‘A new kind of cross-media poly-talent’: the cult of Harry Styles | Harry Styles

Harry Styles (right) in 2013, with Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw.

It’s been 12 years since a young Harry Styles was filmed queueing for The X Factor, wearing a plain white T-shirt, a grey cardigan and baggy jeans. “I’m Harry Styles. I’m 16 and I’m from […]

Kelly Clarkson Walk of Fame: ‘American Idol’ judges reunite

Kelly Clarkson poses on the sidewalk next to her new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

For Kelly Clarkson, her Walk of Fame ceremony was a homecoming. Twenty years ago this month, Clarkson wowed Hollywood as the inaugural winner of ABC’s “American Idol” in 2002. On Monday, she returned to the […]

Simon Cowell bribed Max Martin with a Mercedes to try and own this Britney hit – Music News

Simon Cowell bribed Max Martin with a Mercedes to try and own this Britney hit - Music News

Simon Cowell once offered songwriter Max Martin a Mercedes in exchange for Britney Spears’ mega-hit ‘…Baby One More Time’. The 62-year-old music mogul had heard the 1998 tune, which the Swedish studio wizard had originally […]

Who Won America’s Got Talent Season 17? — Plus, Comedians Roast Simon Cowell

Who Won America's Got Talent Season 17? -- Plus, Comedians Roast Simon Cowell

RoastMaster General Jeff Ross joins Black Eyed Peas, Darius Rucker, Jon Pardi, Trombone Shorty and “AGT” alums Shin Lim, Darci Lyne, Terry Fator and Light Balance. After a night of mostly great performances — and […]

Simon Cowell tried to steal Britney Spears’ breakout single

Britney Spears and Max Martin

Oh baby, baby! It’s pretty much impossible to imagine the words that launched Britney Spears into music superstardom on her 1999 No. 1 hit “… Baby One More Time” being originally sung by anyone else. […]

Simon Cowell Tried to Take “Baby One More Time” from Britney Spears

Simon Cowell Tried to Take "Baby One More Time" from Britney Spears

Simon Cowell has clearly made a name for himself in the world of pop music, but he hasn’t always gotten everything he’s wanted. In a recent interview, the record executive revealed that he tried to […]

Where the S Club Juniors are now – from Frankie Bridge and Rochelle Humes to royal impersonator and X Factor flops

S Club stars (top) Daisy, Jay, Frankie, Rochelle, Stacey, Calvin and (bottom) Aaron and Hannah

WHEN the S Club Juniors were assembled on reality TV two decades ago, they were all in their early teens. But now the group, the miniature version of S Club 7 who found a huge […]

Amanda Holden baffles TikTok fans with “bizarre” viral video

Amanda Holden baffles TikTok fans with “bizarre” viral video

Amanda Holden’s “terrifying” TikTok video over a scarf with Instagram picture TikTok viewers were left puzzled after Amanda Holden posted a video, which has since gone viral, showing off her outfit but in a way […]

Darius Campbell Danesh obituary | Pop and rock

The Popl Idol finalists of 2002. From left: Gareth Gates, Zoe Birkett, Darius Campbell Danesh, Hayley Evetts and Will Young.

The Scottish singer Darius Campbell Danesh, who has died suddenly aged 41, burst into the early world of reality television when he appeared on the talent show Popstars, the first of its kind, in 2001. […]

Darius Campbell Danesh: an alluring mix of naivety, panache and genuine talent | Music

The Pop Idol 2002 finalists: left to right Gareth Gates, Zoe Birkett, Darius Danesh, Hayley Evetts and Will Young.

In the embryonic days of UK TV talent shows, Darius Campbell Danesh – whose death at the age of 41 was announced on Tuesday – did two genuinely revolutionary things. Firstly, he succeeded in making […]

Chapel Hart Wows Again with Original

Chapel Hart Wows Again with Original

With four amazing performances and only two advancing, we’re already mad at the results and they aren’t even in yet! The most brutal round of the most brutal season of “America’s Got Talent” continued this […]

Last Season’s Winner and Sarah Hyland

Last Season's Winner and Sarah Hyland

Dustin Tavella brings his unique hybrid of uplifting motivational speaking and magic to the “AGT” stage one more time, the judges play a round of classic game show “Password,” and eleven become two! For the […]