Articles tagged with: wins
If you've been waiting for the proper time to start the Dark Knight backlash, then we've got some good news for you. Last night The Dark Knight swept the People's Choice Awards - the most white-bread, gonkishly populist, helmet-wearing awards show in the world. In other words, The Dark Knight is the film that fans of Kid Rock, Kate Hudson and Two And A Half Men like best. In essence, this makes The Dark Knight the new Pirates Of The Caribbean - good news for anyone who wanted Batman 3 to feature three hours of Christian Bale running around pulling self-consciously barmy faces all the time.
David Cook, the only contestant not to have a pushy father or a side job as a stripper or a stupid wet annoying stupid mouth, has won American Idol. And what makes David Cook's American Idol victory all the sweeter is that he was never supposed to win it - partly because his rival David Archuleta had always been the favourite and partly because David Cook is so staggeringly anonymous that he could ride into a crowded room on a neon unicorn, announcing his arrival with a loudhailer-carrying 700-piece gospel choir and people still wouldn't have any idea who he is. But let's not be mean - David Cook is the rightful winner of American Idol, so he deserves all the success that he gets in the time it takes him to release one big single before Simon Cowell washes his hands of him and his album flops and we never hear from him again. Basically he's got a fortnight.
Tonight's the last night of Big Brother Celebrity Hijack, so it's bound to be a sad moment for the 12 remaining people who actually watch the sodding thing. But who'll win the prize of £50,000 and a lifetime of only being recognised as Wotsit Off Big Brother? Emilia, Nathan, John, Anthony, Jeremy and Amy all remain in the house, and one of them has to win, even though it'd probably be fairer on humanity if they let a massive robot into the house and let it trample them all to death instead. But who'll win? Here are the Big Brother Celebrity Hijack betting odds for Emilia, John, Anthony and Amy, with help from Paddy Power...
Perhaps the greatest Christmas present a woman can receive is the gift of a gaudy mirrorball that looks like it was bought from a car boot sale, and that's what Alesha Dixon got after winning Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday.
Alesha Dixon won Strictly Come Dancing after a tense dance-off with her dancing rival Matt Di Angelo off EastEnders. Well, OK, maybe not tense - what with Alesha and Matt doing five dances each, all the old Strictly Come Dancing contestants doing a dance each, the Spice Girls singing a song accompanied by a dance and Bruce Forsyth doing a comedy song and dance number, watching the Strictly Come Dancing final felt a little bit like wading through treacle. But, hey, who cares - Alesha Dixon has now won Strictly Come Dancing and is now almost guaranteed to get this year's Christmas number one.
No, wait, that's the other one. What exactly do Strictly Come Dancing winners do again?
Leon Jackson - the red-eyed Scottish boy who only managed to stop crying for about three seconds in the entire second half of 2007 - has won X Factor.
It was a surprise result for sure, since operatic weirdo Rhydian Roberts had been tipped to become the X Factor winner right from day one, but Leon Jackson proved that he had the winning mix of weird-haired good looks, strong regional support and the ability to burst into tears every time he said a word that even sounded like 'mum'. And now, thanks to his X Factor win, Leon Jackson has been almost guaranteed to get the Christmas number one with his single When You Believe - a song that was instantly available to download for anyone who wasn't completely sick of the twatting thing after it was played about 19,000 times in a row during the last 20 minutes of the X Factor final.
