Tagged: gordonsmart

Whatever happened to James Arthur, eh? The X Factor winner's single is out now , and Gordon is excited: JAMES ARTHUR’s Impossible had sold a whopping 187,000 copies by midnight on Monday after just 24 hours on sale. That sounds interesting, except when you compare it with how earlier winners did. Leona Lewis sold 50,000 downloads of A Moment Like This in the first half hour . And even Shayne Ward managed over 300,000 copies in the first two days and nearly three quarters of a million in the first five. It [...]

Harry Styles is thinking of buying a house . Oh, but there's a worry: The ONE DIRECTION star is having second thoughts about moving to a £3million north London mansion said to be haunted by the ghost of Dick Turpin. Harry’s not fussed about the ghostly presence inside – just the boozy punters making their way home from the pub next door. A source said: “Harry loves the area and the house but is a bit unsure about the pub. “He’s been advised that it could affect the sell-on value as [...]

Girls Aloud can't remember their own songs, apparently : GIRLS ALOUD were never going to be candidates for Mensa – and they proved that again at yesterday’s Jingle Bell Ball. CHERYL, KIMBERLEY, NICOLA, SARAH and NADINE needed lyric sheets to remember their tunes and what parts they each sing. If you're going to start accusing people of being a bit thick, you might want to not be confusing membership of Mensa - which is obsessed IQ - with being able to remember things, a different mental discipline altogether. More curiously, this introduction suggests [...]

Something especially awful this morning, as Gordon runs a picture of Rita Ora. Nothing strange in that, except... look how he describes it: It's a "nip slip outfit". Important to note that there's no suggestion that Ora's areola made an appearance. No, Gordon's just excited that there's a vague possibility that it could pop out. On this basis, then, surely all skirts would actually be "upskirt outfits"? -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch

Apparently they're doing The X Factor this year, and possible winner Chris Maloney is being defiant this morning: Defiant Chris — dubbed “Chris Baloney” after he hid his cruise ship singer past — has been compared with X Factor’s first winner, Steve Brookstein, whose career nosedived after he fell out with Simon. But Chris said: “You’re joking aren’t you? He’s got his own talent and does his own thing, but I’m completely different.” Yes, Chris, you're no Steve Brookstein. You're much more of a Michelle McManus. Or maybe even a Mark Rhodes. [...]

Could there be an "angle" on the pregnancy of Mrs Cambridge that has been left untouched in the slew of non-stories over the last couple of days? Oh, yes. Here's one: parenting advice from Noel Gallagher : Noel, who ditched his hardcore party days years ago, said: “They’re not the first people in the country to have a child, are they? “I’ve got three, you know. Do I have any advice for them? People write books about that s***. Very expensive books — my wife’s got ’em all. “Tell William he’d [...]

For the second day running, Gordon is enjoying the slow sales generated by the Tulisa album : LANDING a guest performer spot on The X Factor is usually a sure-fire way to a chart hit. But singing on last Sunday’s results show and sitting on the judging panel clearly hasn’t helped TULISA. Early chart figures yesterday showed the former N-DUBZ singer’s debut solo album, The Female Boss, limping along at an embarrassing No17. (Actually, as No Doubt discovered awkwardly, performing on the X Factor isn't a guarantee of success at all.) [...]

Gordon is trying to not look too thrilled at early indications that Tulisa's album isn't selling well : THE early signs aren’t good for TULISA’s debut solo album. Despite a primetime promotional slot on The X Factor on Sunday, The Female Boss started yesterday at No27 on the iTunes chart. It later crept up to No22 – behind KELLY CLARKSON, KE$HA and even JOOLS HOLLAND. At the moment, it's 122nd in the Amazon chart (and 130th in the MP3 chart.) Given that No Doubt's single crashed and burned after they appeared [...]

There's a certain old grey whistle test wisdom in Robbie Williams playing all visitors his new album to see if it's any good: Rob said: “I’ve been scared, thinking this sounds great, sounds confident, sounds big. “I’ve been having all sorts of people come in and have a listen — the mail man, the dustman, people delivering things from Amazon..." As if the foot-dragging of a Yodel delivery wasn't bad enough, they now have to factor in ninety minutes for every delivery in case they have to pull a polite face. “I [...]

Gordon is outraged this morning. OUTRAGED : How can Plan B so thick? What has he done? He hasn't gone and backed Leveson calling for state regulation of newspapers, has he? PLAN B won’t be voting for BRADLEY WIGGINS at next month’s Sports Personality Of The Year awards. The cyclist’s achievements over the past 12 months apparently haven’t registered at all. In fact, the rapper — real name BEN DREW — had no idea who the Tour de France winner and Olympic gold medallist is. Not knowing a sports person would [...]

