X Factor rapper Honey G plans live Mannequin Challenge with judges to boost her chance of reaching the semi-final
Controversial contestant has one last trick up her sleeve to ensure she goes through to the X Factor's penultimate round
IF you thought you had seen it all from HONEY G, then think again.
The controversial rapper has one last trick up her sleeve to ensure she goes through to the X Factor semi-finals.
And she won’t be alone. The star has roped in judges SIMON COWELL, NICOLE SCHERZINGER, LOUIS WALSH and her mentor SHARON OSBOURNE to take part in the skit, which will be set to the song Black Beatles by RAE SREMMURD and GUCCI MANE.
The performance is bound to be the highlight of Saturday night’s show and could potentially push Honey through to the penultimate week of this year’s contest.
A source revealed: “Honey is singing two songs this week — U Can’t Touch This by MC HAMMER, picked by Louis, and her own choice, a mash-up of SALT-N-PEPA’s Push It mixed into Black Beatles.
“She came up with the amazing idea of doing a Mannequin Challenge live on the show and getting all the judges involved. It’s a big risk in front of millions of viewers as it could all go horribly wrong, but if she pulls it off it will be huge.
“After ending up in the bottom two last week she is doing everything she can to get into the semis.”
The Mannequin Challenge has spread all over the world after being started by teenagers in a US high school last month.
Everyone from HILLARY CLINTON to ANDY MURRAY has taken part in the craze, which involves imitating mannequins by standing frozen to the spot, usually with the song Black Beatles playing.
Honey G has held on in the X Factor for seven weeks of the live finals despite a viewer backlash and claims that she is a fake.
But despite her stunt, she still faces stiff competition from remaining contestants EMILY MIDDLEMAS, SAARA ALTO, 5 AFTER MIDNIGHT and current favourite MATT TERRY.
I can reveal Matt is performing Secret Love Song by LITTLE MIX and JASON DERULO as well as SIA’s Alive.
Emily is tackling BRITNEY SPEARS’ Toxic and Human by RAG ‘N’ BONE MAN.
Saara is singing ABBA’s The Winner Takes It All and a mix of Diamonds Are Forever and Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend.
And 5 After Midnight will sing Uptown Funk and a mash-up of JUSTIN BIEBER’s Sorry with DRAKE’s One Dance.
So it’s all to play for in the quarter-finals — but right now it looks like Honey is the one to, well, bee-t.
Kinky Taylor smoulder thigh
TAYLOR SWIFT looks thighly delighted as she fools around with pal TODRICK HALL.
The pop star was loving the single life on Wednesday after watching him in the Kinky Boots musical on Broadway.
They became pals after his mash-up of Taylor’s hits went viral and the singer then invited him on her 1989 tour last year.
Todrick and his cast mates kept Taylor giggling in the absence of pals CARA DELEVINGNE, GIGI HADID, SELENA GOMEZ and KARLIE KLOSS.
Todrick said: “Taylor’s been the person I’ve been calling the most when I’m freaking out.
“She’s been like, ‘Todrick, you got this’. I’ve been strutting in my heels for her on FaceTime.”
Sole-ful stuff.
Glorious Little Mix
AFTER a grim year for music sales, LITTLE MIX are breaking the mould.
The group’s new record Glory Days – one of the best albums of 2016 – is on course to achieve the biggest first-week sales for a girl band since Survivor by DESTINY’S CHILD in 2001. As of yesterday, the album had sold more than 88,000 copies.
That’s more than SUGABABES, GIRLS ALOUD or ATOMIC KITTEN managed in their first week, proving how big an achievement this is.
Glory Days is 2016’s second-fastest selling album with only Blackstar by the late DAVID BOWIE ahead, on 146,000 first-week sales.
This is the first No1 album for JESY NELSON, PERRIE EDWARDS, JADE THIRLWALL and LEIGH-ANNE PINNOCK.
The celebrations are going to be messy.
Jezza's band tour
REPLICATING the success of the iconic Top Gear theme tune Jessica was always going to be tough for JEREMY CLARKSON and co.
But they’ve swerved the idea of getting a big name to record a title track for The Grand Tour, preferring to perform one themselves.
I can reveal Jeremy, RICHARD HAMMOND and JAMES MAY are the musicians behind the hit Amazon show’s new tune, which will be heard for the first time in tonight’s second episode.
They had originally planned to get WILKO JOHNSON and THE WHO’s ROGER DALTREY to record the ditty, but timings didn’t work out.
READ MORE ABOUT THE GRAND TOUR HERE
A source said: “Jessica by THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND has become so iconic that choosing something to replace it was going to be tough. Someone else has written it, but Jeremy, Richard and James have recorded it. It sounds great.”
James is a pianist and Richard plays the bass, meaning Jeremy was left to bang the drums.
Last week’s first show ditched the usual intro for a stunning sequence that saw Jeremy leave the BBC and head to Los Angeles.
There he drove across the Californian desert flanked by his two pals and thousands of local motoring enthusiasts as I Can See Clearly Now boomed out.
Low key as ever.
Joe's Stark claim
JOE JONAS and SOPHIE TURNER are now happy to be seen out and about after I revealed them getting intimate at the MTV VMAs in Rotterdam early this month.
The pop heart-throb and actress, who plays Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, were snapped together leaving their hotel room in New York City on Wednesday, above. Their outing came on the same day the former JONAS BROTHERS singer revealed his band DNCE’s new track Be Mean was inspired by his naughty sexploits with past lovers.
Joe told how it was written about a time he got “a little crazy” in the bedroom with someone.
That could be why Sophie looks so dishevelled.
Caring for Kanye
KIM KARDASHIAN had to get through Thanksgiving without husband KANYE after his condition was deemed worse than feared.
He is now expected to remain in an LA hospital until the weekend while he is treated for “temporary psychosis” brought on by lack of sleep and extreme dehydration.
Yesterday, KENDALL JENNER tried to reassure fans of the clan, tweeting: “So so so thankful.”
Wishing Kanye a speedy recovery.