- Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis (born April 3 1985 in Islington, London) is an English Ivor Novello award winning singer and songwriter, who was the winner of the third series of the "The X Factor". Her debut single, "A Moment like This" was released on 20 December 2006. The single was also available as a digital download from midnight on 17 December and broke a world record after it was downloaded fifty thousand times in thirty minutes.
- Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell (born 7 October, 1959) is an English artist and repertoire ("A&R") executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom, but is known as a judge on television programs such as "Pop Idol", "The X Factor", "American Idol" and "Britain's Got Talent". He is notorious for his unsparingly blunt and often controversial criticism of the contestants. He is known for combining activities in the television and music industries, …
- Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Rachel Osbourne is a well-known English music manager and promoter, television personality and presenter. She came into public prominence after appearing in "The Osbournes", a reality television show that followed her family's daily life. Osbourne later became a judge on the talent shows "The X Factor" and "America's Got Talent". After the success of "The Osbournes", hosting her own chat shows and securing advertising contracts, …
- Louis Walsh
Louis Walsh (born Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Ireland, August 5, 1952) is a manager in the music industry, and a judge on the ITV1 show "The X Factor", which made him famous as a television personality rather than a manager. As of November 2006 his acts have totalled 29 UK #1 singles, the 29th being 'The Rose' by Westlife.
- Shayne Ward
Shayne Thomas Ward (born 16 October 1984 in Clayton, Manchester) is an English pop singer of Irish descent who rose to prominence in the UK and Ireland after becoming the winner of the 2005 series of the talent show "The X Factor".
- Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane Minogue (born October 20, 1971) is an Australian singer-songwriter, television personality and occasional actress, model and fashion designer. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show "Young Talent Time" and in the long-running Australian soap "Home and Away", before commencing her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s.
- Ben Mills
Benjamin Collett Mills (born 1 March 1980 in Chatham, Kent, England) is a British singer who shot to fame on the third series of "The X Factor", where he finished in third place. He is currently recording his debut album and has signed a five-album record deal with Sony BMG. His album, "Picture of You", was released on 12 March 2007, the same date as the debut album from "The X Factor" runner up Raymond Quinn.
- Steve Brookstein
Steve Desmond Brookstein (born 10 November 1968) is a British singer, probably best known as the first winner of the X Factor in December 2004, December 11, 2004, with two-thirds of the telephone votes. On 8 January 2005 his cover of "Against All Odds" reached number one in the UK singles chart, staying there for one week. His first album "Heart & Soul" debuted at the top of the UK album chart on 16 May 2005.
- Blaze Bayley
Blaze Bayley (born Bayley Alexander Cook, 29 May 1963, Birmingham, England) is the lead singer for the heavy metal band, Blaze. He is, however, best known for his role as the lead singer of Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999.
- Dermot O'Leary
Sean Dermot Fintan O'Leary, Jr. (born 24 May, 1973 in Colchester, England), better known as Dermot O'Leary, is a British television and radio presenter. He was born to Irish Catholic immigrants, he was an altar boy and attended Catholic schools.
- Andy Abraham
Andrew Abraham (born 1964 in London) is an English male vocalist. He was the runner up of the second series of "The X Factor". Before applying for "The X Factor", Andy was a dustman. Andy has 2 children by his wife Denise, a daughter called Tara and a son called Jacob. Andy was beaten to the top spot on "The X Factor" by Shayne Ward by only 1.2% of the national public vote for the show.
- Kate Thornton
Kate Thornton (born February 7, 1973 in Cheltenham) is an English journalist and television presenter, best known in the UK as the first presenter of "The X Factor" and known internationally as a presenter of the VH1 coverage of the "Concert for Diana". She has also appeared as a guest on "American Idol".
- Maria Lawson
Maria Lawson, (born 1975) is an English singer who rose to fame through "The X Factor".
- Brian Friedman
Brian Alexa Friedman (also known as "B Free") was born May 28th 1977. He is a popular American choreographer.
- Ben Shephard
Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard (born 11 December 1974 in Essex) is an English television presenter. He was educated at Chigwell School, and further achieved a 2:2 BA Honours from Birmingham University in Dance, Drama & Theatre Arts. Ben lived in North London's Islington from 2001-2004 and now lives in South West London with his wife Annie and two sons Samuel (born May 2005) and Jack (born January 2007).
