Anthony Kavanagh says Kavana's back!

Anthony Kavanagh (or should that now be Kavana again) has been chatting to the Manchester Evening News and talking about losing in the final of Simon Cowell's Grease Is The Word:

"I'm absolutely fine about not winning. I came into this show to get myself back out there, so to get to the final at all was just amazing. There was a part of me that was thinking, this role will take up a year of my life. I was kind of thinking, is this for me? I'm really pleased because hopefully now I can go and do my music.

I'm through with being called Anthony. Kav's back. I've got a proper agent and I'm meeting with managers all this week and I'm going to go full steam ahead with my music. David Gest says he wants me to work with some of his hip-hop producers, so who knows what the future holds."

Now, I'm sure that some of you may think that all sounds a little bit like sour grapes and an attempt to put a positive spin on things, but I do see Kavana's point of view. After all, he is a solo singer, not an actor. Now he's back to being known as Kavana, does that mean we'll have him stripping off again and showing off a bit of flesh? Our Kavana was never too shy about that back in his previous pop days. Let's look at some old pictures to remind ourselves again.

David Gest to replace Louis Walsh as sexually ambiguous judge on The X Factor?

The low quality newspapers in the UK are full of rumours about who is going to replace Louis Walsh as a judge on The X Factor . The X Factor is similar to American Idol but also allows groups and older singers to take part. Louis, manager of boy bands Boyzone and Westlife, was sacked this week and he sure is bitter about it. He’s called Simon Cowell a back-stabber whilst Simon retains his usual sang-froid and said simply that “it’s nothing personal, it’s business”.

Anyway, the rumour is that there will be two new judges and I think David Gest would be an excellent replacement for Louis. However, I wonder if he remembers that the other judge, Sharon Osbourne, once said that he looked like a boiled egg that someone had painted a face onto. Let’s hope he does! We love it when the judges prefer to bicker amongst themselves and ignore the no-hope “talent” onstage murdering yet another Whitney/Mariah/Celine number.

There’s a photograph above of David Guest and below is a face painted onto a hard boiled egg. Can you see the resemblance? I think Mrs Osbourne was spot on!