X Factor: Battle of the Stars - The Final

The X Factor: Battle of the Stars starts this Bank Holiday Monday at 9pm on ITV1 and then runs for 8 days at the same time

Simon, Sharon and Louis are will be there as per the standard X Factor, Kate Thornton will be hosting, with Ben Shephard doing the ITV2 Xtra Factor

9 sets of celebrities will be taking part, so far confirmed are:

16-24s
Page 3 model Michelle Marsh
Actress Nikki Sanderson
plus 1 to be confirmed

25 and over
Actress Lucy Benjamin
Nutritionist guru Gillian McKeith
Sony Award winning DJ Chris Moyles

Groups
Magician Paul Daniels and his wife/assistant, Debbie McGee
plus 2 to be confirmed

The show will be sponsored by Nokia and made by Syco TV and Talkback Thames for ITV1+2

Boring.

oh oh oh its magic...

I wronder if it will go the same way as love island?

It was reported in the paper today that Andrea Catherwood from ITV News fame agreed to do this up until last week when ITN stepped in and refused permission. She was hoping to do a Kaplinsky.

So instead, her place is taken by Rebecca Loos (who is obviously available for anything), dueting with James Hewitt.

Hardly Celebs are they? then again most so called celebrity shows consist of has beens and zee list bods!!


www.everythingtv.co.uk

Anyone hoping this'll be a deeply embarrasing ratings disaster for ITV1, removing any likelyhood of a second series?

I'm certainly hoping so, even though I'm not usually someone that says negative things about all things ITV!

The others now confirmed are Matt Stevens and in the groups section Aldo Zilli, Paul Rankin, Ross Burden and Jean-Christophe Novelli.

I have to say they really have got a terrible bunch of Z listers - i thought this might attract a few good celebs, but it looks like its going to be terrible. Sharon Osbourne has admitted only knowing Chris Moyles and I cant imagine Simon Cowell would of agreed to this if he knew the calibre of the celebs!

What an embarrassing selection of celebs. But at the end of the day what did we expect. If I watch, it'll only be to see Paul Daniels again......what?......Every second counts..

As for Rebecca Looser and James Hewitt......*yawn* Nothing better for them to do is there? And on primetime ITV1 - go away!

Zzzz

Oh get off your high horse...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds33520.html

That's a real shame. We never see any persponality from Andrea. ITN are extremely snobbish then.