Church closures

In all the excitement over her not-especially-good chat show and the diverting row with Girls Aloud, nobody really paid much attention to the less-than-glittering performance of the reinvented Charlotte Church singing career.

Almost nobody. Label Sony-BMG did, and they weren't happy. Shortly after taking a decision not to bother to launch her in the US, Sony-BMG have dropped her.

Or "allowed her to concentrate on opportunities presenting television programmes", as her publicist would rather it be presented. It's the sort of mutual consent where someone yells "I'm going" as they pick their best clothes out the rose bushes, we suspect.

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