3 d. ago X Factor icon unrecognisable 18 years after Simon Cowell branded her 'vile'

Sometimes an X Factor audition makes history for very awkward reasons and one such star looks unrecognisable from her five minutes of fame as she's pictured now, 18 years after audition

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3 d. ago X Factor star branded 'vile' by Simon Cowell breaks cover 18 years after 'worst audition ever'

X Factor star, Rachel Lester, left the judges gobsmacked in 2007 when she rocked up on the ITV show, boasting she 'did nothing for a living' in one of the worst auditions ever

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3 d. ago X Factor star who Simon Cowell branded 'vile' pictured for the first time in years as 'worst ever' audition remains a firm fan favourite

Back in 2007, Rachel confidently professed: 'I've got The X Factor because I am a natural talent. At the end of the day, I deserve it. I'm just too goddamn good.'

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4 d. ago ITV Emmerdale's top five spoilers for next week including April Windsor's new baby bombshell

Next week's Emmerdale is set to be a dramatic one with a huge death, a possible prison exit and a double murder horror that leaves the village in tatters.

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5 d. ago Mother of Irish backpacker Danielle McLaughlin who was raped and murdered after leaving a beach hut in Goa says she can finally start grieving her child after Indian killer is jailed for life

The 28-year-old was found naked and strangled to death, with her face smashed up by a broken beer bottle, after she had been brutally raped in a secluded spot in Goa, India , in March 2017.

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5 d. ago Former 'X Factor' star kidnapped, tortured and murdered after leaving a concert

A popular singer from Columbia, Zair Guette, who left judges speechless on El Factor X, a spin-off of the X Factor, has been murdered after being kidnapped as he left a concert with his manager

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5 d. ago X Factor star kidnapped, tortured then murdered in horrific attack after leaving concert

Zair Guette, 25, who appeared on a spin-off of the X Factor called El Factor X in Colombia, was found dead in a remote part of Colombia on February 14

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5 d. ago X Factor star kidnapped, tortured and executed after leaving a concert

Zair Guette, 24, who rose to fame in Colombia after competing on the country's version of X-Factor, was found with fatal gunshot wounds and with his hands and feet tied together

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5 d. ago France tries five suspected IS militants over kidnap of four journalists in Syria

One suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, is serving a life sentence for a 2019 attack on a Jewish museum in BrusselsFive suspected Islamist terrorists accused of kidnapping and torturing four French journalists covering the war in Syria have gone on trial in Paris.The men include the French jihadi Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, who is serving life imprisonment for an attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2019 in which four people died. Continue reading...

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