The X Factor Series 7 - The Bootcamp stages!

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF JOE McELDERRY'S DEBUT ALBUM: Only 28 days to go! (25th October)

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF JLS' NEW ALBUM 'OUTTA THIS WORLD': With 56 days to go (22nd November)

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF SHAYNE WARD'S NEW SINGLE 'GOTTA BE SOMEBODY': With 41 days to go (7th November)

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF SHAYNE WARD'S NEW ALBUM 'OBSESSION': Only 49 days to go! (15th November)

After 6-weeks of auditions and Bootcamp, the final 32 contestants have been finally chosen for the next-stage!

Not only that but the LIVE shows are almost-upon us!

Next-up will be the Judges' Houses round and what's more, our very own Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue will be back as well!

After the producers revealed which categories the judges would be mentoring this-year, they now face a tough-task in selecting the final contestants!

Here are the final 32 that were chosen from the Bootcamp stage.

THE BOYS, mentored by DANNII MINOGUE

John Wilding

Nicolo Festa

Matt Cardle

Tom Richards

Paije Richardson

Aiden Grimshaw

Marlon McKenzie

Karl Brown

THE GIRLS, mentored by CHERYL COLE

Cher Lloyd

Katie Waisell

Treyc Cohen

Annastasia Baker

Rebecca Ferguson

Keri Arrindell

Raquel Thomas

Gamu Nhengu

THE OVER 28's, mentored by LOUIS WALSH

Storm Lee

Mary Byrne

John Adeleye

Yuli Minguel

Stephen Hunter

Wagner Carrilho

Justin Vanderhyde

Elesha Moses

THE GROUPS, mentored by SIMON COWELL

Twem

The Reason

Diva Fever

Princes & Rogues

FYD

Hustle

Belle Amie

1 Direction

The winner is amongst them somewhere and within one of the categories!

Simon, Cheryl, Dannii and Louis will select their final contestants next-week in the Judges' Houses round, with the final acts will go-on to performing in the LIVE shows!!!!

Exciting-times next-week but who will the judges' select? We'll just have to wait and see!

Want to see all of last-weekend's action? You can watch both The X Factor and The Xtra Factor online NOW on the ITV Player @ www.itv.com/itvplayer

Good luck to our final 32 acts, the judges/mentors, the presenters and everyone of the X Factor team!

Admin

CHART NEWS: Alexandra Burke is TOP of charts!!!!!

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF JOE McELDERRY'S DEBUT ALBUM: Only 42 days to go! (25th October)

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF JLS' NEW ALBUM 'OUTTA THIS WORLD': With 70 days to go (22nd November)

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF SHAYNE WARD'S NEW SINGLE: With 76 days to go (28th November)


With another-week having already-gone, the search for the next X Factor winner is not-over yet!!!!!

There's been plenty of action in the charts this week, with our very own Olly Murs and Alexandra Burke being part of it!

This-week's Big Top 40 (iTunes) chart now sees Alexandra Burke at NO#1 with her new single 'Start Without You.' It has also made a new-entry in the UK Singles Chart as well, also at NO#1!!!!!

Olly Murs' new single 'Please Don't Let Me Go' is now at NO#5 in the Big Top 40 chart whilst in the UK Singles Chart, it is now at NO#4!

Let's not forget Katy Perry, one of our guest-judges this year, is at NO#2 in both Big Top 40 and UK Singles Charts with her latest-single 'Teenage Dreams.'

Congratulations to all of our artists! We're proud of you and we're backing you all the way!

Admin



eXtra NEWS

Fancy some Cheryl Cole news?

She is back with a brand-new single called 'Promise This' and it will premiere on radio stations TOMORROW!!!!!!!

Also, don't forget to tune-into ITV2 this Saturday at 10:00pm, when the video of 'Promise This' premieres!

We cannot wait!!!!!! Good luck to you, Cheryl!

Alexandra Burke's All Night Long UK Tour!!!!!

DAYS LEFT FOR HELP FOR HEROS CONCERT: Only 4 days to go!

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF JOE McELDERRY'S DEBUT ALBUM: Only 47 days to go! (25th October)

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF JLS' NEW ALBUM 'OUTTA THIS WORLD': With 75 days to go (22nd November)

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF SHAYNE WARD'S NEW SINGLE: With 81 days to go (28th November)


It is clearly Britain's biggest-talent show, so why would it not be in the news?

With reports regarding the future of both The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, with Simon Cowell revealing that they could face the axe, there is some other news apart from that and it's very exciting as well!

Our winner from 2008, Alexandra Burke, is set to go on her first nationwide-tour with the All Night Long UK Tour!!!!

It will kick-off in January next-year and tickets will go-on sale this Friday!