- Michael Kenney
Michael Kenney is the live keyboard player for British band Iron Maiden as well as Steve Harris' bass technician. Although during recordings (since Brave New World, prior to this the role was shared with Kenney), Steve Harris plays the keyboard, since then Kenney performs these parts only during live performances. His playing can be heard on the studio albums No Prayer for the Dying, Fear of the dark, The X Factor, …
- Chico Slimani
Yousseph Slimani (born April 2, 1971), known as Chico, is a British pop singer of Moroccan descent who rose to prominence in the United Kingdom after reaching the quarter-finals of the 2005 series of the talent show "The X Factor".
- Michelle Marsh
Michelle Marsh (b. 30 September 1982) is an English glamour model noted for her large, natural breasts.
- John Reid
John Reid is a Scottish manager and music industry figure currently living and working in Australia. Between 1975 and 1978, Reid was the manager of British rock group Queen. For some 25 years he was the manager of Elton John, but their relationship ended with acrimonious legal action in 2000 over a leaked letter from his accountants detailing Elton's spending was found by Benjamin Pell and published in the Daily Mirror.
- Kian Egan
Kian John Francis Egan, known as Kian Egan, is one of four (previously five) members of Irish boy band Westlife. He was born Kian on 29 April, 1980 in Sligo, Ireland.
- Kerry McGregor
Kerry McGregor is a Scottish singer from West Lothian, who was a contestant in the UK TV show "The X Factor". McGregor was being mentored by Sharon Osbourne but was eliminated in the third week of the live shows along with Dionne Mitchell. Kerry is paraplegic, as she broke her spine when she fell out of a tree when she was 13 years old, and as a result is a wheelchair user. In 1997, McGregor participated in "The Great British Song Contest", …
- Tabby Callaghan
Tabby Callaghan (born Trevor John Callaghan on April 22, 1981 in Sligo, Ireland) is a musician and appeared in the finals of the ITV show X Factor in 2004.
- Mark Hudson
Mark Hudson (born August 23, 1951) is a record producer, musician and songwriter living in Los Angeles, California. He was a member of the Hudson Brothers, and has produced albums for Ringo Starr, Aerosmith, Hanson and the Baha Men.
- Cassie Compton
Cassie Compton (born July 1987) is singer/songwriter and actress who appeared on the UK TV music talent show "The X Factor". Compton finished fifth on the show in 2004 at 17 years of age. Under guidance of mentor Sharon Osbourne in the under 25s group, bookmakers had her as one of the favourites to win throughout the show. She was eliminated from the competition three weeks before the final after ending up in the bottom two.
- Phillip Magee
Phillip Magee (born April 22, 1984 in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland) was the 10th place finisher of The X Factor (TV series) 2005. He was the eldest son of James and Ann and has two younger brothers Paul (19) and David (17). Phillip has been singing for as long as he can remember. When he was 4 he used to get up early in the morning, put on a CD and sing along to it, …
- Daniel MacPherson
Daniel MacPherson (born 25 April 1980, in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actor and television presenter. He was educated at Sydney Boys High School, and prior to becoming an actor had been a triathlete. However, when his agent discovered him, he soon landed the role of Joel Samuels in the popular soap opera "Neighbours", starting in 1998. Bearing a similarity to his real life, the blond-haired actor's character was also a budding athlete, until a knee injury.
- Aldo Zilli
Aldo Zilli (born 1955) is an Italian-born celebrity chef who specialises in Italian cuisine. One of nine children, he was born in the small seaside town of Alba Adriatica in the central Italian region of Abruzzo. He has been a resident of the UK since moving to England in 1976. He has appeared on television in "Good Food Live" as well as in the third series of "Celebrity Fit Club", in which he lost 15.5 kilos (2 stone 6 pounds), …
- Mike Christie
Michael Phillip Christie (born April 21, 1981 in Redhill, Surrey) is a baritone singer with British vocal troupe G4. Other band members are Jonathan Ansell, Matthew Stiff, and Ben Thapa. He also plays piano and flute. Having been a chorister between the ages of 8 and 13, he took A levels in Chemistry, Art & Design and Music, before spending four years at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and graduating in 2004. When G4 appeared on "The X Factor" in 2004, …
- Paul Rankin
Paul Rankin is a celebrity chef from Ballywalter, County Down, Northern Ireland. He has been a regular chef on the BBC cookery programme "Ready Steady Cook". In 1999 Rankin was the first chef from Northern Ireland to be awarded a Michelin Star. He has written five cookery books & runs The Rankin Group chain of restaurants & cafes, including "Cayenne" and "Roscoff" in Belfast.
