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  • Someone has bet a lot of money that Saara Aalto will win the X Factor

    Someone has bet a lot of money that Saara Aalto will win the X Factor

    Have you got £30,500 floating around? Yes? Then you could match someone who have bet that exact amount that Saara Aalto will win this year’s X Factor.

    Saara Aalto
    ©Thames / Syco

    An ambition/rich punter has bet a whopping £30,500 that Saara Aalto will win this year’s X Factor competition. Should she actually pull it off the punter will be in for an amazing £62,650 windfall.

    The bookies have suggested that Saara is now the favourite to win the competition.

    William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly said,

    “Saara has come from nowhere to become the red hot favourite to win the X Factor and there are plenty of people who have been backing her to win in recent weeks, not least our punter who has staked £30,500 on her in the space of the last seven days”.

    The singer who had a rocky start in her time with the juggernaut show said that she feared an anti-gay backlash and felt forced to live a lie after getting engaged to her girlfriend in the summer. She revealed that she and her girlfriend, Meri were the first gay female couple to come out in Finland.

     

  • Is Adam Lambert due to perform at the X Factor final?

    We’re hearing reports that American Idol legend Adam Lambert could be performing on the final of X Factor UK… We’re very very excited.

    Apparently, Adam Lambert could be joining Saara Aalto on stage this coming weekend for the now famous “duets” part of the final. Adam is just returning from a very successful stint as a judge on the Austrailian version of X Factor. However, producers for the UK version of the show are remaining tight-lipped about the rumours.

    Saara Aalto has become firm favourite to win the competition despite an incredibly rocky start to the competition. She was a wildcard entry for her mentor, Sharon Osborne, and for the first few weeks was forced to sing for her position in the competition after failing to get the voting public behind her. However, it’s all change as she’s become one of the most talked about singers this season – especially with the news that she’s now engaged to be married to her girlfriend, Meri.

    Saara Aalto
    ©Thames / Syco

    If Adam Lambert joins the finalists this Saturday he would join a handful of stars who have graced the X Factor stage for the usually very successful duets part of the final. Past megastars who have joined contestants include Rihanna who sang with Matt Cardle and Beyoncé who sang with Alexandra Burke, both finalists became the winners of the competition.

    Adam Lambert rose to fame during the 2009 series of American Idol, where he placed runner-up. He’s gone on to release three albums and sold millions of records around the globe. Earlier this year he celebrated his success on Spotify after clocking up over 100,000,000 streams of his music.

  • DANYL JOHNSON: I didn’t tell Dannii Minogue to F*** off

    In an exclusive interview former X Factor star Danyl Johnson has told THEGAYUK.com that he didn’t tell Dannii Minogue to F*** OFF when she seemingly outed him on national TV.

    Cast your minds back to 2009 when a former primary school teacher, Danyl Johnson, was rising to fame on the ITV hit show, X Factor. Speculation over his sexuality became the talk of the nation.

    During his rendition of the Dreamgirls hit, “And I Am Telling You” Danyl didn’t change the gender pronouns so he sang it about a woman, instead of a man. At the time the UK’s newspapers were in speculation overdrive about Danyl’s sexuality. At the time it was being reported that he was bisexual.

    Having spoken about changing the line to a male pronoun with the production team, Danyl had last minute thoughts, he said,

    “In my mind, I was thinking if it was week seven, maybe, but as it was week one, so I sang, ‘You’re the best girl I’ve ever known’. People are very open-minded these days, but it’s live in front of a lot of people.”

    In the end, he changed it to an opposite sex attraction.

    Dannii Minogue, who was passing comment on his performance questioned why he used an opposite sex pronoun saying,

    “If we’re to believe everything that we read in the papers, maybe you didn’t need to change the gender references”.

     

    Well in the footage, Danyl can be seen muttering something and people have thought for years that he told Dannii to “f*** off” but he’s revealed what he actually said.

    “Now a lot of people have rewound that moment. There was so much speculation about what I said underneath my breath. So many people thought I said, “F*** off ”.

    “But I was a primary school teacher, so I wouldn’t say that on live TV. I said, “I’m not ashamed”.

     

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  • Allegedly there’s a secret gay relationship in X Factor and no one knew

    Allegedly there’s a secret gay relationship in X Factor and no one knew

    So “close sources” have alleged that there’s been a gay relationship in X Factor…

    Simon Cowell
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    The relationship is so secret not even the judges have been aware of the alleged relationship.

    According to the Daily Star, there is a secret gay couple in X Factor and they both got through to the live shows. They’ve somehow managed to keep their relationship secret from the world. According to that “close source,are” the pair became chummy at judges houses, suggesting that the pair could be in the same category.

