The 9 0'Clock News – Mon 20 Oct

Posted by heatworld on Monday 20 Oct 2008

Filed under: Dannii Minogue, Girlband, Guy Ritchie, Louis Walsh, Madonna, Nadine Coyle, Simon Cowell, The X Factor

The X Factor is "the Simon and Cheryl show"
Oh dear – we thought all those rumours about Dannii and Cheryl had gone away, but it's looks like not – and this time Louis and Simon are involved. According to show insiders, it's getting very frosty between the judges, with sources dubbing The X Factor the "Simon and Cheryl show" as the pair now ignore the other two judges. "He and Cheryl are thick as thieves on-set and they often go off and do their own thing, ignoring Dannii and Louis. They're convinced one of their acts will win." Insiders say that Simon and Chez spend their time whispering together, and that Dannii is increasingly frustrated by Simon's behaviour towards her acts – with Simon forgetting yet another of her acts' names this Saturday. Oops!

Madonna: "Guy’s a gold-digger"
Here at heatworld, we don’t want to take sides in what’s likely to be a very long and drawn out divorce battle, but it seems someone’s telling a few fibs in the Guy/Madge camps. And we don’t know who it is. While Guy has claimed he doesn’t want a penny of Her Madgesty’s rumoured £320million fortune, Madonna’s people have branded Guy a "gold-digger" and insist he’s out for a multi-million pound settlement. Madonna is reported to have told a friend, “He wants to take, take, take. I’m totally devastated that Guy’s turned out to be such a gold-digger. I’ve worked my ass off for the last 30 years to get what I have, and now this gold digger wants to take it from me. He keeps upping his demands – he just wants more, and more, and more from me. It’s unbelievable.” We don’t expect the mud-slinging to end there… We’ve got a feeling it’s going to get bitchier by the second.

Nadine splashes out on a hotel
While Cheryl Cole’s content to storm her way down the showbiz path with her X Factor aceness, her Girls Aloud bandmate Nadine Coyle is concentrating on something a bit more entrepreneurial… she’s set to splash £1million on a rundown Los Angeles hotel. Nadine, love, do the words "credit" and "crunch" mean nothing to you? She already owns two bars and a restaurant in LA, and her family have decamped from the lovely Northern Irish city of Derry, so it’s full steam ahead for the Coyle assault on the States. A source says, “She has been searching for the right place for a while. The hotel will be done out with an old '50s Hollywood theme. It will be a trendy boutique hotel. It’s another exciting addition to Nadine’s portfolio. She’s quite the businesswoman.”

Girlband: "We'll be as big as Girls Aloud"
They might have been the second act to get the boot from The X Factor on Saturday, but that's not stopping Girlband from aiming high, with the Bristol ladies claiming that they could be as big as Cheryl and co *coughsplutter*. "They've worked so hard to get where they are and even if we could get a tiny taster of what they've had it would be amazing," says Marisa. Sounds like they could be raking in the cash soon – new reports today say that X Factor wannabes are already making £150 a minute for club appearances. Now, why didn't we audition with our version of Bleeding Love again?