WE WANT TO HELP
SINITTA FEARS AXE FROM X FACTOR Readers rush to aid NHS split couple
SINITTA fears best pal Simon Cowell has palmed her off from the new X Factor series.
The So Macho singer, pictured surprising Cowell in a leaf outfit at his LA mansion, has not been asked to return to her regular supporting role in the judges’ houses stage.
Sharon Osbourne, Nicole Scherzinger and Louis Walsh are back to join Cowell as judges when the ITV show restarts later this month.
“So Simon has brought all the old gang back but I have not heard anything,” said Sinitta, 52. “It would be rude not to bring me backk too.”
Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, -Versini, Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw haw have been dropped as judges.
And Sinitta said she he was given assuranceses that she would not get the chop too.
She said: “Simon has told me that he would not do it with anyone BIG-HEARTED readers have come to the rescue of an elderly couple torn apart by an NHS crisis.
Marjorie Bazley, 82, will soon face a 200-mile round trip if she wants to visit her dementia-stricken husband Eric.
The 82-year-old retired engineer is being forced to move from his home town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, as his local NHS trust does not have suitable facilities. Marjorie can’t afford the trip to a unit in Dewsbury, West Yorks, and will only be able to make an NHS-funded journey by taxi once a fortnight.
Since we highlighted the couple’s plight, Marjorie has been inundated with offers of lifts – including from Lorna Bennett, else – but I have not been asked.” She wore the palm leaves – and nothing else – to help Cowell, 56, greet X Factor guests in a famous moment from the show in 2009. “But if I do get asked back, I will wear something more extravagant than that leaf outfit,” promised mother-of-two Sinitta, a friend of Cowell’s for four decades. She admitted she has tried to change his style in the past – but he has always resisted. She asked: “Can you honestly see him in anything else? If he were a silhouette you would know it was him. It’s like Bart Simpson. “But I bought him a TechnoShape weight loss machine for his birthday. I take it with us on holiday and if it is around he’ll use it.” S She is godmother to Simon’s son Eric, two. “My kids love him, he’s the best baby in the world. He is just like a little Simon,” she said. “He is a funny guy and he can swim. He makes me broody.” 26, of Barnsley, South Yorks. She will collect Marjorie, take her to see Eric, drop her home again and then return home herself. Lorna, who will spend £50 on fuel, said: “They have been let down and I just want to help.” Marjorie said: “It really is overwhelming.”