X Factor finalists Rhydiaan Roberts and Leon Jackson are due to come face to face once more, this time at the Six Nations rugby.
The pair have been lined to sing the national anthem when their respective countries meet at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium in February.
Rhydian’s uncle Nigel said: “It’s one of his all-time goals and ideal as it’s Wales and Scotland.”
X Factor runner up Rhydian Roberts has claimed that his mentor, Dannii Minogue never ‘got him.’
“I genuinely don’t think she likes me!” he told The Mirror. “She’s lovely but I just don’t think she gets me at all.
“I think we grew closer as the competition heated up but she never liked me in the first place.
“But there you go. People in life are always going to like you or hate you.”
X factor runner up, Rhydian Roberts has revealed why he missed the shows wrap party this week.
Rhydian told The Daily Mail: “It’s Leon’s week and he should be celebrating and I don’t want people coming up to me saying, ‘You were robbed!’ Although it’s nice. I didn’t want to pull focus.”
Do you believe him? I’m not sure I do!
As the number of complaints flooding into OFCOM grows higher and higher, the mother of X factor finalist Rhydian Roberts has asked fans to move on.
Angela Roberts, 56, said the family now wants to put the incident behind them, telling the South Wales Echo: “We are just asking the nation to let it go and move on. The competition is overstaying.”
She added: “We give our very best to Leon as a family and look forward to Rhydian’s own career developing as it should.”
She might have a point. It’s not like ITV are going to strip Leon of his title anyway!
ITV have released a statement saying that there were “no irregularities” in the X Factor voting system on Saturday night.
Although OFCOM have received more than one thousand complaints from Rhydian fans claiming that they couldn’t get through when they tried to vote on Saturday night, ITV have stated:
“We know there are many Rhydian fans who are disappointed that he did not win, but the simple fact is that Leon won The X Factor fair and square.” They added that in the end Leon won “by a full 10% of the vote”. Read more & comment »
Media watchdog, OFCOM have revealed that they will be carrying out an investigation into Saturday’s X Factor result after receiving several hundred complaints.
Many Rhydian fans claimed that they couldn’t get through on phone lines while trying to vote for him, yet people were able to vote for Leon over and over again. I know, my elderly aunt voted for him 27 times!
X Factor fan Sylvia Wardley told The Sun: ‘Between six of us we tried to vote for Rhydian 55 times, but only got through twice. We tried Leon and got through straight away.”
Rhydian’s father Malcolm, 60, said: “Rhyd’s not a bad loser, but he feels the same as us about the result – and we think it’s fix. He believes it’s possible he was stitched up. He’s disappointed for himself and his fans.”
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A group of Welsh radio stations have decided to boycott X Factor winner, Leon Jackson’s debut single, over claims of voting problems for their local boy, Rhydian Roberts.
Swansea Bay Radio, Bridge FM, Radio Pembrokeshire, Radio Carmarthenshire and Scarlet FM – all owned by Town and Country Broadcasting have refused to play the song as they believe that many of Rhydian’s supporters were unable to register their phone votes on Saturday night, resulting in him losing the show.
“Our radio station presenters have been inundated with calls suggesting that during Saturday’s X Factor their votes for Welsh favourite Rhydian, supported by local Neath diva Katherine Jenkins, were not able to be counted as lines were jammed,” programme manager Gareth Davies told Radiotoday.co.uk. Read more & comment »
Now this is what an X Factor winner should sound like……in one word…..talented!
Compare Rhydian’s performance below to Leon’s Christmas song and it makes me wonder what the rest of Britain was listening to on Saturday night!
The Sun has reported today that despite coming second in ITV TV show, The X Factor, Rhydian Roberts has still managed to land a record deal with Simon Cowell’s company, Sony BMG.
The deal is said to include at least one album, and many even include promotion in the US.
But Simon is not the only one knocking on Rhydian’s door:
Rhydian told The Sun: “Andrew [Lloyd Webber] and I have communicated. My ambition is to play the Phantom at the end of next year.” Read more & comment »
Many Rhydian Roberts fans, who tried to vote for him win the X Factor on Saturday night have insisted that there was a fault with the phone system, that prevented them from getting through and registering their vote.
One fan, Emma Newton, told The Sun: “I tried and tried and tried to vote for Rhydian and the phone was constantly engaged.”
Samuel Legg, from Yeovil, Somerset, added: “I could not vote for Rhydian even after trying hundreds of times and constantly checking I had dialled the correct number. Read more & comment »
I am gutted! I spent most of last night’s X Factor press event, telling all and sundry of the press world how much Leon Jackson failed to inspire me and how furious I would be if he won, of course in saying that I managed to jinx myself and set him up to take the X Factor crown!
In an ideal world Leon would have left the show first last night…..in fact in an ideal world X Factor’s most boring singer would have left in week two. But in the real world Same Difference were the first act voted off the show last night, and when the result emerged I had an awful sinking feeling about what was to come.
Leon Jackson was the first to sing the winners single, ‘If You Believe’, his version was distictly underwhelming, especially in comparison to Rhydian’s flawless performance. Read more & comment »
In an interview with The Sun, X Factor finalist, Rhydian Roberts has claimed that he wants to win more than any of the other finalists on the TV show.
He says: “I’m always self-confident on stage and my performances have been pretty consistent, but the others have been growing. “Leon is really catching me up because he was so nervous at the start, and people like to watch that journey. Also the judges are bigging him up. So that’s my worry. I do love both the acts but it’s been getting tense in the last two weeks. There’s an air of competitiveness now which there wasn’t before.
“It’s a huge prize and we all want it. But I think I probably want it more than the others. And I think if you asked the others, they would agree. Read more & comment »
Katherine Jenkins has recently started dating Strictly Come Dancing stud, Gethin Jones. But now it seems that she may have another admirer on her hands.
X Factor finalist, Rhydian Roberts will be performing with Katherine tomorrow night on the shows live final and when
asked about his new singing partner, he gushed: Read more & comment »
I am so excited about this weeks X Factor that I might just wee my pants….OK, too much information I know, but the X Factor final is always one of the best nights TV of the year.
We have been provided with the contestants song choices for Saturday night, and based on those alone I think that Rhydian Roberts finishing in top position is almost a certainty. O Holy Night is one of those songs that touches peoples hearts when it is sang well, it was one of Leona’s best performances last year and Rhydian is sure to follow suit.
I’m not so sure about Jason Donovan singing with Same Difference. I think that out of all the acts, Simon Cowell’s remaining group have drawn the short straw. I love Jason, but when was the last time he had a hit record? I think I was about 13 at the time, and let me tell you, that wasn’t recently. And how many songs are written for three people? Jason and Sarah could sing especially for you while Sean does a groovy dance, but I don’t think it would be a vote stealer.
You’ll notice that I haven’t mentioned Leon. There is a reason behind this. I’m afraid that if we mention him too much, we may attract more attention and therefore more votes to the worst X Factor dancer ever. Therefore I am going to keep my lips buttoned and hope that there is a breakdown in the Scottish telephone network on Saturday night.
Anyway, enough of my ramblings…….here are the songs: Read more & comment »
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