Sharon Osbourne says that she has never felt happier about the way she looks and has confessed that she returned to do a second series of The X Factor in order to pay for her doctor’s surgery bills.

She said: “I wish I could be a stay-at-home mum, but not with the doctor’s bills I’ve got. That was my motivation for doing the show.” Sharon reportedly earns around £500,000 for returning to the show to judge alongside Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell

“I’ve had so much plastic surgery, face, neck, breasts, lip and leg lifts, a bum implant and a tummy tuck. I’ve had it all and it’s fabulous.” Read more

According to this BBC ‘news’ article, Kevin Yeandel - an IT worker who looks a bit like Simon Cowell - is to attempt to take up employment as a record producer.

I for one am very pleased that Mr Yeandel has shown us what it takes to be successful in business - namely, to look sort of like someone who actually is successful .

Marvelous.

On last Saturday’s show, pensioner Dorothy Morrison, from Hyde, in Cheshire, believed it could be her chance to hit the big time. At 82 years old, she explained when interviewed by Kate Thornton that “You are as young as you feel”.

So complete with walking stick and shopping bag trolly, she shuffled in to face the judges with her rendition of The Righteous Brother’s Unchained Melody. Louis and Sharon both say ‘yes’. Simon was a little doubtful about whether she can “cope with it all” but has to put her through.

Here at the X Factor blog, we always thought that Simon was a “friend of Dorothy’s” - on this occasion, though, it seemed not.

The very thought of singing infront of the judges has many contestants literally shaking in their boots. One such contestant called Sheila who appeared on last night’s show would only sing rather than speak her answers when being interviewed by Kate Thornton just before her audition. Apparently this helped to keep Sheila’s nerves at bay, but unfortunately it didn’t help her get through to the next round.