “It’s not a song that is completely new but I think it’s going be amazing.
“I don’t want to spoil it by telling you what it is just yet. We’ll have to see how it goes, but if people like it, we’ll look at releasing it as a single.”
It’s reported in The Mirror today that Brenda Edwards, the last female to leave the X factor show believes that she was voted off the show because most of the shows fans are women who prefer “cute young guys”.
The mother of two said “It’s definitely to do with there being so many women fans. You have a lot of cute young guys and they are far more likely to be voted for. That’s just the way it is so I wasn’t surprised I went out.”
But hopefully this isn’t the last we will hear of the soul singing diva, she commented : “I hope to release a record. Now I’ve had a taste of fame, I want more. Sharon is absolutely lovely and has promised me things.”
Oooohhh. These charts are getting harder to do. You’d think with less contestants, it’d be easier. Nope.
Let me just start by saying that everybody’s game has been raised to professional levels at this point. Much better than last year’s finalists if you ask me. Andy’s taken a bit of flack in recent weeks, but mostly suffers on song choice. When he stays in his comfort zone, no problems. So here we go:
That was tough. Now, let me hear your X-Factor chart for this evening’s show….
This evening’s X Factor just goes to prove that no-one is a dead cert in this competition!
After another two stunning performances from Brenda, we thought her position in the final was assured. When the results show came on, my two favourites to go were Andy Abraham or Journey South. The surprises began when Kate Thornton was handed the results card. She scanned it for a second and instantly looked shocked.
Shock number one: Andy was the first to make it through to the final. This confused everybody, and you could see Journey South wondering what the hell was going on. Predictably, Shayne Ward was the next name called. Journey South, at this point probably thinking they had no hope against the mighty Brenda.
Shock number two: Kate gives it her best bit of drama “And the final act going through to next week’s X Factor final (insert 20 minute pause here)…..Journey South.”
People in living rooms the length and breadth of Britain stared at each other in disbelief. Brenda? Gone? Cuppa?
Seriously though, I was completely gobsmacked! Brenda was such a powerhouse of talent and energy. In terms of marketability, I’d have ranked her second only to Shayne Ward, so to see her go at this stage was unbelievable! But it was the reactions immediately afterward that warmed me and even put a little lump in my throat.
Firstly, Brenda handled the eviction with so much dignity. Sharon Osbourne was in floods of tears and could barely speak when asked for her comments. Even Louis was caught weeping on camera as the tension from the competition started to show. Andy and Shayne were also visibly upset. Brenda was (reasonably) practical about the whole thing, even shaking Sharon at one point to pull herself together before going on to perform her final song.
Touchingly, as she sang her final song, Without You, you could see Brenda sensing the relevance of the lyrics and smiling about it.
A few minutes later, on the Xtra Factor, Ben Shepard was put in his place by Brenda’s husband when he was asked why he thought Brenda was axed this evening. “Well Ben, it’s because she got the least votes.” was his sharp reply!
Apparently Brenda has several offers of work from musicals, and she is now considering these. Best of luck to her - it’s an area to which she’d be well suited!
The competition heats up this week as each contestant gets to sing two songs each, the songs are as follows
Chico Slimani: The Time Warp by The Rocky Horror Picture Show cast and I Feel Good by James Brown
Journey South: Candle In The Wind by Elton John and Bad Day by Daniel Powter
Shayne Ward: Careless Whisper by Wham!and Take Your Mama by Scissor Sisters
Andy Abraham: Easy Lover by Phil Collins & Philip Bailey and When I Fall In Love by Nat King Cole
Brenda Edwards: I’ll Never Love This Way Again by Dionne Warwick and I’m Outta Love by Anastacia
Tonights show was a real mixed bag. There are a few acts that blew my socks off and a few that in my opnion don’t deserve to be there. Lets go
I think this week it is time to say goodbye to Chico or The Comway Sisters.
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