For tour dates and ticket information, please visit the link below!
http://www.aeglive.co.uk/alexandraburke

Alexandra will have a busy-weekend this-week as she will be amongst the acts performing at the Help For Heroes Concert at Twickenham Stadium, which takes-place this Sunday!

Best of luck to you, Alexandra! We're proud of you and we're behind you all the way!!!!!

Admin


eXtra NEWS

Our finalists from 2008, JLS, have had such a journey since the show! They're back with some new material.

They will be releasing their new album 'Outta This World' on November 22nd, which is 75 days away! Also, their new US single 'Ay Mama' features Shontelle!!!!!!

'Ay Mama' is set to release in the US on September 14th, which is just 6 days away!


That's not-all, another X Factor contestant has just come-out in the news, it's 2005 X Factor winner Shayne Ward!

He now has a new-manager and his last-single 'Breathless' released back in 2007.

After 3-years, he will make a comeback as his new single is set to release on November 28th, which is only 81 days away!

Can't wait for his comeback. Great to hear about him again!

Congratulations to all of our past-contestants and winners! We're proud of you and we're behind-you all the way!

The X Factor Series 7 - The Auditions week 3

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF JOE McELDERRY'S DEBUT ALBUM: Only 50 days to go! (25th October)


A third-week of auditions may have ended but it has been an eventful-one without a doubt!

Our judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Louis Walsh and guest-judge Natalie Imbruglia continued their search with another set of auditions, in Birmingham and London.

It didn't start-off very-well but meeting brother-duo Twem, who came all-the-way from Paris, really got the audience on their feet with their version of Lady Gaga's 'Just Dance'

Cheryl claimed that they were the Parisian version of John & Edward (aka Jedward.) It was a NO from Simon but Louis and Cheryl's YES's were enough for them to go-through to Bootcamp.

Another act they met was Storm Lee, who came from LA to audition. Having to sing-twice, as Simon had a bit of an opinion about his name. It was a NO from Simon but it was a YES from Natalie, Cheryl and Louis. We'll see more of him in Bootcamp!

The judges met someone familiar in Liam Payne, who reached the Judges' Houses round in the 2008 series but did not go-further on.

His audition of 'Cry Me A River' left everyone gobsmacked that both Simon and Natalie gave him a standing-ovation afterwards.

A clean-sweep of YES's came from all 4-judges, Liam's off to Bootcamp!

Later on, the judges met Cher Lloyd, whose audition of 'Turn My Swag On' was convincing for the judges to put her through to Bootcamp, with Cheryl describing it as her 'favourite audition.'

After a busy-run, they met Abbey & Lisa but their audition ended in chaos after it looked they were having a fight. So it was a NO for them. Not a good-way to end-the-show.

Want to re-live the action from Week 3, you can watch both The X Factor and The Xtra Factor online NOW via ITV Player @ http://www.itv.com/itvplayer

Don't miss-it, guys!

Admin



CHART NEWS

Last-week's Big Top 40 (iTunes) Chart saw last-year's X Factor runner-up Olly Murs at the TOP with his new single 'Please Don't Let Me Go.'

On that chart, it's remains at NO#1 and it's a new-entry at NO#1 in the UK Singles Chart as well!

X Factor 2008 winner Alexandra Burke's latest-single 'Start Without You' only released today and is a new-entry at NO#3 in the Big Top 40 (iTunes Chart)

Congratulations to both Olly and Alexandra and all of our artists! We are proud of you!

The X Factor continues tonight!!!!!

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF ALEXANDRA BURKE'S NEW SINGLE 'START WITHOUT YOU': Only 1 day left to go! (5th September)

DAYS LEFT FOR RELEASE OF JOE McELDERRY'S DEBUT ALBUM: With 51 days to go! (25th October)


Some are destined, some are not, it's all about The X Factor!!!!!

Two-weeks have passed-by but there are still-more contestants to meet, with the Bootcamp stage still some-time away!

Dermot is back with all-the-action from the auditions as judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh continue their nationwide-search for the next potential X Factor winner!

This week's guest-judge joining the panel is Natalie Imbruglia, who steps-in to cover for Dannii Minogue!

With all the action from backstage, that's all with Konnie!

How will this-week's auditions go? Will Simon be expecting a good-start to this week? Is our guest-judge going to feel-settled? Can Cheryl look-forward to this week? Would Louis notice anything unexpected to this week?

Let's just wait and see tonight!

Join Dermot with all of the action from the auditions, on The X Factor tonight at 7:30pm only on ITV1!

Don't forget to join Konnie with all of the backstage action, on The Xtra Factor tonight at 8:45pm only on ITV2!

Don't miss-it, guys!

Good luck to the auditionees, the judges/mentors, the presenters and everyone of the X Factor team!

Admin