Articles tagged with: Rhydian
In an act of betrayal not matched since the Italians turned their backs on the Nazis in World War Two, or when Sol Campbell moved to Arsenal from Tottenham on a free transfer in the cold, dark summer of 2001, Sharon Osbourne, who recently parted company with long time friend ITV, is preparing to jump in bed with the BBC. Sharon recently quit ITV1’s X Factor because of something about money. She wasn’t getting her cut of the phone-in vote or something (just joking Sharon). Whatever, she left them, and it doesn’t look like she’s going back. But then again she’s no doubt said that to Ozzy a few dozen times over the years. And yet, no matter how big the betrayal, she still remains by his side. The poor fella - as if being a human vibrator wasn’t enough to live with without that over-opinionated ear-ache hanging about the place.
Television phone-in contests have had a tough old time this year.
First there was the Richard And Judy You Say, We Pay malarkey. Then GMTV got embroiled in a similar sort of scandal. And hit ITV show Phone In And Give Us Lots Of Money While Attempting To Find Wholly Arbitrary Answers To Pointless Questions, You Pathetic Gullible Cretins raised more than a few eyebrows out there in viewerland. Surely things couldn't get any worse, right?
Think again. X Factor - grandaddy of all slightly plebeian dial-a-vote TV fests - has sparked off a whole new controversy following allegations that the result was a bloody great big fix. Over 1,500 viewers have called Ofcom so far to complain, meaning that a) they're either really, really angry, or b) they were trying to get through to Simpleton Ring-A-Ling Money Grab and their fingers were too greasy from the massive KFC bucket on their lap to dial the right digits.
Here's a prediction: there will never be another X Factor Disco Night ever again, judging by Simon Cowell's furious puce face as soon as he realised that not a single one of the X Factor contestants managed to be anything but cack. In fact, the X Factor Disco Night went so badly that Simon Cowell has jacked in all of the forthcoming X Factor theme nights as a result. Saturday's proposed Motown Night has been replaced by the painfully generic Love Songs Night - which means the X Factor contestants can choose between My Love, Chains Of Love, Stoned Love, Hot Love, Puppy Love, Loop Di Love, Young Love, Wild Love, Radar Love, Silly Love, Dr Love, Modern Love, Big Love, Bad Love, Dirty Love, Love Shack or Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes Love It) and no other songs. And God knows what'll happen to the other proposed X Factor theme nights, like X Factor Narcocorrido Night or X Factor Malaysian Ronggeng Night. But let's worry about that later, because we don't know who's going to win X Factor yet. And here are today's X Factor betting odds - for Beverley Trottman, Niki Evans and Rhydian Roberts, with help from Paddy Power...
