The Voice Hopeful Lemuel Knights Slams X Factor Contestants

The Voice contestant Lemuel Knights has slammed X Factor for backing hopefuls who try to win with sob stories.

The singer - kicked off the ITV1 show in 2011 after initially impressing judge Gary Barlow - said he didn’t want to get votes by telling tales of woe.

Insisting this was his last shot at the big time on a reality show, he said he chose the BBC1 show as it’s not about personality or image.

The teen - who sang his own take on Jessie J’s single Do It Like A Dude on last night’s show - said: “The X Factor want an artist where vocals are not necessarily the best thing.

“But with The Voice it is just about how you sound, nothing to do with if you have got learning difficulties, or if your dog’s friend’s grandma’s passed.”

Lemuel - whose dad died from a heart attack when the singer was just eight - hopes to make his mother proud.

He said: “I am very close to my mum. In all I do, Dad is always around.

“If it is for anyone, it is for my mum.”

Lemuel’s performance left coaches Jessie J and Danny O’Donoghue fighting over him.

But in a bid to win Lemuel over, Jessie dueted with him - and her tactics worked.

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Sharon Osbourne Says Ozzy Has Been Sober 90 Days

Sharon Osbourne has revealed hubby Ozzy has been sober for 90 days - and said she’d never try to change him.

Their marriage went through a rocky patch when the Black Sabbath frontman, 64, admitted falling off the wagon.

X Factor judge Shaz, 60, said: “It’s acceptance of who that person is.

“If you think you’re ever gonna change anyone, you’re not gonna do it. You love them for who they are.”

Mrs O also admitted the couple enjoy JOGGING on the beach together.

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Spruce Bruce Looking For Love After Losing 4st

Jamie Bruce is a shadow of his former self since he went on The Voice – but in a good way.

The singing bouncer has lost four stone in seven weeks and is looking for love.

Jamie, in Sir Tom Jones’ group on the BBC show, piled on the pounds and ballooned to 24st after feeling like a loser when he was rejected from ITV’s The X Factor in 2011.

But now he is battling the flab, has spruced himself up and puts his new image - and success - down to the support he has had on The Voice.

Comparing that with his experience on The X Factor, he said: “I have been treated better by the BBC. It has changed my mental state and my insecurities. It’s been very positive.

“I came out of The X Factor feeling low and questioning if I should carry on.

“The first thing I did when I got kicked out was get a McDonald’s. I ate and drank a lot for the next four months to try and forget about feeling like a failure.

“It felt like the whole experience had been a big waste of two months of my life.

“But the difference with The Voice is that you have a vocal coach there who gives you constructive criticism even if they don’t put you through.

“So people don’t go away feeling they haven’t succeeded.”

Jamie, of Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, now wants to lose another three stone before The Voice live shows start on June 8.

He says: “With the frame of mind I’m now in, it has been so easy to cut out bad things. I was a man who used to eat a loaf of bread a day - but I have cut carbohydrates out of my life.

“I used to eat all the wrong things at all the wrong times and I didn’t do enough exercise. I was eating 3,500 to 4,000 calories a day. But now my aim is to get down to 17st.”

Jamie, who says he has been “100 per cent single” for the past two years, is also hopeful his new confidence will help him find Miss Right.

He says: “I seem to be getting a lot more looks in the street. I am definitely ready for love now.”

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Dannii Minogue Simon Cowell Has Some Balls For Calling Me

Dannii Minogue says Simon Cowell "has some balls" for picking the moment she was filming his TV show as the first time to speak to her since their affair was leaked.

The telly judge revealed she first heard from the music mogul when he recently 'ambushed' her during shooting for The X Factor Australia.

Dannii, 41, was preparing to hear which acts she had been given when she picked up the phone and heard Simon’s voice on the end of the line.

The mum-of-one revealed her shock in an interview with Grazia magazine: “You’d laugh your socks off if you saw it. I’ve not spoken to him since I left the show, yet he chose to film that moment."

