Buzzin Bitch

Just what drives countless women to buy the latest fitness and diet DVDs made by ‘celebrities’ and soap stars is beyond me. Simply ask any normal person what the best way to lose weight or to get trim is and they will tell you to eat and exercise sensibly- It really is no big secret!

So anyone who has invested their money in the latest fitness or diet DVD fad only to be disappointed with its content, has no-one to blame but themselves.

There is barely a ‘larger’ female involved in a UK soap who has not recognised the opportunity of a cash spinner on the side and succumbed to making yet another video nasty, ‘how I shed my excess weight’, as though the whole idea is something revolutionary.

Fitness DVD’s will invariably end up being touted around Sunday Car Boot sales if they don’t get consigned to the cupboard under the sink with the sandwich toaster and other useless junk that families manage to accumulate.

So anyone who bought and was disappointed with any of the following Ten Worst Rated Fitness DVDs, forget miracles, eat less and exercise more and above all don’t line some overpaid actresses pocket with your hard earned income!

1. Natalie Cassidy’s Then and Now Workout (46pc)
2. The Jordan Workout (41pc)
3. Hannah Waterman’s Body Blitz (38pc)
4. 5 Step Fat Attack with Claire Richards from Steps (34pc)
5. Coleen Nolan’s Let’s Get Physical (32pc)
6. Geri Halliwell’s Geri Yoga (26pc)
7. Danielle Lloyd’s Keep Fit, Look Fit (24pc)
8. Vicky Entwistle’s Wow! Weight off workout! (21pc)
9. Jayne Middlemiss’s Love Yoga (17pc)
10. Charlie Brooks’s Before and After Workout (16pc)

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Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall has apologised for his philandering past through an interview in the Guardian, the ginger haired singer claims that during the peak of his stardom he was simply unable to say no and regularly slept with ‘about three women a day, every day.’

I can’t say I blame him, it appears that beautiful women like Cathereine Zeta Jones, Helen Christensen and Radio DJ Lisa I’Anson just couldn’t get enough of the Charlie Drake look alike.

Perversely Hucknall claims that it was his womanising behaviour that led to his mother leaving him when he was just three years old, he tries to explain that by saying “I wanted the love of every woman on the planet because I didn’t have my mothers love.”

It took a long time for the singer to realise that sleeping with hundreds of women would never give him the emotional attachment that he craved and in 1996, bored with philandering he turned to the bottle.

He spent the next five years more interested in booze than seducing women and claims this was the darkest period he had ever experienced in his life.

Hucknall has since married Gabriella Wesberry and the couple have a three year old daughter Romy. He has announced that he will be quitting Simply Red after a final tour this year.

The Daily Mirror reports that smarmy Simon Cowell has met disgraced pop singer George Michael and Jonathan Ross to discuss plans to re-launch their respective careers.

Michael who was recently jailed for constantly driving and crashing his car while under the influence of drugs will be interviewed by former chat show host Ross in what is thought to be a one off special.

No doubt the public will turn on in their droves, but what is there to learn about either of these two that we don’t already know.

While Michael became a massive star in his own right as a pop singer, he chose to turn his back on that career in favour of smoking spliff ’s while cruising around London.

He has already proved to be as interesting as a caravan site when he was interviewed in a Michael Parkinson ‘exclusive’ after being caught hanging out in a men’s toilet.

So what makes an interview with Ross so interesting? Even if the former singer could get a word in edge-ways which is doubtful, what is there that anyone would want to know?

1970’s pop star, Suzi Quatro backs Imperial Music founder’s criticism of modern  music and the today’s love affair with talent shows like the X Factor and Pop Idol.  Suzi had a string of UK hit singles written and produced by Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman including Can The Can, 48 Crash and Devil Gate Drive.

Yesterday Nathan Graves ex Head of Jazz for Universal Music Group UK and now founder of Imperial Music backed Elton John’s attack on today’s pop industry.

“It is NOT the way it is done.. you have to pay your dues.. and then.. and only then.. can you possibly develop the skills both to entertain.. and to survive success” said Suzi Quatro.

Nathan Graves said: “The mass market fascination with talent show creations is coming to the natural end of its life cycle.”

X Factor certainly pulls in the viewers on a Saturday night but where does this so called talent go when the show ends? Last year the so-called ‘guaranteed’ debut Christmas number one single was taken away from Joe McElderry by a group on Facebook petition last year.

“The market is desperate to hear people who have genuine talent,” added Nathan Graves, who launched the career of massive crossover jazz star Jamie Cullum. “Artists who have grafted hard for hard-earned recognition are making a big come-back.”

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Saturday’s X Factor reject Storm Lee has dismissed the programme as ‘not a singing show’ in this weeks X Magazine, following his dismissal from the show.

The 37 year old was voted off the X Factor following his brave but futile attempt at doing the Bruce Springsteen classic Born To Run any justice in the live finals on Saturday.

Obviously relieved at losing out Storm Lee accused his mentors of stifling his ability saying that he is ‘too creative’ to have gone any further with the show and was glad to have been sent packing.

Speaking to X Magazine Lee said;

“If this was a real singing show, I would have won. I’m the most versatile singer out of all of the contestants. That’s not me being arrogant, but I realised early on that it’s not a singing show, it’s a popularity competition. I feel really relieved to be out, actually. Right from the start I was pushing against a lot of factors that were really against me, and I knew, quite early on, that I was probably a bit too creative for the show, a bit too polished and too self-realised.
I don’t feel like Louis…I feel like he connects with Mary, connects with John, probably connects in a kooky way with Wagner, but I feel Louis and I hadn’t connected the way I thought or hoped we would.”

Obviously believing that he has a bright future ahead of him, despite having waited all his life for the X Factor opportunity as he said during the auditions, Lee added;

“I feel like I’ve won without winning, by being visible to millions and millions of people who actually liked me.
That’s what makes music so brilliant for me. I really believe there’s room for everyone. All those artists I love like Lady Gaga, Prince, Madonna, they maybe wouldn’t have got this far, and I feel really proud.

You can read more from Storm Lee, as well as Diva Fever, in this week’s issue of X Magazine, which is available to buy in outlets nationwide from Wednesday.The issue also features interviews with Frankie from The Saturdays, Kelly Rowland and Diana Vickers