Rachel Stevens is the early bookies' favourite to win the new series of Strictly Come Dancing. Ladbrokes have installed the former S Club 7 star as the 3-1 favourite. Holby City actor Tom Chambers has the shortest odds of the men at 6-1, while One show presenter Christine Bleakley is also 6-1. Former ITN political editor John Sargeant is the outside at 50-1, with Gillian Taylforth, Phil Daniels and Gary Rhodes all given long odds of 33-1.

LaurenR asked to post this Strictly video, Rachel comes on at 1:18 and 1:35. Watch

Now, no less than 26 leading ladies and men from West End musicals have joined forces to record ACT ONE, a CD of songs from all of Alexander’s shows. The 20-track album boasts sleeve notes by triple Oscar-winning lyricist and long-time champion of Alexander’s writing Sir Tim Rice, and is produced by one of the most experienced and respected musical forces in London’s West End and on British television, Mike Dixon.

ACT ONE is the only album in existence to feature brand new recordings by such a large number of today’s musical theatre stars:

1. How You Imagine It To Be Susan Mcfadden
2. Walking On The Sun Jon Robyns
3. Anyone But You Jenna Lee-James And Dean Collinson
4. Trial Of The Heart Ricardo Afonso, Cassandra Compton And Sabrina Aloueche
5. I Want To Reach The Stars Jon Lee
6. My Prince Lara Pulver
7. Enchanted Ben James-Ellis And Alexia Khadime
8. More Than A Memory Oliver Tompsett
9. If This Could Be Forever Linzi Hateley
10. You Can Read My Heart Daniel Boys
11. Just For One Moment In Time Summer Strallen
12. I Only Wish For You Shona Lindsay, Ramin Karimloo And Dianne Pilkington
13. Higher Than A Shooting Star Mark Evans And Susan Mcfadden
14. Where´s The Love? Janie Dee
15. The Land Of Gold Earl Carpenter
16. I´ve Grown To Learn James Gillan
17. The Magic´s With Me Tonight Joanna Ampil
18. The Threshold Of Her Heart Dean Chisnall And Sabrina Aloueche
19. Can´t Get Enough Sally Ann Triplett
20. If No-One Loves You Oliver Thornton


Release Date: October 2008 on Dress Circle Records. You can pre-order it now for £14.99. More info

Credit: Super Mario

I got many answers this week again, it's obvious you've been listening to Two In A Million! I didn't get any line suggestions but no problem, I've added mine:

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Bradley has once again added a new song to his MySpace, it's called Wanna Love U Girl. I hope he could get a label soon.

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I've added 3 more SCD pictures of Rachel, enjoy. She looks so beautiful.

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Rachel says: "Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance. For the first time ever, I'm doing something completely on my own and it's scary. I've always had other band members or dancers around me before. I would be thrilled if I won, but I can't think that far ahead. I'm taking each training session as it comes and I'm looking forward to the sexy dances like the rumba."

Here are the first official Strictly Come Dancing pictures of Rachel and her partner Vincent Simone who seems to be quite a hottie, click for more. The show starts on 20th September. For more information visit the official site.

Douglas Henshall.com has posted a picture of Hannah of the series 3, click to see bigger.



Next Sunday, starting at 4pm Eastern on BBC America, there will be a Primeval marathon of the first four episodes. It's titled "Primeval 101".

The American Primeval 1 DVD cover has been revamped, it now has pictures of Claudia and Connor too. See and pre-order here.

Credit: Mickey ( Marathon and DVD cover )

This is going to be so much fun! Autograph Hunters is a new TV comedy screening at The Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square on Thursday 2nd October 2008. Christie and John hunt for celebrities autographs and who else than our Paulie! Here's what they say:

We want to meet: Paul Cattermole from S Club 7. The one with the brown hair. The one at the back. Not dancing. Just looking cool. Sometimes. He's now a rock and roll star. We love him. We really love him. We really love him. A lot.

Didn't get it? Watch the trailer and Visit the official site. Hilarious!

Credit: LaurenR

Scary Spice, Mel B is set to renew her wedding vows with husband Stephen Belafonte. The star is planning a large, tacky lavish celebrity filled ceremony. The event will be documented for OK! magazine and all for the low, low, low price of £200,000. However, there is an ickle problem. Brown is a little short on showbiz friends. The singer is obligated to stuff her ceremony full of stars, in order to keep the magazine happy. So far, Fearne Cotton, Sarah Harding, Denise Van Outen and Rachel Stevens have all been invited - but sadly none of them are able to attend.

I heard that this week's Guess the song was trickier than usually, yay! This is what I've been trying to do. I've added the new challenge and winners, check them out. You know what, you could help me out a little bit. Send your song line suggestion and I'll use the best ones in following competitions. E-mail it to joanneomeara4eva@hotmail.com.

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If you haven't joined our forum yet you'd better do it now. The name of it is World of Rachel but it has sections for S Club and all the members aswell. The newest adds are multimedia section and Primeval discussion. 500 members can't be wrong.