     

    “But they only got together when they made it to the live shows.

    “Their families and friends know they are an item but they’ve kept it a secret from viewers and that’s the way they want it for now.

    “Their fans have no idea they are a couple.

    “Both get a lot of tweets from girls but they aren’t interested.

    “They are flattered by the attention but they are smitten with one another.

     

    In non-related news,  our article on Matt Terry and Freddy Parker’s bromance has seen a whopping 607 percent increase over the weekend over the weekend before.

    The only openly gay finalist is Saara Alto who revealed that she is engaged to her girlfriend, Meri. Saara Alto has defied all expectations by becoming the favourite to win this year’s series of the X Factor.

  • Saara Alto is favourite to win X FACTOR

    Saara Alto is favourite to win X FACTOR

    Saara Alto has defied all expectations to become the favourite to win this year’s X Factor.

    Saara Aalto
    ©Thames / Syco

    The Finnish singer who recently revealed that she was engaged to her girlfriend has exceeded all expectations to become the favourite to win this year’s X Factor.

    The singer who had a rocky start in her time with the juggernaut show said that she feared an anti-gay backlash and felt forced to live a lie after getting engaged to her girlfriend in the summer. She revealed that she and her girlfriend, Meri were the first gay female couple to come out in Finland.

    She said that she used to take selfies, but cut out Meri of the picture because she was afraid of the public’s reaction. She said,

    “It was so stupid. I was taking selfies and always pretending I was by myself when of course I had my girlfriend next to me.

    “It was my 28th birthday when I decided, ‘I’ve had enough’. I’d been hiding it for a year and couldn’t do it anymore.”

    She finally came out by posting a post on Facebook, in an interview she said that she was so nervous that she actually got her girlfriend to press the “Post” button.

    “I decided I was old enough to do something about it and come out. I was so scared. I couldn’t press the button to publish the post on Facebook. I got my fiancée to do it. We were so nervous. But it was good.”

     

    Joe Crilly from Bookmaker William Hill said, ”

    Saara has come from nowhere to head the betting at this late stage but the way this year’s show has gone, anything could happen this week”.

    Odds for Saara to win the X Factor are 8/13, whilst Matt Terry is 2/1 and Five After Midnight are lagging behind at 11/2.

     

     

     

     

  • Simon knows what he’s doing with Honey G!

    Apparently, Simon Cowell knows what’s he’s doing with Honey G in this year’s X Factor!

    Speaking in an exclusive interview with THEGAYUK.com former X Factor star Danyl Johnson spoke about how Honey G is just part of the fabric of X Factor and how acts like hers are all part of the excitement of the show.

    Honey G is probably one of the most controversial stars of recent years and her name regularly trends worldwide since she started to appear on the live shows and not everyone is happy about her inclusion in the show.

    Danyl told us,

    “The thing is, everyone gets really uptight about these, the enjoyable acts, but they’ve always been in the thread of X Factor. They have always been there. From Chico to Jedward, to Wagner to Honey G right now.

    “They’ve always been there. The X Factor is not just about singing, it’s about having something that people are talking about. Undeniably, every single person is talking about Honey G.

    Danyl who appeared in the 2009 series of the show and came fourth, knows how the juggernaut of the show works. He remarked,

    “Simon understands what she is.”

     

    Danyl Johnson’s full interview can be read in the latest issue of THEGAYUK.com subscribe now for FREE and you’ll never miss another issue.

  • People are noticing Simon Cowell’s gay jibes at Louis Walsh

    People are noticing Simon Cowell’s gay jibes at Louis Walsh

    Another week, another gay jibe at Louis Walsh.

    Simon Cowell
    ©Thames / Syco

    It seems as though “casual homophobia” is the new thing for Saturday night TV. Last night Peter Kay, whilst on the BBC, was blasted on social media for a joke some decided was homophobic and over on ITV Simon Cowell, once again, made a comment alluding to Louis Walsh‘s sexuality and viewers are starting to notice the frequency at which it happens.

    In Saturday’s (19th Nov) broadcast of the X Factor, Simon Cowell questions why Louis might like Matt Terry over Ryan Lawrie, after the 64-year-old judge told Ryan that Matt was better than him. Simon’s response, it seems, was done in such a way that many people took to Twitter to call him out on his “gay jibes”.

     

    https://twitter.com/PhoenicianDido/status/800072912900386817

    https://twitter.com/tomstoneman/status/800070259873116160

    A couple of weeks ago another comment by Simon prompted huge speculation over Louis’s sexuality. During the critique of Matt Terry’s performance of “I’m Your Man”, which Louis thought was “a bit karaoke”, Simon aimed his critique at Louis saying, “This is the first time Louis has said I don’t like I’m Your Man.”

