Remember Gareth Gates??
Well of course you do - as well as being the runner-up in the first series of Pop Idol, Gareth Gates was also the subject of the joke about the boy who went to a shop for a Mars Bar and came out an hour later with 50 packs of M&Ms....
Most of us had happily filed Gareth Gates away in a drawer marked 'reality show hasbeens'.
BUT NO!!! - as the new Gareth Gates documentary series is hoping to prove.
Gareth Gates shot to fame in 2002 thanks to Pop Idol and Simon Cowell. He was the shiny faced, spiky-haired boy only able to conquer his stuttering by singing old Westlife songs. He had a great "back story" more of "back stories" to come here on Fredordead. "Back stories" are more important than talent on X factor / Pop idol / Celebrity Pet Jungle How Clean Is Your Bee Hive. Such was the power of little Gareth Gates' appeal that he almost won the first series of Pop Idol, and only failed to because of an organised protest vote for his fellow talented Pop Idol finalist Will Young (eh eh oooooow)
As "Pop Idol" runner-up, Gareth Gates got to sing Unchained Melody - and sell 1.3 million copies of the single - before slipping away into obscurity thanks to a succession of dreadful cover versions, badly thought-out second albums and all sorts of tabloid headlines about sleeping with pikey model Jordan.
Well, start forgetting that you ever forgot Gareth Gates - this time his comeback is real, and horribly ubiquitous-sounding. See BBC News:
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Labels: X Factor
posted by Freddy @ Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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