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Primeval on BBC America, tonight:

8.00 PM ET - episode 2
9.00 PM ET - episode 3
11.00 PM ET - episode 2

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Bradley's added 2 new songs to his MySpace page, they're called Man U Can Count On and My Everything. My Everything is actually not new for us as I've added it to So Alive downloads ages ago. Anyway, just when I said in the tag board that he should let go of pop and focus on rap music he goes and adds two poppish songs...

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Rachel is doing charity again, this time it's a campaign with Cancer Research UK called handbag amnesty. The project helps raise money to fight breast cancer. Celebs donate handbags which will be auctioned on eBay from Friday 3rd - Sunday 12th of October.

Credit: Dale

I thought it was about time to change the gallery design although I really loved Dany's one. The banner is made by lovely Lorna and I've coded it. Atleast I tried, hopefully it works well. Let me know if there any weird colour combinations :P Some new Jon pics coming soon!

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Pop star Rachel Stevens has signed up for Strictly Come Dancing, hoping it will be a quickstep back to success. The former S Club 7 chart-topper, 30, has tried acting in the US and released solo records since the group split in 2002. But in recent years Rachel - whose hits include Bring it all Back and Don't Stop Movin' - has seen the work dry up. A source who revealed she had signed for the BBC show added: "Rachel has met her dance partner. She is excited and is going to get stuck into training. "She wants to tone up and get back the figure that won her millions of male fans in S Club. The show has done wonders for people like Kelly Brook, so Rachel is hoping it will get her back in the limelight."

YES YES YES! I LOVE THE SHOW, IT'S THE ONLY REALITY SHOW WORTH WATCHING, WONDERFUL NEWS :D

I got a chance to make an exclusive interview with Robbie Glover who recently recorded and wrote a song called Hands Up with Bradley.

So, the track Hands Up track was recorded in a secret location, sounds like fun! Are/ Were you an S Club 7 fan or what got you to work with Bradley?

I was never really into S Club as a band at the time however I did & still do feel they were what you'd call a very good & very marketable pop act ... I did love the track "Don't Stop Moving" & Bradley mentioned to me to check out some of the other tracks that we're more album tracks than single release's (Such as "Right Guy") which I feel are good records... even now, I actually played that track to a few friends here afterwards & they were also pretty impressed, as it's a really credible track, so since working with Bradley I have listened to a lot more of their stuff out of my own curiosity, "Alive" also being a track I wasn't too aware of but I feel it's great, however I do feel that Bradley's solo material is more my thing as simply because it's more what I'd listen to at home kinda thing, I heard a lot of his work in the studio & it was genuinly really good, we were talking in the house where we stayed about the whole music scene & he has the same kinda determination as myself in regards to it all, which I kinda picked up on, it doesn't matter what people put up against you etc... the only person that will stop me doing what I'm doing is me, because it's genuinly in my heart to do this, which Bradley also feels too, you can usually tell when someones got a genuine love for what they do, if they didn't they simplt wouldn't be still doing it now, which the "Slow & Steady Wins The Race" card comes in here, what people don't realise with Bradley is that he's actually a very talented producer too, as well as a vocalist, not just a face from S Club, one track that sticks in my mind was a track called Dr Love, I hope you guys get to hear that someday, his material is very versatile too, so should appeal to various audiences.

The song is very catchy, I really love the lyrics and the rhythm, are we going to hear the full version soon?

Hopefully ... I've had really good vibes about it which I'm really pleased about, even a few DJ's have asked me about the track so we'll see, maybe it'll go into the clubs as I've got quite a good reputation with my music & club DJ's scrambling on to what I do etc... as well as some at Radio One's 1Xtra, if theirs enough vibe spread about the track & a good enough impact hopefully it'll be persued more, which of course is great for myself & for Bradley, I have specificially tried to put it across to that not only does Bradley put a vocal on but he's also responsible for producing the music too, which I believe personally is only right anyway, that credit should be given where it's due.. which in this case is true, again the vibes have been great in regards to the track so it's kind of a starter for people to see that Bradley can also produce pretty originally too, I've had some very kind words, which I appreciate dearly.

I'm sure many of us (Bradley fans) also got interested in your music, what song/songs would you recommend for us?

Well theirs a few, but I'd definitely say the track "Nasty Funk", that track is currently on most of the digital jukebox's in pubs/bars across the UK at the moment and is also going to be featured in a good British Pshycoligical Thriller film next year in the cinema's called AKA Graham, the films stars some of the actors out of Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barells, as well as the guy from The Mummy, Mummy Returns, Agent Cody Banks & 24 etc.... Nasty Funk also feature's Dee Tails on the record, who was in the group MN8 (They had a string of Top 10's also in the UK & internationally & toured with Janet Jackson etc.., their most well known track being "I've Got A Little Something For You" from the Bad Boys film), Dee's also a great actor now & an awesome guy that I have so much time for & admire, as a person & a professional highly, he had a little spot in Batman Begins too, so he'll be in the film also, then we've got to shoot a video for the track too to go with the release of the film, so hopefully you'll see that about ... a lot of people have taken great interest in the video so it should be good, but yeah definitely check out the "Nasty Funk" track .. I'm back in London too very soon working with some really great people on some real good things that I can't wait to unleash so I'm really looking forward to that, however www. akagraham. com is the official website for the film too that "Nasty Funk" is going to feature in if you want to check that one out.

