Results tagged “X-Factor”

A prison drama with X-Factor-style audience participation debuts at Waterloo East this month following a successful showcase at the Edinburgh Festival.

For the show's writer and performer Deborah Klayman and actor Ali Kemp this is their first project together and draws on their personal experiences in the field of mental health.

X Factor fans lined the red carpet outside The O2 this afternoon as the programme's judges arrived to launch the latest series.

New lineup - Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland, Tulisa Contostavlos - and old hand Louie Walsh were out ahead of this Saturday's show.

X Factor fans have been queuing in North Greenwich to get a glimpse of the best and worst in new musical talent.

The ITV show is holding three days of live auditions at The O2 from today (July 6).

X-Factor judge Simon Cowell was at Richard House Children's Hospice in Beckton on Wednesday to meet youngsters with life-threatening conditions.

The visit was to help raise awareness of the work of Children's Hospices UK for which Cowell is a patron. He spent time chatting to many of the sick children at the hospice who are not expected to reach adulthood.

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Wide Awake, Joe McElderry
Sony, £8.99
2/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Another helping of pop's equivalent to the ready meal hits the shelves

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Planet Jedward, Jedward
Absolute, £8.95
2/5

IN A NUTSHELL
You voted in haste, now repent at leisure. Unless you think a holiday camp karaoke covers of Teenage Kicks is a good thing.

Fame hungry wannabes descended on the Excel centre this week hoping to be the next Alexandra Burke.

The X-Factor auditions were held at the venue for the first time but some of the contestants were old hands.

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Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree, Diane Vickers
Sony, £7.99
2/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Diane Vickers long awaited debut album feels a little like someone filling obligations.

You've been a pint-sized soap star and a platinum selling singer. You've stepped out on the West End stage and survived two reality shows. But where do you go from there? If you're Ray Quinn, you get back on the ice.

The 22-year-old winner of 2009's Dancing On Ice is strapping on his skates for three nights at The O2 next month and is keen to reclaim his title.

Prepare to have your funnybone tickled when one of Britain's top comedians arrives at The O2.

Peter Kay brings his "Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour" to the arena on November 5, 6 and 7 next year, his first appearances at the venue and his first national tour for seven years.

Folk music might be a bit of a forgotten cousin in the British music scene but one of its brightest stars is heading this way for a show next month.

Singer Kate Rusby plays the Indigo2 on December 6 as part of her Christmas tour and for the Yorkshire-based artist it's a welcome return to live performance.

East London's very own Leona Lewis will make her touring debut next year and has included two dates at The O2.

The former X-Factor winner, who made her first live appearance at Hackney Empire last week, will play the arena on June 12 and 14 as part of a 10-date tour of Britain and Ireland.

By John Biggs

One of "my" two X-Factor contestants (they live in my constituency), Rachel, has been voted out. Stacey remains. There is an East End tradition of success from a modest start to which they both belong. Other examples of success from the East End are numerous - another, from a different field, comes to mind each morning as I walk through Whitechapel and glance up at the blue plaque marking the home of the founder of Tesco.

Hopefuls queued in their thousands for X-Factor auditions at the O2 this week.

DJ Chicken, a pair of brides and a threesome dressed as The Supremes were amongst the wannabes wanting to make it big in this year's competition.

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We are at a critical point in London’s political life, as the economy goes through bumpy times.

Should we dust down the history books of the ’30s and spend heavily to create jobs, support business and stimulate the economy, or should we let the fit survive, and allow the rest to fail?

Nigel Seeley - The Wizard of Odds - gives his tips on where to place your bets this week, with an X Factor battle for the Christmas number one set to start.

The Wizard was away last week in sunny climes on a whirlwind trip to meet the bookmakers based on the Rock of Gibraltar.