Lee Mead has admitted that he’s not sure if Cheryl Cole was ever intended to be a judge on the American X Factor series.

The Any Dream Will Do winner – who is married to Cole’s pal Denise Van Outen – told New magazine that he wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the sacking of the Geordie singer earlier this month was no more than an elaborate PR stunt.

Mead said: “The cynic in me wonders if it was all just a PR stunt.

“When I was in a talent show it did go through my mind that things might be manipulated for the press.

“But if not, she’ll dust herself off. Denise knows Cheryl and she’s always had nothing but praise for her.”

Nicole Scherzinger’s former manager Jeff Haddad seemed to reiterate these claims and he insists Simon Cowell always wanted his former client as a judge.

He told Heat: “Cheryl’s name never came into it.

“Cheryl was just being used as a cog in the wheel to cause hype and publicise the show. Nicole was never supposed to be a host.”

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Denise Van Outen has given birth to a baby daughter sources report.

Betsy Mead was born at 12.24pm and weighed 7lb 10oz, a representatives of the couple claimed.

Both mother and daughter are said to be doing well, with Van Outen saying she felt “ecstatic” about her new bouncing baby.

Denise and Lee first met while she judged him on BBC reality TV show, ‘Any Dream Will Do’. They were married in a secret ceremony last year in the Seychelles.

Denise said: “We are proud parents and very ecstatic.”

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Any Dream Will Do winner Lee Mead has been cast in the West End production of Wicked.

The former Joseph star will join the cast as Fiyero in May, the month that he and his wife Denise Van Outen are expecting their baby girl.

“I’m really excited to be returning to the West End in this incredible show,” said Mead. “Fiyero is a fantastic part and I’m looking forward to joining Rachel Tucker, Louse Dearman and the brilliant new cast at the Apollo Victoria.”

The show’s executive producer added: “With a wealth of musical theatre experience already under his belt, Lee was, from the outset, the one to watch in the BBC’s Any Dream Will Do.

“His much deserved win and subsequent performance in Joseph proved that he was an outstandingly talented leading man. I am really delighted that he has now chosen to make his return to the West End as Fiyero in Wicked.”

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Any Dream Will Do winner Lee Mead, has revealed that he is extremely excited about his and wife Denise Van Outen’s impending arrival.

He told the Sunday Mirror: “Me, a daddy! This is just the greatest thing that has ever, ever happened to me.

“I always wanted to have my own family, find a woman, settle down and plan a future together. Now it’s really come true and both of us are just so happy.”

Lee also revealed that he plans to be a very hands on Dad.

He stated: “I’ll be a very hands-on dad. I’ll be there changing nappies and getting involved.

“As soon as we can, we’ll find out whether the baby’s a boy or a girl, so I can talk to my son or daughter before they’re born. And it means we can decorate the room, of course.

“I’ve been reading books and gone online reading up about pregnancy. The baby is the biggest thing I’ve ever prepared for, bigger than any role I’ve played or any job I’ve done.”

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Denise Van Outen has spoken about her recent wedding with Any Dream Will Do winner, Lee Mead.

The pair got married on a beach in the Seychelles in April. They kept it completely private with only 17 friends and close family members.

“Everyone thought I’d want a big thing, but I know when things are meant to be kept private,” she told Grazia magazine.

She continued: “I want an album of wedding photos to show my kids, not a magazine.

“I had so many texts from people saying well done for not selling out. There were just 17 of us and it was really relaxed, really lovely.”

“After our honeymoon in the Maldives, I put on about half a stone,” she added.

“I’d gone very soft round the waist. But that’s what your wedding and your honeymoon are about – I let myself go, ate everything in sight and drank cocktails at sunset. But that’s what it should be. You can’t have a wedding and not eat the cake.”

The couple aren’t planning for the patter of little feet just yet, Denise says: “It’s just too much pressure, we want to enjoy married life.”

The full interview appears in Grazia magazine, on sale today (Tuesday).

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Denise Van Outen and Lee Mead enjoyed their recent secret wedding so much, that they are planning to recreate it for all their extended family and friends at home.

Last month Denise and Any Dream Will Do winner Lee jetted off to the Seychelles last month, where they got married with just twenty of their nearest and dearest in attendance. However Denise told The Mirror that they intend to have a second wedding in their new home in Kent for the rest of their friends and family.

Speaking at the She magazine’s Inspiring Women Awards Denise said: “We’re going to have a big celebration in September with all of our friends who weren’t there.

“We’re having it at the house we just bought in Kent, which means we have a lot of work to do. I’ve just got back from my honeymoon and I’m up to my elbows in DIY.”

On why they didn’t sell pictures of their wedding day, Denise said:

“Selling my wedding to a magazine was never an option because I didn’t get married to make money. Me and Lee just aren’t like that.

“We both have good careers and that’s how we make our money.

“We started planning a romantic getaway the moment he proposed.

“A lot of our married friends who had big days said they got stressed and ended up forgetting things.

“We only had 20 people and I remember every minute. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I’m so happy.”

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Lee Mead has admitted that he has no plans to watch Gareth Gates as he reprises his role in the West End show ‘Joseph.’

Lee landed the role when he won BBC reality TV show ‘Any Dream Will Do’, Gates replaced Mead earlier this year.

“I don’t think it’d be fair for him to have me in the audience checking out his performance,” Mead told Celebs On Sunday magazine.

“I hear he’s in great shape, but you need to be when you spend most of the show prancing around in a loincloth.”

Gareth will need to make sure he doesn’t go commando under that loincloth as Lee revealed: “I only ever had one wardrobe malfunction, when the loincloth flew off into the orchestra pit. Thank God I had my boxer shorts on underneath.”

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So I admit that I am loving Sky One’s ‘Hairspray The High School Musical’, mostly because I would have so loved to do what they are doing as a teenager, but somehow I can’t see Denise Van Outen in a West Belfast grammar school!

I was so jealous of the girls on the show tonight as they got to spend the day with the delectable Lee Mead. I saw the man in a loincloth during a recent performance of ‘Joseph’ on the West End, but it just wasn’t enough!

Is anyone else watching Denise’s show on Sky One? Is anyone else a bit doubtful that the kids can pull off a performance of that magnitude with just a few days of rehearsals left to go?

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We recently reported that Britain’s most famous WAG, Coleen McLouhglin, was being dropped as the face of Asda. Now it seems as though the supermarket chain may have found her replacement.

The Sun has today reported that Joseph star, Lee Mead, has been approached by Adsa bosses about a major advertising deal.

‘We love the Technicolor dreamboat and his other half. They are very stylish,’ a spokesman for Asda told The Sun.

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I’d Do Anything judge, Denise Van Outen, has just raised in my estimations once again, as she reveals that she refuses to make money out of her romance with Joseph winner, Lee Mead.

“I’m not hiding our relationship, but I don’t want to be a celebrity couple,” Denise told Celebs on Sunday. “I don’t want to make money out of us being together.

“We’ve been asked about advertising his ‘n’ hers mobile phones. People have even started asking if we’d do a fly-on-the-wall documentary and I’m like: ‘No!’ If I ever got married I’d never sell my wedding.”

Denise also gave her opinion on Kerry Katona and her new reality TV show.

“I’m obsessed with Kerry’s TV show, but I don’t want to expose my relationship in that way,” she explained. “I’ve always prided myself on working, doing an actual job, but to be a celebrity with nothing to back it up, to just have a column in a magazine and do a commercial… that’s not much of an achievement, surely?”

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