The picture of Brad on your site, was it taken during your recording sessions?

Nah, it was one of Bradley out & about on one of his mad clubbing sessions.

Which artists do you listen to yourself?

Everyone who knows me, knows that one artist I admire is a guy called Matt Goss (I actually gave Bradley a copy of his last album), he was in a very highly successful band in the late 80's / early 90's called Bros (You know the song "When Will I Be Famous" etc...), well since those days he's gone on to be a very respectable singer / songwriter & he has an amazing voice, I was luck enough to feature in one of his music video's too which is a real blessing for me, but he's an absolutely talented guy with a voice to die for too, he most recently released an album in 2004 called "Early Side Of Later" & came 3rd on Celebrity Hells Kitchen here in the UK, as well as releasing a top selling autobiography so definitely check them out, he's got a place over in LA now & has just finished his latest album which he was working with Babyface on too at one point, so that should be coming soon, his brother Luke is now a real good actor (Hellboy II, Blade II etc...) & they are both really cool down to earth guys that I've been lucky enough to experiance on numerous occasions, theirs a lot of crap thats thrown at you with the music industry but when something is in your heart, you pull through to some level which with certain artists (Including Bradley) you get the same vibe from... and it is all about being proud and cherishing the good things & blessings you've been lucky to have, no one knows what will happen after, though I think about this every day & I am proud of the good things & the things I have got ... rather than the things I haven't if you get what I mean ... but these guys (Matt & Luke) have given me a lot of time & inspiration ... & I'm really proud of them, very very talented guys too.

Who is your Most Fanciable Female, maybe you like some of our S Club girls: Rachel Stevens, Hannah Spearritt, Tina Barrett or Jo O'Meara? :D

My most fanciable female is an actress called Eliza Dushku, she's gorgeous and has that natural beauty about her, you may know her from Buffy as she played Faith in that, however she's been in loads of films since such as Bring It On etc..., in regards to your question about the S Club girls, all of them had their own little appeal didn't they? .. I think the obvious one is Rachel, she's gorgeous, though I also think Tina has something about her too ... and Jo ... I've recently realised just how good a voice that girl has .... I hope she can go on to have some real great happiness & success in regards to future projects cause I do genuinly believe that good talent should shine.. and hey, it's a big world out there too so theirs room for everyone, wel all want the same thing at the end of the day (happiness & succes) .. but yeah, she's actually got a great voice, which is probably slightly undershadowed as I definitely didn't realise to it's whole potential as much as I've noticed these past couple of months just while listening & browsing up a few things on Youtube etc..

Some final words ......

I'd just like to say a big thanks to Sandra for approaching me in regards to doing this little interview, I do appreciate it dearly & I'm extremely thankful for any kind words & support thats given, it's a tough tough business and theirs always people that want to try put you down or see you been pulled down etc... though as I mentioned above when somethings in your heart ... you will pull through, at whatever level that may be ... & i realise that people don't have to give kind words & support (it's easier to give a diss) so again, much love & thanks for the kind words that HAVE been given to me, it is appreciated, I have a theroy where I believe it's all about going for what you want to do within that positive circle & people around ya, anything negative isn't needed so just push forward & do whats in your heart to do, you know at the end of the day.. everyone wants that bit of happiness & success in their lives & I think it's awesome to see when good genuine people do get this ... & I do get quite a buzz when I see this happen, of which it will happen to the people that have this genuinity anyway to some degree, but yeah, again much love & thanks for the little feature & may I wish you the absolute best of luck & love in all that you do .. with the site, the future and anything in life you may wish you aim for .... and just give it your whole heart & soul into what you do.

They ain't no party like a ..... well you know the saying lol

Much Love & thanks always

Robbie

PS If you want to check out some of the sites :

Official Website
MySpace
YouTube

I've already added some MQ pictures of Hannah on the set of Primeval 1, filming the episode 2 where Stephen gets bitten. Siggi found some more and better quality so I've added them too:

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Credit: Hannah Spearritt Fanpage

Paul Cattermole Official announces that You Make Me Happy E.P. which was supposed to be released in August should now be out some time in September:

Due to issues beyond our control, the YOU MAKE ME HAPPY E.P. will now be available towards the end of September (around the 22nd). Please spread the word and make the e.p. (which includes new mixes of YOU MAKE ME HAPPY, DAYLIGHT & THE TRUTH) a success to create the interest we need to move Paul's project on to the next level!!

Many thanks.

Lee on behalf of Paul (who is currently in JAPAN!!)