- Michelle Thorne
Michelle Thorne (born August 2 1975 in Bristol, England) is a porn actress, glamour model and erotic actress from the UK. Her adult film career began in 1999 with "All Amateur: Girls of the UK". The BBC in an article published in August of 2005 named her as "one of the best-known faces in the British porn industry and one of the top actresses". Although she is heterosexual, most of her pornographic films involve lesbian sex.
- Hugh Syme
Hugh Syme is a graphic artist, he is best known for his artwork and cover concepts for rock and metal bands. He is also a musician and has appeared in some Rush songs as a keyboard player. He is notably responsible for all of Rush's album cover art since 1975's Caress of Steel. He also created Rush's famous starman logo. He has said on several occasions that he never imagined the band would use it as their main logo.
- Joe Smith
Joseph Genesis Smith (born August 18 1988 in Slough, Berkshire, England) is an English male vocalist. He finished 27th in Series 3 of "The X Factor". He is currently signed to EMI owned label S-Curve Records , who have announced that his first single "Sensuous Barber" will be taken from his fortchoming album "Ultrasoundz". On March 30, Joe will officially open Gallery365 in Slough. Joe Smith was born in Slough to a teacher mother, Maria, …
- Ross Burden
Ross Burden is a celebrity chef from New Zealand. Ross Burden's early career was as a model but became a chef later in life. His inspiration for being a chef was his mother's extremely bad cooking skills, which meant that he spent a lot of time cooking with his grandmother. Ross was brought up in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand and is a self-taught cook. He has hosted and been a guest on programmes across the world and was recently voted one of the UK's most eligible bachelors.
- Yvie Burnett
Yvie Burnett, is one of the vocal coaches on ITV's successful TV show, X Factor. She was born on 8th August 1968 in Aberdeen, Scotland. She joined the show in Series 2 as Louis Walsh's vocal coach and coached Shayne Ward to success as the series winner. This year, as well as working with Louis with groups, Yvie has also been coaching Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne's acts.
- Peter Dickson
Peter Dickson is a British radio presenter, television announcer and voice over artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s. He has worked extensively as an announcer in the gameshow genre on (amongst others) "The Price Is Right" (Bruce Forsyth and Joe Pasquale versions), "Gameshow Marathon", "Soapstar Superstar", "Viewer of the Year", "Family Fortunes", "They Think It's All Over", "The X Factor", …
- Linda Martin
Linda Martin (born April 17, 1947) is an Irish singer, and TV presenter who started off her musical career when she joined the band Chips in Belfast in 1969 while she was still in school. She participated in the National Song Contest four times as a member of Chips, however they did not score successfully. She participated another four times in the contest as a soloist and once more as part of the group "Linda Martin and Friends".
- Bryan Rice
Brian Risberg Clausen (also known as Bryan Rice) is a Danish singer born in 1978. His debut-single "No Promises" was a huge hit in Denmark in fall 2005/spring 2006. The song was covered and released by British X Factor winner Shayne Ward reaching #2 in the official U.K. charts. "Homeless Heart" is the second single from Bryan Rice, and "Can't say I'm sorry" the third.
- Enn Reitel
Enn Reitel (born 21 June 1950, Forfar) is a Scottish actor who specialises in voice work. In 1982, he starred in the one series of "Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim", a BBC2 sitcom written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Reitel played Jim Dixon, based on the character created by Kingsley Amis. Reitel worked as an impressionist on the satirical puppet show "Spitting Image".
- Sinitta Malone
Sinitta Renet Malone (b. October 19, 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is an African-American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer Miquel Brown and the niece of Amii Stewart.
- Paul Holt
Paul Holt is a musician who appeared in the audition phase of ITV show The X Factor, performing Helen Reddy's song You're My World. Simon Cowell told him: "That's the end of your singing career, that's for sure. Oh my God. That was just without question the worst we've heard today, one of the worst we've heard in Leeds. Just awful... You can't sing Paul." Paul told him that he would prove that he could when he got the record deal that he deserved.