X Factor judges Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh have reportedly tipped Olly Murs to win the show, despite the fact that neither are mentoring him.
The Mirror reports that during a secret poll for ITV2’s The Xtra Factor, both stars backed Olly Murs to win the series.
A source said: “Louis and Cheryl have both admitted to picking Simon’s act Olly. They think he’s the most likely winner. It’ll be tough for their own acts to take, but it’s the truth.”
The final eight X Factor acts are reportedly set to earn £100,000 on this year’s live tour, proving that it is worthwhile to enter the X Factor, even if you have no chance of winning.
The Sun reports that half of the money is made up from pay cheques and the other half from bonuses and an unnamed finalist from last year said: “The tour is the most lucrative part of being on the show. Even if you don’t win, it can set you up for life.”
An X Factor spokeswoman said: “We do not discuss any financial details of contracts for the tour.”
Project A singer Laura Henderson has warned Stacey Solomon that life will be hard if she dates fellow X Factor contestant, Olly Murs.
Laura and Olly met at X Factor bootcamp and dated until just last month, however the 21 year old said that fans of the singer made her life hell and she is glad to be out of the relationship.
X Factor contestant Olly Murs has been reportedly shared his first snog with fellow contestant, Stacey Solomon.
A source told The Mirror: “It’s only in the last few days that they have been getting very affectionate and touchy-feely towards each other – and it looks like the first X Factor romance of the year is well underway.
So we just brought you Jamie and Danyl’s attempt at a live lounge performance. The whole thing seemed incredibly contrived and Danyl wouldn’t get his big cheesy mug away from the camera. We get it Dan, you’re a happy go lucky kind of fellow, who gets along with everybody. Point made!
The 26-year-old was pictured today with his hand in plaster cast and reportedly sustained the injury when hitting a punchbag in the X Factor house.
A Talkback Thames spokesperson told The Daily Mail: ‘Olly has a boxers fracture in his right hand after hitting a punch bag in the gym area at the contestant house on Tuesday afternoon.
Former Take That singer Robbie Williams is a BIG fan of the X Factor. Since appearing on the show and mentoring the contestants a few weeks ago, he has become very vocal on the subject and this week he has admitted that he quite likes to watch John and Edward Grimes.
“Here’s the thing. What do you look forward to every week on that programme? For me it’s Jedward,” Williams said.
If you thought Olly Murs had a bit more get up and go during his performance on last week’s X Factor, you won’t be surprised to hear that he had a injection in his bum just before the show.
Olly had been unwell throughout the week and as well as administering nasal sprays, painkillers and other traditional methods of treatment, doctors also gave him a injection of antibiotics in the bum to speed his recovery.
The 26-year-old told The Mirror: “I’d been feeling under the weather all week and it was a bit of a concern for me leading up to Saturday night.
X Factor singer Olly Murs has split from his girlfriend Laura Henderson.
Laura announced the news of the couple’s split on her Twitter page. The pair met at the bootcamp stage of the show, where Laura was also auditioning with her girlband, Project A.
She wrote: “I am not going out with Olly!! Sorry to disappoint, but leave it now guys, getting annoying.”
X Factor singer Olly Murs has admitted that he used to fancy former Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham.
“My first celebrity crush has got to be Victoria Beckham. I was a massive Spice Girls fan back in the day, when I was about 16,” he told the ITV1 show’s official website.
X Factor’s Joe McElderry has reportedly ‘broken a rib’ after a prank went wrong. Lucie Jones and Stacey Solomon were trying to play a prank on Olly Murs, when they managed to injure Jo instead.
Speaking on the official X Factor site, Stacey said: “This week me and Lucie decided to prank Olly but Olly was in a bad mood.
“We went downstairs with a bottle of water and the plan was that Lucie would open his pants and I would pour the water, but Lucie chickened out last minute because Olly was getting angry saying ‘get out of my room’.
X Factor contestants Olly Murs and Jamie Archer have paid homage to their favourite judge Cheryl Cole, by performing a ‘Live Lounge’ style cover of her single ‘Fight For This Love.’
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