But who will it be? Week eight: Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu The former X Factor winner and his professional partner Nancy Xu became the seventh contestants to be eliminated after Shirley Ballas used her ...

Meet the celebrity contestants, from Tasha Ghouri to Chris McCausland - A ‘Love Island’ favourite, a comedian, and a JLS star ...

The NHS GP was pitted against Shayne Ward, the former X-Factor champion, but the judges unanimously voted to save Shayne, leading to Dr Krishan's exit. Despite delivering a commendable routine ...

Undeterred, Piers questioned if a show like X Factor should feel they need to take responsibility for contestants after they’ve left. Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and ...

its contestants, and Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment firm, which is the owner of the 'Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' franchises. Waissel, who competed with Payne in Season 7 of the UK competition ...

He also claimed contestants who have a “harder” time ... his Syco Entertainment company and the creators of “The X Factor” for comment but did not immediately hear back.

Liam initially auditioned for X-Factor two years before finding fame ... Nicole Scherzinger and Louis Walsh later grouped him with fellow contestants Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson ...

Since winning The X Factor in 2008, she has enjoyed success ... After a week of campaigning for viewers' votes with fellow finalists Eoghan Quigg and JLS, she received a late night phone call ...

Sharon Osbourne, a former judge on The X Factor, where Payne made his name ... row seat to its nastier elements and it felt to me that contestants (and judges) were regularly used to fuel the ...

ITV said its safeguarding rules for talent shows have “evolved and advanced” since the 2010 X Factor, when contestants were the subject of frenzied tabloid newspaper interest and social media ...

Former X Factor contestants have paid tribute to Payne, with Cher Lloyd, who appeared on the ITV programme in the same year, writing on Instagram that she will “cherish the memories made and the ...