Music moghul, Simon Cowell has reportedly splashed out on a $5 million Los Angeles home for former X Factor winner, Leona Lewis, so she will have a permanent base there.

“Simon thinks she is absolutely amazing so he wanted to treat her,” a source told The People. “He’s so pleased with how hard she works and what a massive success she’s become. Even though Simon is very rich, he’s careful with money and doesn’t like to waste it.”

The insider added: “Leona’s a homely girl and isn’t at all flash so Simon got the idea to buy her something practical she would use. He sees a bright future for her. He thinks she can become a global star like Shirley Bassey or Whitney Houston.”

This week Leona became the first British woman to score an American number one single in over twenty years!

It’s hard to know who to believe today. The Mirror have published an article saying that Leona Lewis has just made her first million pounds, while the Sun is saying that she hasn’t got enough money to buy a house in her native Hackney.

The Mirror say that she bagged her first million after the royalty checks came rolling in for her hit number one single, Bleeding Love, which has also just hit number one in the US charts.

However The Sun is saying that Leona had to pull out of a house sale as the vendor upped the price by £100,000 to a total of £600,000 after they found out who she was. Leona then couldn’t afford to buy the house with her long term boyfriend, Lou.

So who do we believe? Well Leona’s dad has rubbished the millionaire claims saying: Read more & comment »

X Factor winner Leona Lewis may have to face throat surgery to combat recurring bouts of tonsilitis.

‘Leona has been consulting top throat surgeons in Britain and America,’ reveals a source to The Sun.

‘She has been told she could need an operation to put an end to the problem for good. Any operations are scary.’

The news couldn’t have came at a worse time for Leona, as she is currently heavily promoting her debut single ‘Bleeding Love’ in America and trying to make an impact across the Atlantic.

X Factor winner Leona Lewis appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show, singing Bleeding Love yesterday and blew the whole audience away.

Afterwards, Oprah announced: “A star is born!”

Leona’s single ‘Bleeding Love’ is currently number one in the US ITunes chart and is also the Billboard chart’s fastest sales gainer, guaranteeing her a place in the top 20 in the singles chart!

Is it just me, or does everyone else feel like they are a little bit invested in Leona Lewis? After all, it was us who voted for her to win X factor 2006. It is just fab to see her doing so well and not sinking into obscurity like so many other X factor ’stars!

Former X Factor winner, Leona Lewis will perform her new single for the first time, exclusively at the semi-final of Dancing on Ice.

Singing her Sport’s Relief single Footprints in the Sand, Leona will take to the ice for the performance, as Torvill and Dean dance around her in a new routine specially choreographed for the song.

During the results show, Leona will sing the double A side to her single Better in Time. Read more & comment »

It seems that X Factor winner, Leona Lewis has yet another celebrity fan in soul diva, Whitney Houston.

After Leona sang at music mogul Clive Davis’s do the diva told The Mirror: “My God, she’s a baby me.”

And Leona squealed: “I can’t believe Whitney knows who I am.”

Maybe the duet thats rumoured to be taking place between them isn’t so unlikely afterall!

Kelly Clarkson has offered X Factor winner Leona Lewis some words of advice on the music industry, and how to stay on top.

She tells Leona that she must remained focussed and willing to stand up for herself if she wishes to acheive any longevity in the pop charts.

The 2002 American Idol winner told The Sun: “If I’ve one bit of advice for her it would be that, no matter where you have come from, you must stick to your guns.
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Last years X Factor winner Leona Lewis has been asked to turn on the Christmas lights in London’s Oxford Street on the 7th of November.

The singer is expected to sing her number one single, Bleeding Love at the event.

Leona Lewis’ single, Bleeding Love has sold out at HMV stores in various parts of the UK.

New stock is being dispatched asap, and HMV have reported that Leona is on track to sell an astounding 250,000 copies of the song, making it the fastest selling single of the year so far.

X Factor judge Simon Cowell has this week blasted Take That for releasing their latest single, Rule The World in the same week Leona Lewis releases her bid for number one, Bleeding Love.

Simon told BANG Showbiz: “I am annoyed Take That have chosen to release their new single at the same time as Leona. I just don’t know why they would do that.

I am confused as to why Simon Cowell thinks that Take That owe Leona Lewis any favours. Wasn’t it enough that they sang with Leona on last year’s X factor live final, helping her win the XF title?

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For all you Leona Lewis fans who enjoyed her performance on last night’s X Factor live show, here is the video for her newest single, Bleeding Love.

Enjoy!

This Monday, all you Leona Lewis fans out there will have the chance to chat with her in a live GMTV webcast.

Leona is getting ready to release her second single ‘Bleeding Love’ as well as her new album Spirit. So if you saw Leona on tonight’s X Factor show and want to let her know what you thought, be at GM.TV at 9.30am on Monday morning!

Click on the image above to buy your very own copy of Leona’s, sure to be number one single, Bleeding Love.

X Factor winner Leona Lewis has revealed that she will be buying her first home later this year. It won’t be in the UK, but in LA where she will spend next year promoting her new album.

“We are promoting the album in the UK, then in America. So I want to buy a place in Santa Monica,” Lewis told the Sunday Mirror. “I love being by the beach and the Pacific Ocean.

“When I first moved out there I was really missing my family and my boyfriend. But my dream now would be to live in California in the winter and here in the summer. I’m going to buy a house there first. And maybe one in London later.”

Jamelia seems to think that if she slags off enough people in the press people will rush out to buy her records. It may work for Lily Allen but I’m not sure that Jamelia is going to have the same success.

Bitchy singer, Jamelia, has once again turned her vapid tongue to X Factor winner Leona Lewis in her latest attack.

She told The Sun: “When Simon stops all this stupid hype about her, that’s when we’ll see if she can deliver. Like every artist Simon has, she’ll fade into obscurity eventually.”

Jamelia added: “Only Will Young has been successful, and that was because he’s talented and cut ties with Simon. Leona is a poor man’s Mariah Carey.

“Simon’s lost it. He is disrespectful. Leona may be talented, but she’s not worked as hard as me or others in the industry – fact!”

I’m not sure if she is actually part of the scene or if the Leona’s recent appearances alongside the rich and famous are all part of a Sony BMG PR offensive, but Leona Lewis sure does seem to be going up in the world.

Just one short year ago, Leona wasn’t even sure if she had made it through to the X Factor’s final twelve acts, and now she is partying with the like of Kanye West and Rihanna. Read more & comment »