Strictly glitterball favourite
after last week’s dance-off there has been more drama for Alexandra with the news that a firm she owns have been hit with a £230,000 bill for unpaid income tax after a twoyear HM Revenue and Customs probe.
The investigation started in 2014 when the singer applied to close down her company, called Miss Contagious Limited, with more than £400,000 in assets.
The firm were set up in October 2009, the year after she won The X Factor and launched her pop career.
They are described as a “performing arts” company and Alex is listed as a director.
Official documents show that the liquidation was put on hold while HMRC scrutinised the firm’s tax affairs. The liquidators were eventually forced to pay HMRC £228,940 to settle “an agreed liability due to HM Revenue & Customs” for unpaid income tax and national insurance payments.
Alexandra won the fifth series of The X Factor in 2008 before releasing her debut album, Overcome, the following year.
In June 2014, she starred in musical The Bodyguard, before going on to star in Sister Act The Musical two years later.
The singer and her partner Gorka Marquez topped the leaderboard last week with a Mary Poppinsthemed Charleston but found themselves in the dance-off alongside EastEnders actor Davood Ghadami and his partner Nadiya Bychkova. Alexandra – who has since hit out at reports she and Marquez were embroiled in a row ahead of their victorious dance-off – said the bottom two was a “scary place to be”.
She also revealed she had injured her left hip ahead of the show on Saturday night.
“I was actually in excruciating pain for the dance and then in the dance-off again I just thought to myself I need to just go for it,” she said.
Asked why she thought people were not voting for her, Alexandra said: “I don’t know. We were at the top of the leaderboard and it’s such a blessing to be at that point but maybe people think that you’re safe and that’s why they don’t vote.”