Lady Gaga is one step closer to becoming a judge on the UK’s singing reality competition the ‘X Factor’. While not booked to a judge for the entire season, sources say Gaga is nearly locked-in for a guest spot on the forthcoming season
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Beverley Knight has suggested that Simon Cowell and the other X Factor judges give contestants advice designed for the cameras. According to Metro, the 100% singer made the comments after being awarded a place on the Birmingham Walk of Stars.
The X Factor judge Simon Cowell has reportedly told his fellow judge Cheryl Cole to leave her cheating husband after a three and a half year marriage with Ashley Cole.
It has been widely reported that Cowell is guiding Cheryl about her next move and offering her the confidence to feel that she can go it alone. A source close to Cowell said that Simon has been having fatherly chats with her. He feels Cheryl is his protégé since he put her on X Factor. He loves her to bits and is very protective of her.
I guess you all know, Alexandra Burke’s mom Melissa Bell was a member of British double award-winning Grammy act Soul II Soul. She was active at Soul II Soul from 1988 to 1997. Then she started another group called Soul Explosion at 1999.
And guess what? Alexandra Burke’s performing career started from Soul Explosion. And she and her sister Sheneice Burke are still featured as “Backing and Lead Vocals” on Soul Explosion’s Musicians page.
Susan Boyle, Take That and Alexandra Burke have signed up to sing on the Haiti charity single – a cover of ‘Everybody Hurts’ by R.E.M.
The acts will join the previously announced line-up of Cheryl Cole, Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart, JLS and Michael Buble for the single, which is being organised by Simon Cowell and The Sun newspaper.
GORGEOUS ALEXANDRA BURKE is barking mad with SIMON COWELL – because he’s banned her from having a PUPPY.
The X Factor supremo reckons Alex has too much on her plate to take care of a pooch.
She told me: “I really want a dog this year. Simon’s said I can’t have one as I’m too busy.”
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Let’s revisit the past. Video of 16 years old Alexandra Burke amazed all three judges (Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne) in audition of X Factor 2005. Louis Walsh said … we saw really interesting girl today. She has a great voice, real attitude and she has a really great career in music.
Simon Cowell has said that he has regrets about his decision not to sign JLS after the X Factor last year. The boyband were runners-up on the show after losing out to Alexandra Burke. The four lads were signed up by Epic Records in January after Simon passed on signing them to his own label [...]
A toddler is flying to America for life-saving treatment after Simon Cowell agreed to chip in “tens of thousands” of pounds. One-year-old Sophie Atay’s mother needed to raise £500,000 urgently to send her for pioneering cancer therapy. Sophie has received the best treatment UK hospitals can offer but if specialists at New York’s Memorial Sloan [...]