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Pass the pork belly: Where Pixie and Tinie go for dinner

18.10.11
A restaurant tucked away on an industrial estate in north London has become an unlikely mecca for pop and urban music stars... more

Pass the pork belly: where Pixie Lott and Tinie Tempah go for dinner

18.10.11
A restaurant tucked away on an industrial estate in north London has become an unlikely mecca for pop and urban music stars... more

Labrinth: The man making tremors in the music industry

07.10.11
Video: Hackney's resident superstar, Labrinth, tells the Evening Standard why Simon Cowell is his uncle and how he will change the face of music... more

Simon Cowell plans 'X Factor for chefs'

26.09.11
Simon Cowell is to launch an "'X Factor' for chefs" by creating a 'MasterChef'-style programme which could be launched as early as next year... more

In the air: Guardian firm runs Met's in-house mag

21.09.11
The Guardian's clash with the Met, which threatened to use the Official Secrets Act to reveal its phone-hacking sources, was doubly unfortunate because the paper has another link to the police... more

Red or Black axes two contestants

08.09.11
Simon Cowell's 'Red or Black' has axed two contestants after tightening security checks... more

In the air: Job cuts loom at NI and Guardian

07.09.11
With the economy looking fragile, job cuts are on the agenda at both News International, owner of the Sun and The Times, and Guardian Media Group... more

Ex-prisoner to keep Red Or Black? money

07.09.11
The first £1 million winner of Simon Cowell's gameshow Red Or Black?, who was reportedly jailed for beating up a woman, will keep his prize... more

Busta Rhymes talks American X Factor, Cher Lloyd and One Love Peace Festival

15.07.11
Hip hop superstar Busta Rhymes thinks the American X Factor will be as big as American Idol and Cher Lloyd will have a long career... more

Britain's Got Talent fix accuser apologises

04.07.11
The blogger who claimed 'Britain's Got Talent' was fixed has apologised after being cautioned by police... more

Jai McDowall wins Britain's Got Talent

06.06.11
In a shock final of the ITV1 show, the Scottish singer beat off stiff competition from 12-year-old favourite Ronan Parke to be crowned champion of BGT... more

Simon says: we haven't fixed BGT

03.06.11
Judges on Britain's Got Talent have 'laughed off' claims that Simon Cowell has fixed the show in favour of Ronan Parke... more

Labrinth: You've got to go in without a drop of fear

11.02.11
How an urban poet ditched his Hackney hoodlum posse for Simon Cowell's pop empire. ... more

EMI may be sold in months as Citigroup cuts losses

28.01.11
Debt-laden British record label EMI faces being sold within months as US banking giant Citigroup tries to cut its losses sooner than expected... more

US X Factor lands $55m sponsorship deal

21.12.10
Simon Cowell's US X Factor has signed $55 million sponsorship deal with Pepsi... more

Cheryl Cole passes off freebies as presents

14.12.10
Cheryl Cole repackages things she has been given for free and gives them away as gifts to other people... more

Team Syco is secret to X Factor's success

10.12.10
Our addiction to The X Factor can be blamed on a small company set up in 2002 by Simon Cowell that operates in a very unconventional way... more

X Factor gives us all a chance: Olly Murs defends Simon Cowell

04.11.10
X Factor runner-up Olly Murs has defended the talent show and host Simon Cowell after a string of leading musicians claimed it was “strangling” the music industry... more

Labrinth is Hackney's hitmaker

10.09.10
He has produced a No1 for Tinie Tempah, worked with Pixie Lott, Simon Cowell has signed him up and now he’s ready with a debut single — London boy Labrinth looks like a surefire winner ... more

Britain's Got Talent sued by 'Madonna' act over 'monstrous' jibes

26.08.10
Britain's Got Talent is being sued for £250,000 by a Madonna impersonator after Simon Cowell described the act 'monstrous' and 'horrendous'... more

Simon Cowell would like to live in hotels forever

19.08.10
Simon Cowell spent 18 months staying in a Mandarin Oriental hotel and admits he contemplated never moving back home... more

Jedward snapped up by record company 24 hours after being ditched

17.03.10
X Factor twins Jedward have been signed up by Universal, just 24 hours after it was revealed they had been dumped by their former record label... more

Record deal for X Factor Olly Murs

23.02.10
X Factor runner-up Olly Murs signs a record deal which will see him working jointly with Simon Cowell's label... more

Simon Cowell in Rage at bid to foil X Factor Joe's hopes of No 1

14.12.09
An internet campaign to scupper the X Factor winner’s hopes of having the Christmas No 1 appears to be succeeding. ... more

Olly Murs ‘never stood a chance with voters’ in X Factor final

14.12.09
X Factor winner Joe McElderry had been way ahead of his rivals in the phone polls for the last four weeks, official figures show.... more

Susan Boyle makes chart history with debut album

30.11.09
Video: Simon Cowell led tributes as Susan Boyle made chart history by soaring straight to No 1 with her debut album... more

Sound check: Jamie Cullum joins the super buskers

27.11.09
Jazz dynamo Cullum is one of the stars taking to the streets of London for charity.... more

Stunned George Sampson dropped by Simon Cowell

16.09.09
Britain's Got Talent winner George Sampson has parted company with his mentor Simon Cowell... more

Leona Lewis loses out as hackers steal her latest songs and post them on the internet

20.08.09
YouTube has been ordered to remove links to unreleased Leona Lewis songs by anti-piracy officials working with Simon Cowell... more

Hallelujah takes glory as year's biggest single

29.12.08
Duffy and X Factor winner Alexandra Burke were named as this year's music champions as the full-year charts were announced.... more


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