Tag Archives: Simon Cowell

David Walliams Welcomes Baby Boy

By | Posted on May 7th, 2013
David Walliams swings by the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards. (Photo via AP)

Little Britain’s David Walliams, 41, and his wife Lara Stone, 29, welcomed the birth of their first child, a baby boy, on Sunday, May 5, 2013, reports The Independent.

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Call Off The Shots: Girls Aloud Split Up

By | Posted on March 21st, 2013
Girls Aloud at the 2009 Brit Awards. (AP Photo/John Marshall, JME)

It must be lovely to be a rocksnob. Imagine how much time you save in your music-loving day having your decisions already made for you.

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‘The X Factor’ Goes To College

By | Posted on January 15th, 2013
The X Factor

I don’t know why no one saw this coming before it did…

Bishop Aukland College in County Durham has launched a bespoke 17-week course that claims to prepare performers for an audition on The X Factor.

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Celebrity Hook/Break-Ups of 2012

By | Posted on December 26th, 2012
(Photos via AP)

Let’s take a peek at who got together this year and others who called it quits.

Harry Styles & Taylor Swift

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Tom Hiddleston Supports Aspiring Filmmakers

By | Posted on December 19th, 2012
Tom Hiddleston is keen on helping filmmakers. (Zimbio)

 

Thor star Tom Hiddleston, Anglophenia’s Fan Favorite: Men of 2012 winner, is currently acting as a judge as part of the Jameson Empire: Done in 60 Seconds short film competition, reports the Belfast Telegraph.

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WATCH: Spoof Stone Roses Documentary ‘The Second Second Coming’

By | Posted on June 28th, 2012

We’ve all seen those rock docos where an endless parade of talking heads trot out their half-baked ideas about bands and music and how things are made and what they do when they are made and all that. It’s a format which is ...

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Five Great British Next-Big-Things That Never Were

By | Posted on March 6th, 2012

They set off from London, eyes bright with optimism amid claims that America is theirs for the cracking, only to return, months later, as worn out husks. Here are just five British would-be conquerors who came back defeated:

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Simon Cowell Is Sending The Winner Of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Into Space

By | Posted on January 20th, 2012

I’m not sure if you can follow a remorseful quote about being too arrogant with a declaration that you’ll be sending the winner of a TV talent show into space to broadcast to the entire planet, but then Simon Cowell is not ...

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A Very British Christmas Part 9: Top of the Pops

By | Posted on December 15th, 2011

So far, we’ve looked at the Christmas meal, the pudding, the collapse into a TV coma afterwards and everything that happens on Boxing Day, but what of Christmas morning itself? What of that precious time where the children of the ...

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Five Great British Scolds

By | Posted on September 28th, 2011

A scold is someone who enjoys pointing out other people’s failings, and normally those are the kind of people you’d want to keep at arm’s length. But in the crazy upside-left world of television, the scold has ...

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