X-Factor Wants Lady Gaga as Mentor

After Whitney Houston last week, the hit UK reality show X-Factor wants Lady Gaga next. True enough, X-Factor bigwigs are groveling on their knees to get the Poker Face singer on the show despite her bashing of reality shows to be giving contestants "false understanding" of success.

Lady Gaga was once quoted that:

If you win a TV show and you have a hit record, you sort of have a false understanding of what it means to earn success.

The shows are set up for a winner, for someone to win. Whereas with someone like me, who writes my own songs, you have to set yourself up to win.

However, X-Factor executives are unfazed about those comments because they are bound to make the celebrity guest list this year as their strongest ever. They already guested Robbie Williams and Whitney Houston. Bon Jovi is also due to appear in X-Factor too on November 1. Another celebrity up in the guest list is Shakira. Well, then, Lady Gaga should clear up her schedule because UK fans will be surely pining for her eccentric dance moves on their favorite TV show.

Alexandra Burke Boyfriend Zalon Thompson is Amy Winhouse Back-Up Singer

X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke is in the news after rumors sprouted that she's dating Amy Winehouse back-up singer Zalon Thompson. They were seen in London going out and getting cozy with each other. Probably, the pair met when the 21 year old rising British singer signed in on Amy's record label Lioness Records. Alexandra's single Bad Boys is number one in the UK song charts last week and they were seen together celebrating this feat with a romantic dinner and a trip to the cinema.

UK's Sun newspaper had a source that claimed "Alexandra is very fond of Zalon. They've struck up a close relationship over recent months and really enjoy each other's company." It is said that Alexandra Burke has a taste for "bad boys" herself since she had been in a relationship twice already. Alexandra recounted that:"I was 16 when I had my first relationship. It lasted about two years. Then I dated another guy for six months last year. But he was a bit of a nutcase." A few months ago she was rumored to be dating American singer Cameron Quincy Jagher, but she later denied the claims. (Bang Showbiz)

Peter Kowalczyk - The X-Factor Reject Who Punched Leona Lewis

After the shocked and tearful Leona Lewis endured being punched in the face during her book signing in a London bookstore last October 14, the identity of the person who did it was revealed to be Peter Kowalczyk. He is 26 years old and he auditioned but was rejected in hugely popular UK TV talent show The X Factor, which Leona won in 2006.

Peter's father, Tomasz, told reporters that he has already been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and is now at a psychiatric hospital. Leona Lewis, on the other hand, issued a statement that she is devastated and upset about the incident. To cope with the trauma, Leona is now accompanied by boyfriend Lou Al-Chamaa and her father Joe at her London home. According to Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, Leona said that: "I can't get his grinning face out of my head. Why did he do this to me? What did I do?"

 

With that, the 24-year-old British singer has no choice but to increase her security to ensure nothing like this happens again. Peter Kowalczyk has had history of mental health problems and is now undergoing music therapy to combat his psychological problems. Photo from Mirror.co.uk.

Whitney Houston Returns to UK After 10 Years for Concert Tour

After releasing a highly successful single 'I Look To You', Whitney Houston is set to visit the UK after almost ten years. Publicists announced that the diva will be touring 5 UK cities starting April next year for the much-awaited comeback of Whitney Houston in the concert scene. The exact venues has yet to be revealed. Well, this is a refreshing news after the UK tour of Michael Jackson left British fans sad.

Whitney revealed that this is her "first full since the My Love Is Your Love tour in 1999" and she's terribly excited to give good music to her millions of fans in the UK. Whitney is set to promote this concert tour in a UK talent show X-Factor this Sunday (October 18). Her tour will start in Manchester on April 8 2010 and it will move to Glasgow, Birmingham, Newcastle and London. European fans will also be delighted to know that Whitney Houston will also be having a concert performance in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium. Good luck to the original diva and we hope to see more of you soon. Hope you still got the pipes to go head-to-head with newer divas like Beyonce, Lady Gaga and the incorrigibly timeless Madonna.