June 8th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
Grease is the Word judge, Sinitta has admitted that she once stole an outfit from pop legend, Kylie Minogue.
She told Attitude magazine: “I stole one of Kylie’s costumes. When we toured together in Japan we were both given these kimonos and I just thought Kylie’s was nicer than mine so I got one of my backing dancers to take Kylie’s and put mine in my place.
“I still have it, and in fact I wore it on Grease Is The Word. It was many years ago, but now she knows.”
June 4th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
The two girls voted off Saturday nights Grease Is The Word have spoken to the press today to state that they believe the show has been fixed from day one.
Shocked Alison said: “I think the judges have had an agenda from day one. They’ve known all along who they wanted for the parts regardless of how anyone else performed. All the contestants know it – it’s so obvious.
“I didn’t expect them to get rid of me like that. I wanted…a fair decision. That didn’t happen.”
Alison also told The Daily Mirror newspaper that she believes the judges are tryoing to kmake sure that Susan McFadden and Danny Bayne win the show. Read more & comment »
June 3rd, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
Vicky Hoyles and Alison Crawford have missed out on appearing of the Grease Is The Word final and were voted off the ITV TV show last night.
Alison was first eliminated by the judges and Vicky left on the later public vote.
Susan McFadden and Michelle Antrobus will join Danny Bayne and Anthony Kavanagh in next weeks final when the winners will win the roles of Danny and Sandy in a West End production of Grease.
May 31st, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
After Simon Cowell’s recent criticism of the ITV TV show, Grease Is The Word, it seems that David Ian cannot wait to praise the show and his fellow judges.
He told Now magazine Read more & comment »
May 27th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
It’s Anthony Kavanagh and Danny Bayne who are heading to the finals to battle it out against each other for the lead West End role.
It was a testosterone affair tonight in an all boy semi-final tonight as the final four Danny’s go head to head, and with only two places available in the show?s final in two weeks time, the pressure was really on.
Heading to the finals, and one step away from the lead role are Danny Bayne and Anthony Kavanagh after both winning on the public vote. Read more & comment »
May 25th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
Grease Is The Word may be trailing in the ratings but the stage show is clearly not suffering from the same problems.
The publicity from the ITV TV show, Grease Is The Word, has resulted in over £5 million pounds in advance sales for the stage show, due to launch this summer.
An ITV source told The Mirror: “We might be behind in the ratings but our sales are best.”
The lead roles of Sandy and Danny will be filled by the winner of ITV’s reality show.
May 24th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
Simon Cowell has suprisingly joined the ranks of critics of ITV’s new reality TV show, Grease Is The Word.
The Daily Mail reported that Simon, who is on the production team of the show, commented:
“Grease Is The Word is not going as well as I had hoped. It has been slaughtered by critics and rightly so. It is far too similar to our other formats.”
As the show still has five weeks to run I can’t imagine Simons comments will help the ratings any!
May 23rd, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
The Grease Is The Word house has turned from friendly to frosty according to Wayne Smith who left the show last week.
“When we all moved into the Grease house four weeks ago, we got along and used to hang out together. But now the cracks are starting to show,” Wayne told the Daily Star Sunday. “It’s getting extremely competitive. Read more & comment »
May 23rd, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
There was a huge shock in store for the contestants at the end of the show last Saturday. After the losing couple left, David Ian revealed that from this point on the contestants will compete INDIVIDUALLY. Having been able to rely on a partner for support and encouragement, each contestant must is now out for themselves. Read more & comment »
May 14th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry.
Grease is The Word judge, David Gest, has invited Radio One DJ, Chris Moyles to dinner aftre being banned from his show.
Gest was late for Moyles’ show last week and Chris angrily declared:
“I’m shaking I’m so angry.”
But David Gest wants to make amends and stated:
“I’d like to take him to dinner, if we can agree a time that’s not too early.”
