Last night’s X Factor was the third round of auditions in Birmingham and London. A lot of talent and also tantrum/fight scene!
Here are the Cheryl Cole highlights to the episodes of The X Factor & The Xtra Factor, with a big thanks to Snoop for providing them.
Click the above links to watch them online. Alternatively, click the links at the bottom to take you to the forum for the HQ download, the full show and screencaps.
Cheryl Cole hosting the Judges Houses stage from Hollywood
Cheryl Cole will be hosting the Judges Houses stage of The X Factor from Hollywood while Simon Cowell will go more low-key in Spain.
This stage in the competition splits the contestants into four groups – the boys under 25s, girls under 25s, groups and over 25s.
Judges Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue will invite their category’s contestants to a house where they will whittle them down ready for the live shows.
Cole, 27, will fly her acts out to Hollywood so she can continue working on her next album in LA while Cowell, 50, will travel to Spain and set up home there.
Irishman Louis Walsh will stay close to home and have his acts travel with him to Shannon, Ireland, while new mum Minogue, 38, will fly her acts to Melbourne, Australia, so she can spend more time with her baby son.
The X Factor is back! Tonight’s show was a great opening to, what is expected to be another amazing series.
Here are the Cheryl Cole highlights to the first episodes of The X Factor & The Xtra Factor, with a big thanks to Snoop for providing them.
Click the above links to watch them online. Alternatively, click the links at the bottom to take you to the forum for the HQ download, the full show and screencaps.
Hungover Cheryl fends off teasing from Simon at auditions
Cheryl Cole was battling a birthday hangover in Cardiff last night when she arrived for the latest round of X Factor auditions.
The Girls Aloud star and show judge arrived in the Welsh capital looking fragile and wrapped up in a hoodie rather than her usual stylish self – and Simon Cowell immediately spotted the singer was under the weather and decided to tease her for the rest of the day.
Cheryl’s actual birthday was on Wednesday when she hit 27, but she’s been celebrating all week.
Cowell, 50, spent the whole day baiting and winding Cheryl up as she fought off her headache and tiredness, not helped by some serious caterwauling from the X Factor wannabes.
Simon embarrassed her as he winked and told the audience: ‘Cheryl’s rather I’ll today. She might get a bit sulky and tired if you’re not nice to her. She’s got the disease going around called “hangover”. You need to be gentle – she doesn’t want too much noise”.
Cheryl hit back good-naturedly: “I may be a little hungover but I have a good excuse because my birthday was two days ago.”
Cheryl Cole adopts military look for Dublin auditions
She likes to keep us guessing with her outfit choices for the X Factor auditions.
And yesterday, Cheryl Cole went for a relatively simple look in a low-key khaki playsuit, which she teamed with black Christian Louboutin heels and a black cinch belt.
The singer, who turns 27 tomorrow, added extra glam with the help of some long gold earrings.
But then she knew she had to make an extra effort with Katy Perry as a guest judge on the panel.
Katy, predictably, opted for all-out glamour in a pale blue sequinned number.
The 25-year-old American is the latest in a string of guest judges adding a bit of oomph to proceedings in the absence of Dannii Minogue, who is on maternity leave.
Cheryl Cole arrives at X Factor auditions in a helicopter
On last year’s X Factor, Cheryl Cole experimented with a variety of looks in a style battle with fellow judge Dannii Minogue.
But as she arrived via helicopter to the latest round of auditions in London today, Cole found fashion inspiration from an unlikely source – Tom Cruise in Top Gun.
Perhaps in a bid to channel aviator-style as she enjoyed the helicopter flight, the 26-year-old looked ready to join the Air Force in her leather jacket and a pair of aviator shades.
Her black and white ensemble was a far cry from the more feminine outfit she sported at the auditions earlier this week, which saw her team an orange shift dress with the same pair of Christian Louboutin dogtooth heels.
Today marks their third or four days at the London auditions, before heading to Dublin next week, before Cardiff on 2 July and Manchester from 9-11 July.
Cheryl sports a dazzling smile and dress at London auditions
After spending a whirlwind getaway with Derek Hough in Tanzania, Cheryl Cole jetted back to Britain this morning and went straight to work beaming a megawatt smile.
As she arrived for X Factor’s London auditions in a tangerine dress and houndstooth heels, the 26-year-old couldn’t wipe the cheeky grin off her face, leaving everyone pondering what she exactly got up to with the dancer in Africa.
But as she prepared for auditions with her fellow X Factor judges, the talent show’s bosses were desperate to avoid a World Cup clash.
Realisation struck ITV over the weekend that they filming for Wednesday’s auditions coincides with England’s crucial Group C qualifier. Kick-off for the match against Slovenia is at 3pm, while audience members need to be seated for the X Factor at 2pm and shooting won’t finish until 5pm. The predicament has terrified X Factor bosses, who fear their audience will ditch the show in order to watch the match.
They have even gone so far as begging audience members to attend the auditions with a letter saying: ‘The X Factor auditions will continue as planned. Choose Dermot and Simon over our boys in South Africa.’ Letters were sent to 5,000 ticket-holders and added: ‘The judges and contestants are ready. All we wait for now are you, the audience’, The Sun reported.
Show bosses have assured fans that they will keep the audience up to date on scores from the match in breaks between filming.
But will that be enough to lure England fans away from the football and into the X Factor auditions?
At least the news didn’t seem to faze Chezza, who was still beaming from her vacation.
Whatever went on between the Girls Aloud star and Hough, it has certainly put the spring back into Cheryl’s step and it was the happiest she’d looked in months, following her split from Ashley Cole.