    This isn’t the first time Simon has made jokes with someone’s sexuality as the butt of the joke (pun intended). During a live Xtra Factor broadcast, Simon asked Rylan Clark-Neal whether he liked the backdoor.

  • Wait… were Rylan and Matt simulating oral on the Xtra factor?

    Wait… were Rylan and Matt simulating oral on the Xtra factor?

    We have to admit, this one passed us by, as we had stayed on ITV1 to watch the first episode of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here… but what exactly were Rylan and Matt doing on the Xtra Factor?

    Rylan and Matt
    CREDIT: ITV/YouTube

    The Mannequin challenge is the craze that’s sweeping the nation – and much better than the ChristmasTreeChallenge, which George Shelley released launched over the weekend. Well, stars and crew of ITV’s Xtra Factor took part in their very own Mannequin Challenge and it was rather brilliant – despite Olly Murs blinking half way through!

    Our only question is what exactly were Rylan Clark-Neal and Matt Edmonson up to?

    As the camera pans round it settles on Rylan and Matt in a rather compromising position, with Matt’s crotch in the face of Rylan. As the action begins, Matt is heard saying,  “It’s just sort of flared-up a bit.”

    Rylan and Matt
    CREDIT: ITV/YouTube

    TMI Matt, TMI

     

  • Did Simon Walsh out Louis Walsh?

    X Factor fans think that Simon Cowell has just outed Louis Walsh.

    Simon Cowell and his gay jokes… Whatever next? Some X Factor fans think that the music mogul outed Louis Walsh as gay on Saturday’s episode of the show.

    During Louis’s criticism of show favourite Matt Terry, the ex-Jedward manager said that he found the performance of Wham!’s “I’m Your Man”, to be a little bit karaoke.

    When it was Simon’s turn to make comment on the performance, he aimed his critique at Louis saying, “This is the first time Louis has said I don’t like I’m Your Man.”

    Natch, Twitter went into overdrive with speculation sending thousands of people to THEGAYUK.com to search whether Louis Walsh was gay or now. In fact, searches for Louis Walsh surged 3029 per cent on Saturday night.

    This is not the first time Simon has used homosexual for laughs, a few weeks ago he rather inappropriately asked whether Rylan Clark liked the “backdoor” during the Xtra Factor post-show summary.

    Louis Walsh has remained, famously, tight-lipped over the rumours of his sexuality. In 2013 in an interview with the Sunday Times, when asked whether he was gay or straight he replied, “I can’t… Don’t go there. I can’t. I think your private life is your private life…I’m happy. Happy as Larry!”

  • We’re seeing double… Matt Terry and Louis Tomlinson get together

    X Factor favourite not only has us seeing stars but now double…

    Matt Terry
    ©Thames / Syco

    So when Matt Terry was first introduced as a contestant on this year’s series of X Factor, the internet collectively sighed a long breath of ecstasy and remarked that he had a hint of a former X Factor contestant… they said how much he looked like One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson. Indeed he did have a passing resemblance.

    Now Matt’s managed to break the net by uploading a picture onto Instagram with the two singers together! Despite only being up for 8 hours (at time of publish) the photo has already received 35,000 likes

     

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BMPxHQ2lSWo/?taken-by=mattterry93&hl=en

    The picture has been, understandably, getting fans very steamy indeed. One wrote:”THIS IS THE PICTURE IVE BEEN WAITING FOR!! THEY LOOK SO ALIKE!!” Notice the all-caps – they totally meant it.

    Another remarked, “Omg u 2 look like twins” whilst another added “Wow this is mental you r like twins!”

     

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  • Someone just called Nicole Scherzinger the c word

    Someone just called Nicole Scherzinger the c word

    This is all kinds of kray. An X Factor contestant just called Nicole Scherzinger the c-bomb.

    James Hughes X Factor
    CREDIT: ITV/YouTube

     

    Remember cutie James Hughes who bounded his way into viewers’ heart with his 6 chair challenge and then his smiley nature at Judges’ Houses – well apparently he’s just dropped the c bomb on the judge.

    James Hughes X Factor
    CREDIT: ITV/YouTube

     

    Speaking to Now Magazine,  he said at a charity event,

    “She’s a c*nt!, She’s so nice on camera, but I felt she had no time for me once they were off.”

    James Hughes X Factor
    CREDIT: ITV/YouTube

     

    He then questioned whether the judge actually chose the final 3 in her category, saying,”I don’t even think she picked her final three boys!”

    That’s you off the Christmas card list then poppet.