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  • Is This The New Kitty Brucknell?

    The X Factor continues tonight with yet more auditions and we’ve stumbled across some new pictures that makes it look like we may have another Kitty Brucknell in our midst.

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  • X FACTOR: Loopy Spice

    Gay Icon Geri Halliwell joins the judging panel of the UK’s favourite talent competition and the other judges have labelled her ‘Loopy’.

    Tulisa Contostavlos tells the cameras:

    “Geri loves to talk… Geri, you’re loopy! She’s just a nutter.”

    While Louis Walsh joked:

    “Geri talks and talks and talks and talks and talks and talks… talking, talking, more talking.”

     

    The 40 year old Spice Girl is no stranger to X Factor having been a guest judge in a previous season.

    The question is will Geri have a better response to her band mate Mel B who was labelled ‘Grumpy Spice’ by the media.

    So we’ve had Grump, Loopy, what other names can we rebrand the Spice Girls with?

  • The Hotties Of X Factor 2012

    Besides their singing talent these hotties from his year’s X FACTOR caught our eyes for a special mention. #TheWeekendsAreNoLongerMine

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  • Rylan Clark Is Kissing You In X Factor

    Rylan Clark, formerly of Signed By Katie Price, now of X Factor fame has bowled the judges with his personality, but left them a little unsure about his rendition of Des’ree’s Kissing You.

    Rylan who was interviewed for TheGayUK last month has been reportedly working on music projects since he came 2nd in Katie Price’s Living TV show.

    The audience and judges were also bowled over by singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan, who is a former winner of Live and Unsigned, the UK’s largest talent competition outside of The X Factor.

  • X Factor Final To Broadcast From Manchester

    The X Factor Live Final 2012 will take place in Manchester at Manchester Central. It’s the first time in the show’s history that the Final has moved out of London and it is set to be one of the most thrilling entertainment events of the year.

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  • X Factor Premiere Sets New Rules

    Grumpy spice, violent contestants, Nandos and Asda all got a look in last night’s premier of the 9th series of the juggernaut talent show X FACTOR.

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  • Host Of Star Judges To Join X Factor 2012

    With just hours to go to this year’s series premier of the X Factor, all eyes are set on the judging panel. Will Gary return? Will Louis Walsh still be required to shout over an over excited audience – after every performance?

    Well The Gay UK has learnt that a few new faces will be joining the judging panel, including, Anastacia, Spice Girl Mel B, RIP singer Rita Ora, Leona Lewis, Geri Halliwell, Nicole Scherizinger as well as Gary Barlow, Tulisa and of course Louis Walsh.

    Now in it’s ninth year, the X Factor machine rolled in to six major cities on the hunt for someone with the X Factor – Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Newcastle.

    The most popular audition song was ‘We Found Love’ by Rihanna, closely followed by ‘At Last’ by Etta James.

    Nearly 500 acts were seen by the judges – and the oldest contestant this year is 77.

  • Rylan Clark To Join X FACTOR

    The Essex lad, who was a runner up in Living TV’s Signed By Katie Price has made it through to the bootcamp stages of this year’s X Factor which is due to start this Sunday night on ITV 1.