• Jedward are twin teenage boys -- John and Edward Grimes -- from Lucan, Dublin who entered Simon Cowell’s ‘talent’ show last year
• It quickly became obvious that despite their quirky ‘There’s Something About Mary’ haircuts and cheese-tastic matching outfits, the twins could not sing
• They became the centre of attention, being booed at every live performance, with all talk focused on how they were lowering the tone of the competition
• With the resilience of cockroaches and a truly unbelievable and inexplicable performance of Britney Spears ‘Oops I Did it Again’ complete with matching skin tight red catsuits, the pair began to win the public
• Soon Jedward were the only reason to watch the show -- will they finally get voted out? What song will they murder? What will they wear?
• A ‘Jedward to Win’, “Jed we Can” campaign was launched to try and drive the twins to victory
• The campaign failed but not before they gave their ‘best’ performance of the show by bending the rules during ‘Queen week’ when they sang and rapped (Irish rappers!!) a version of ‘Under Pressure’ mixed with Vanilla Ice’s ‘Ice Ice Baby’ -  a song which samples the Queen song’s bassline.

It was reported today that Vanilla Ice saw the performance and is now keen to work with the Irish twins. They’ve also been rumoured to have been offered TV shows and modelling gigs so it looks like whether you love ‘em or hate ‘em, Jedward are here to stay (for a while at least!). Check out their attempt at ‘ Ice Ice Baby’ here complete with intro which gives a bit of a flavour of their ‘journey’ -- performance starts at 2mins 32

Johnson, 27, gave what was described as “singlehandedly, the best first audition I have heard” on the talent show according to show judge, Simon Cowell. However the compliment went to his head as he was frequently described as cocky on the show and was subject to a lot of bad press during the show with someone even declaring him “more hated than Hitler”. Clearly the guy that said that needs to pick up a history book and get out of the house on a Saturday night more – Hitler murder millions of people…Johnson only murdered a few songs!

Johnson is bisexual and stated in an interview with the Mirror: ‘I don’t like to conform or be put into one box or another… If I like someone’s personality it doesn’t really matter what they look like or what sex they are.’”

Can’t see myself dragging myself to the sausage-fest that will be this gig…particularly after listening to a track on his website…but it could be a good night -if you’re into that kind of thing!

3 Words Album Cover

So, since  I don’t need much of an excuse to look at pictures of Cheryl, here’s a quick overview of her rise to stardom.

Cheryl – she was Cheryl Tweedy then – was working as a waitress when she auditioned for “Popstars: The Rivals” in 2002- a talent contest to form a girl group and a boy band. Tweedy recieved the most votes in the final becoming the first girl to snag a place in the girl group – Girls Aloud. Back then Cheryl wasn’t…how to put this….as ‘polished’ as she is now. A transformation that has led to her being nicknamed by the media as ‘Queen of Chavs’. A lover of tracksuit bottoms and the bare midriff look, Cheryl also clearly shares my love of ice-cream sundaes!

Girls Aloud - The Early Years

It took Cheryl a while to become a darling in the eyes of the UK public and her career teetered on the edge in 2003 when she was charged with assaulting a toilet attendant at a nightclub. The fight was allegedly racially motivated but Cole proclaimed self defence.

As one fifth of Girls Aloud, Cheryl, through some great PR managed to put the assault behind her and the band went on to release over twenty singles and five albums. The band went from strenth to strenth, earning the most consecutive top ten entries in the UK by a female group.

Apparently a psychic told Cheryl she should give a footballer her phone number and so like an obedient gal she gave her digits to Ashley Cole. Since Cheryl and I never crossed paths, in 2006 she married him. The wedding pictures had class written all over them. I’m surprised they didn’t rig a car to take off into the sky outside the Church a la Grease.

Ashley was a bad boy though with reports that he had cheated on Cheryl hitting the press in 2008 – apparently he’d done the deed with a hairdresser and a glamour model. Poor Cheryl was devestated but (stupidly) she took him back.

In 2008, Cheryl was drafted in to be a judge on the X-Factor in place of Sharon Osbourne. Appearing on our TV screens week in week out, Cole’s star rose. Her honest and down-to-earth approach to judging on the show has endeared her to the public and taken her from being ‘one of Girls Aloud’ to being the nations sweetheart.

In 2009, Cole was positioned as a ’style icon’, appearing on the cover of British Vogue in February giving the mag record sales for the month.

FHM readers voted Cole the sexiest woman in their ‘top 100′ poll in 2009.

She also was awarded the title of ‘Best Dressed Woman’ in 2009 by Glamour. I can see why….

Cole has most recently become the face of L’Oreal so now as well as seeing her on X Factor and promoting her book, we can hear her dulcet Jordies tones on the L’Oreal TV ads.

Is Cheryl in danger of becoming over-exposed? That would depend on whether you love her or hate her!?