Unreality TV

Kelly Rowland showed just why Simon Cowell hired her as an X Factor judge, when she performed at the Essence Black Women in Music gala earlier this week.

The former Destinys Child star strutted her stuff at the star studded ceremony, held in LA’s Belasco Theater on Wednesday Febuary 8. She was dressed to impress, donning a gold jacket, leather hotpants, a white shirt and necktie and she wore her hair BIG for the occasion.

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Liverpool was bursting at the seams with X Factor stars this week, as three former contestants hit it’s nightclub.

Rebecca Ferguson, James Michael and Frankie Cocozza were all photographed in scouse-land on Wednesday February 8th and the trio seemed to be having a pretty amazing time!

Rebecca and James partied the night away in the Boutique nightclub, as they celebrated Michael’s 21st birthday. Other guests at his star studded bash included Desperate Scousewives star Jaiden Michael and The Only Way Is Essex shop beauty Billie Faiers.

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Marcus Collins has reportedly confirmed that his former X Factor mentor Gary Barlow is ‘definitely’ up for returning to the ITV show later this year.

The Liverpudlian singer was promoting his new single and album in an interview with The Daily Mail, when he revealed that the Take That star wants to stay on the judging panel of the reality TV show.
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The Big Brother team are heading to Manchester this week, to continue auditions for the summer series of the reality TV show.

The tryouts will take place on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th February 2012 in Manchester Central Convention Centre and there to meet and greet this year’s batch of hopefuls will be former Celebrity Big brother housemate Kerry Katona.

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Despite the fact that she left the Celebrity Big Brother house to a chorus of boos last month, former housemate Nicola McLean has admitted that she would love to present Big Brother when it returns this summer.

The WAG became one of the most unpopular contestants on this year’s series of the reality TV show, after she became embroiled in a vicous row with her former pal Denise Welch, in defence of American twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon.

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Scouse singers Craig Colton and Marcus Collins will meet once more, after they were both announced as performers at the 2012 Speke Hall Concerts in Liverpool.

The X Factor stars will both take to the stage for the event which will take place in their hometown on June 2 and will be joined on the bill by rock legends Status Quo and opera singer Russell Watson.

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X Factor star Chico Slimani and Sugababes singer Heidi Range have become the first of this year’s contestants to be signed for the Dancing On Ice nationwide tour.

The singers are both appearing on the ITV show each Sunday night and will now go on to appear alongside last year’s winner Sam Attwater, along with Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, when the tour begins in April 2012.

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Pauline Pearce has become a bit of a legend in and around London, after her brave behaviour during the riots there last year, but few would have expected her to show up on Britain’s Got Talent.

The 46 year old grandmother shot to fame last summer, when in the midst of the riots of 2011, she berated looters in Hackney, furious at their arson and stealing. In the middle of the night the grandmother gave an impromptu and impassioned speech, which then became a bit of a YouTube hit, with thousands of fellow Londoners agreeing with and supporting her actions.

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Cher Lloyd has admitted for the first time that being on the X Factor turned her into a monster.

The 18 year old star gave a brutally honest interview to The Sun’s Fabulous Magazine this week and revealed that the pressure, the hate and the attention all got too much for her during the ITV series and turned her into a person that she didn’t particularly like and it seems that no one else did either!

She explained:

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Let’s Dance For Sport Relief returns in just one week’s time and we cannot wait for the hilarity that is about to ensue!

The tongue in cheek talent competition has become a yearly tradition, as part of BBC’s charity efforts and this week it has been revealed that for the first show, we will be treated to a judging panel consisting of the side sidesplittingly funny Celebrity Juice presenter Keith Lemon, stand up comedian Greg Davies and chat show host Graham Norton. None of them know anything about dancing, but let’s face it, they will certainly be entertaining!

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