She added: “Simon has some balls doing that.

"I find it bizarre that he’s never been involved in the Australian version of the show before and then I’m on it and suddenly he wants to break the news as to what group I have.”

The pair hadn’t spoken since Dannii left the UK version of The X Factor in 2010 ? despite news of their steamy affair being revealed in a biography of the talent show titan last year.

Author Tom Bower also observed Simon was obsessed with “her hair, the sexy clothes - and the t*ts”.

Dannii, who will be appearing on Sky Living’s Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model, also admitted she’s been thinking about having another baby.

The singer has a two-year-old son, Ethan, with her former boyfriend, rugby player Kris Smith.

She said: "I can’t just click my heels together and make it happen. I keep wondering how the hell I do it.

"Once Ethan got to two he started doing the most adorable things and I was like, 'Damn, I want another one.'”

“All my gay friends have been asking if my ovaries are available for rent - they’re close to running after me with a turkey baster.”

The full interview appears in this week’s Grazia magazine and Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model starts on June 20, Sky Living HD and on the move with Sky Go.

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Tulisa To Be Quizzed By Police Over Cocaine Deal

Tulisa faces arrest within days after The Sun exposed her setting up a cocaine deal, police said yesterday.

The former X Factor judge, 24, will be quizzed by cops after fixing the £800 handover with a drug dealer pal.

The shamed singer faced a barrage of criticism yesterday after our story was published.

Among those to mock the former N-Dubz frontwoman was hip-hop star Lethal Bizzle, who tweeted: “LOL #Tulisa.”

Tulisa Contostavlos was secretly taped speaking to The Sun's reporters

He joined others in re-posting a picture of a cola bottle, with the slogan: “Share a coke with Tulisa” which the singer had posted to her page days before.

In among thousands more online comments, she was branded a “chav and a bad role model”.

Nat Edgar posted: “That Tulisa chick is a very silly girl! She’s both lucky n blessed to do what she loves then messes it up with her latest antics!”

Tulisa is to be quizzed by Scotland Yard detectives after we reported how she fixed a £800 handover with a drug-dealer pal.

Cocky Tulisa, who previously claimed she is a role model for young fans, arranged for her pal Mike GLC to supply half an ounce of Class A drug cocaine to our undercover reporter.

She boasted: “Half my phone book sells it. Of course I can get it for you.”

Officers from the Major Crimes Unit were yesterday examining The Sun’s dossier of evidence on Tulisa’s drug contacts and will arrest her and part-time rapper GLC “within days”, a source said.

Meanwhile the singer - normally a prolific tweeter on @officialtulisa - went to ground and spent the day hidden inside her £6million Hertfordshire mansion.

Her £100,000 Audi R8 sports car stood outside as Tulisa and her team had at least six boxes of pizza delivered to the property. Tulisa’s cousin and N-Dubz band-mate Dappy arrived mid-afternoon, hiding in the back of a red VW.

Soon afterwards police visited Tulisa’s home to briefly speak to her PA Gareth Varey and a female friend.

Tulisa - who made £1million from her X Factor stint - was taped telling undercover Sun reporters at London’s posh Nobu restaurant: “Half the guys I know are drug dealers. One’s a massive cocaine dealer. He’s my best friend.”

She asked: “Do you want weed? I’m going to speak to this guy. Whatever you want he’s got it.”

When we double-checked if drugs other than cannabis were available, she replied: “Anything - cocaine.”

She said she did not take cocaine herself but confirmed that she did arrange supplies for pals.

A top TV executive said Tulisa, axed from The X Factor two weeks ago, will struggle to ride out her drugs shame - saying: “It’s going to be very difficult for her now.”

Tulisa bounced back last year after a video was published online showing her performing a sex act. She launched a legal fight against ex-lover MC Ultra, who later apologised.

Yesterday a Yard spokesman said: “We have received information concerning the alleged supply of illegal drugs. We are considering the information received.”

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