X-FACTOR CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE BID GETS SPAMMY BOOST

Obviously, "X-Factor a bit tacky" isn't news, but the use of people's mobile numbers - harvested when they voted - to send apparently unsolicited text messages begging them to download the winner's single - is a bit of a new low.

Meanwhile, Sharon Osbourne is having her breasts reduced, just a few months after having them enlarged. It turns out that having huge tits isn't comfortable - as, erm, any woman with large breasts could have told her. It must be wonderful to have the money to piss away on that sort of stupidity, and it's great to see that surgeons in the UK have nothing better to do with their time than indulge the whims of the idle, fickle rich.

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