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  • Autumn Gardening Tips

    “Autumn is the mellow season, all the hectic flowering and reproductive activity of the summer is over. For the gardener, this is the time to start putting the garden to bed” – Alan Titchmarsh

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  • Candle Of Hope Lights Up St. Paul’s Cathedral

    At 6.30pm Saturday 13th October an Act of Remembrance and Renewal was held at St Paul’s Cathedral to launch the first National Hate Crime Awareness Week.

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  • Twitter Predicts X Factor Winner 2012

    The writing is on the walls it seems for the remaining contestants on this year’s X Factor as we delve in to the fully accredited and scientifically backed up ‘Twitter Winning And Theoretical Service’ (TWATS)… (it doesn’t exist).

    It was almost a certainty that Melanie Masson was going to be the casualty of Sunday night’s X Factor results show – and the TWATS numbers back it up.

    Taking a look at her Twitter stats, we discover that she was by far the most unpopular contestant of this, the tenth series of the UK’s biggest singing competition with a mere 30,500 followers, and Carolynne Poole who was voted off the previous week only had under 60,000 Twitter lovers at the time of her booting.

    Using this science we predict that if MK1, Christopher Maloney or Jade Ellis should find themselves in deadlock (which seems to be the way the judges are taking it at the moment) they may well face the chop with just 42,556, 51,459 and 80,955 followers respectively.

    Betting giant William Hill put that Jade Ellis’s odds of winning at 10/1. However her ‘On The Ground’ support, her fans, just don’t seem to reflect the bookies mood.
    If the number of followers on Twitter is any reflection on the proportion of real life fans then it should be easy to predict the outcome. Unsurprisingly the bookies’ favourites to win are in the top 3, with Union J topping the list with Lucy and Ella trailing a close 2nd and 3rd.
    So based on Twitter here’s our prediction for the over all winner of the 2012 X Factor

    Union J 288,626

    Lucy Spraggan 268 276

    Ella Henderson 221 799

    James MacArthur 220, 679

    Rylan Clark 174 363

    Jahmene Douglas 124,490

    District 3 123, 503

    Kye Sones 114,165

    Jade Ellis 80,995

    Christopher Maloney 51,456

    MK1 42, 556

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    Already Eliminated.

    Carolynne Poole 104,716 (her numbers at the time were around the 60,000 mark)

    Melanie Masson 30,500

  • GIG REVIEW: Joan Armatrading

    Ah Joan. Last night, I was lucky enough to see Joan Armatrading LIVE in Canterbury.

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  • COLUMN: Medium Rare

    We’re having a paranormal scarefest here at TheGayUK for October. I love a good fright film and a scary ghost story but am sad to say that I’m not much of a believer in real life. I did however once have a slightly more gullible side…

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  • TV REVIEW | American Horror Story

    Horror doesn’t get much more terrifying and much gayer than “American Horror Story”. Last year’s runaway success from FX is now available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray and is the perfect viewing for dark October nights.

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  • THEATRE REVIEW: The Hotel Plays

    There can’t be many people amongst us who aren’t fascinated by the thought of what other people get up to when we’re not looking.

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  • McFly To Release Greatest Hits

    Pop supergroup McFly return to the musical spotlight with brand new single ‘Love Is Easy’, followed by the release of their Greatest Hits album ‘Memory Lane’ on November 26th via Island records.

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  • INTERVIEW | Elegy Director Douglas Rintoul

    We managed to steal some time just before the press night with the director of ELEGY – a brand new hard hitting, emotionally charged, one man show about the plight of gay Iraqi refugees post ‘liberation’.

    Playing at the Theatre503 in Battersea until November 3rd 2012

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  • THEATRE | Viva Forever Cast Announced

    Producer JUDY CRAYMER has announced the cast of VIVA FOREVER!, the new musical written by one of Britain’s most brilliant comediennes and BAFTA winning writers JENNIFER SAUNDERS, (Absolutely Fabulous, French & Saunders) and featuring the multi-million-selling songs of THE SPICE GIRLS.

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  • THEATRE REVIEW | Austentatious

    Following a critically acclaimed run at the Laughing Horse Free Fringe in Edinburgh this year, the verbosely talented cast of the Milk Monitors begin their residency at the Leicester Square Theatre.

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