Keisha out of The Band Comprising All The Former Sugababes can't, apparently, talk about her experiences in the Sugababes: “Legally, I’ve been told I can’t go into detail. I can speak for England and I’d enjoy telling the world exactly what happened but I can’t. I pretty much found out when everyone else did. We had a really good relationship.” Yes, nothing screams "great relationship" like not even being able to talk about it for fear of being sued. -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch

Lenny Kravitz is being lined up for the role of Marvin Gaye in Julien Temple's biopic. I guess he could lip-sync to the songs. If the casting wasn't bad enough, the focus of the film doesn't sound that great, the way Gordon describes it: Lenny will portray Marvin in the early 1980s when he had moved to London while struggling with booze and tax bills. Part of me really wants to see Lenny Kravitz pretending to be a drunk man struggling to balance his deductibles column for an hour and a half. [...]

Rihanna loves Christmas, the whole Christmas season, But it's not gifts or turkeys she gives as her reason. Maybe it's the 500 k she gets for those nights she turns up in London to turn on the lights. She drifts by, eventually, a whole hour late , flicks at a switch and sings (not so great). Each in the crowd, they turned to their friend: "We wait an hour, she didn't stay to the end!" For as soon as she arrived - to make all things worse - she dashed off the stage, song hanging, mid-verse! Half a million, [...]

How delightful One Direction fans are, warmly welcoming the news that Harry Hairsytyle is dating Taylor Swift by sharing their good wishes : One tweeted: “I’ll murder Taylor Swift. She will not date my Harry.” Another posted: “If u dating my harry, I kill u.” And Lord McAlpine thought Twitter was hostile towards him. The fans - known amongst themselves as Directioners and amongst law enforcement officials as Borderline Psycopaths - cover themselves in glory once again. The one soothing consolation for Taylor Swift is that the 'fans' have about as much chance [...]

Bradley Wiggins is raging that some of his Olympic chums are using their success to build careers. Apparently it's NOT RIGHT : The cycling legend has not been enjoying the procession of Team GB Olympic heroes basking in the glory of the chat show circuit. Wiggo said: “I’ve got a good management team who weren’t flogging me to death the moment the Olympics were over. “So I didn’t go on Jonathan Ross or Chatty Man, because it’s not what it’s ever been about.” Oddly, I didn't see this attitude in his book, A Man Who [...]

Will Sweeny, who claims to be a "childhood pal" of Harry Styles, has been telling Gordon Smart about how they would pass the time : Will said: “We’d act like complete idiots in public. Harry would go into Tesco, pretend he had Tourette’s and walk around screaming and shouting. Oh, how hilarious. “We’d throw things at each other, we’d just create chaos and a bit of a mess. We were told off by security and customers. “We played this game where you pick something up and launch it over your head without knowing [...]

Ah, how sweet. Justin Bieber got Nicki Minaj to include a line about his girlfriend in a rap for his new album: Justin Bieber, you know I’m a hit ’em with the ether, buns out, wiener, but I gotta keep an eye out for Selena But oh noes! Justin and Selena have fallen out. This, reports Gordon , means that... Justin Bieber to bleep ‘er Gordon's using "bleep 'er" in the sense of 'not having anyone do the rap when he plays the song live', but - hey - you'd have guessed that, right? [...]

Come! Together! Woah a woahaaa! Come Together! Gordon's got a scoopy scoop this morning. Muse. The Killers. Together at last : Meet the Millers: Killers hint at Muse collaboration The idea of just one overblown work from acts who have long since passed a point where their level of invention could match the scale of their acoustic footprint is thrilling - get over double disappointment in one go. Hang on, though, Gordon. Is there really a "hint", or have you merely raised the idea of working together and got a polite reply? [...]

Obama's second term is down to Katy Perry, reports Gordon Smart : KATY PERRY is taking credit for BARACK OBAMA’s election win after buying him a pair of lucky Y-fronts with his face on them. Nothing would give you confidence like discovering your four years has seen you reduced to a novelty figure picking up skidmarks. But tell me Gordon: is Katy really claiming her comedy knickers brought victory? [A source said] “Katy’s been saying he won because of the lucky pants.” So it was just a joke, as you, erm, [...]

There's a new section in Gordon's showbiz coverage from this morning. It covers clubs. It's called Clubz . With a Z. Which is charming; it's the sort of naming convention a short-lived kebab shop in a declining market town would have gone with. I wonder if they thought of going with "Discotex" at all? It's got pieces on Pete Tong and Carl Cox, so it's pretty much coming straight from street level. -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch