X Factor judge Louis Walsh has announced plans to form a new boy band to rival One Direction.

I am fast becoming a showbiz cliché: the Jimmy Tarbuck de nos jours. Since I went to Bermuda for a "celeb" golf tournament, I have been inundated with invitations for similar events all over the UK. I like golf, but very much prefer it when it's linked to an all-expenses trip to somewhere hot and lovely.

Former Westlife star Shane Filan has signed a solo record deal, just months after being declared bankrupt.

Music mogul successful in defamation fight

Television presenter Richard Arnold became the latest contestant to leave Strictly Come Dancing on the week the show swapped the Strictly ballroom for Wembley Arena.

Kimberley Walsh is undergoing physio to get her in shape for this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing after damaging her knee.

Robbie Williams, 'Angels'? Really? That's really the last song you'd want your friends and family to remember you by? The song you'd want to sum up everything you've every thought and everything you've ever done?

Westlife star Shane Filan has been declared bankrupt just days before the hugely successful Irish group play their farewell show.

For all their scream-inducing skills, British boy bands such as Take That consistently failed to colonise the bedroom walls of America's teenage girls.

An unemployed man who accused X Factor judge Louis Walsh of groping him in a nightclub has appeared in court charged with inventing the story.

Westlife have left Simon Cowell's record label Syco.

This stage-schooled quintet have already justified their existence by inspiring the immortal headline "the Wanted attacked by window-licker".