Blimey...was just heading to bed and then something else popped up! :lol:

How fab does he look? :wub: there is a Photo slide gallery of the show on their page. :heart:

 

In Pictures: A Night With Will Young on ITV1

 

 

ITV1 tomorrow night presents A Night With Will Young, started at 9:15PM, straight after the latest episode of The X Factor. Presented by Kate Thornton, this one-off special sees the former Pop Idol winner performs some of his biggest hits, like Leave Right Now, as well as new tracks to coincide with the release of his latest album Echoes.

 

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Edited August 25, 201113 yr by Sweetwilliamfan

Another little video by Amaru Don - behind the scenes and photos by Azzara Suliman - which turned up recently:

 

 

This was the chap Will spoke to about the London riots.

Edited August 26, 201113 yr by munchkin

Another little video by Amaru Don - behind the scenes and photos by Azzara Suliman - which turned up recently:

 

 

This was the chap Will spoke to about the London riots.

 

Thanks munchkin.

 

:lol: him wanting his shoes in the pic.

:lol: him wanting his shoes in the pic.

 

I was trying to figure out what he said about them - i think it was that he stole them .... probably from a shoot - they are too big for him :lol:

 

The first part of his interview is up now too:

 

http://amarudontv.com/2011/08/25/will-youn...-echoes-part-1/

Edited August 26, 201113 yr by munchkin

Stay tuned for a big announcement in the world of WIll Young next week.... ;) -Team Will x

 

 

 

I want to know now I can't wait :o

Tweet from a PR company

NEWS

WILL YOUNG TV’S

26/08/2011 | FILED UNDER: NEWS

 

Will Young has had a great week not only does his 5th studio album look set to hit the number one spot this Sunday but he has appeared on some great shows over the past few weeks talking about his album and performing his new single ‘Jealousy’. TV appearances include:

- Something For The Weekend

- National Lottery Live

- This Morning

- The One Show

- BBC Breakfast,

- Rob Brydon

- Daybreak and Lorraine

Check out his new video for Jealousy that has been playlisted at MTV/VH1/The Box/Smash Hits/Magic/ChartShow & Bliss .

 

I didnt know the video was playlisted on MTV.

 

Wonder if he'll be promoting abroad - I do hope so :dance:

From someone on facebook:

 

Is he George Michaels new boyfriend?

 

Avis xx :lol:

 

 

Stay tuned for a big announcement in the world of WIll Young next week.... -Team Will x

Wonder if he'll be promoting abroad - I do hope so :dance:

Argh!! :w00t: :w00t:

I only went out for An hour for godsake! :o

Just got a text from Phil, Will's in Heat not sure what it is though..might be a review?.

Another text from Phil..''It's pants...don't bother''' :lol:

Edited August 26, 201113 yr by Sweetwilliamfan

Argh!! :w00t: :w00t:

I only went out for An hour for godsake! :o

 

Me too. You can't leave your station can you. :w00t:

 

My bet is promo abroad or some arena dates. :dance:

Me too. You can't leave your station can you. :w00t:

 

My bet is promo abroad or some arena dates. :dance:

No you really can't..too much going on all the time.. :dance: Ooh..arena toursdates AND promo abroad would do me very nicely! :w00t:

Argh!! :w00t: :w00t:

I only went out for An hour for godsake! :o

 

 

I can never get on the computer,Kerrie keeps hijacking it,for study purposes...yeah right :rolleyes:

Katy Segal lol sorry I'm sure Joe's lovely but it just makes me mad to think he beat Oly and is now behind Will arghhh but thats great that Will's is selling double Joe hehe although why couldnt Joe come 10th or something lol and I'm not happy about that silly Calvin Harris seperating Olly and Will but we cant have everything can we lol although I am LONGING for the day when Olly and Will do a duet together haha guess thats not going to happen but they really are simular AND BOTH AMAZING :)

 

I wish this girl would give upshe keeps posting OM stuff on Will's FB page.

Katy Segal lol sorry I'm sure Joe's lovely but it just makes me mad to think he beat Oly and is now behind Will arghhh but thats great that Will's is selling double Joe hehe although why couldnt Joe come 10th or something lol and I'm not happy about that silly Calvin Harris seperating Olly and Will but we cant have everything can we lol although I am LONGING for the day when Olly and Will do a duet together haha guess thats not going to happen but they really are simular AND BOTH AMAZING :)

 

I wish this girl would give upshe keeps posting OM stuff on Will's FB page.

 

Obviously some prepuberscent girl. :lol:

Loved this write up from Different scene :lol:

TV FYI: A Night with Will Young

 

If you don’t like him then show some Grace and Leave Right Now, as Different Scene’s enduring love for Willy never Changes. We suggest that you locate your television and Switch It On, because despite being Friday’s Child, the original Pop Idol has his very own show on ITV this Saturday night.

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That’s right, Will Young will be on our TV screens this weekend with A Night with Will Young, a variation of the standard ‘An Audience With…’ format. As well as performing a mix of old and new tracks (including cuts from his latest effort Echoes), the singer and sometime actor will also be answering questions from the studio audience and inflicting ‘surprises’ upon those watching it home.

 

Whereas inane schedule-filler such as this usually makes me want to switch over to something more high-brow, like Total Wipeout, Will has enough charisma and brains to actually make the conversational portions of the show genuinely engaging and less like an extended advert for his new album (which is what this programme is, let’s face it). His fanbase has now matured beyond teeny boppers into the mature mums and adoring gay guys market, so hopefully the questions from the audience will be more thought-provoking than ‘What’s your favourite animal?’. Although, I’d guess it’s an eagle, a big majestic gay eagle.

 

Unlike a lot of his contemporaries, he can’t be accused of being a record company-controlled pop music avatar, as he never seems afraid to voice his opinion (see our interview with him and his recent outspoken views on The X Factor for proof of that), so expect some frank, honest and amusing answers and some delightful singing. Unless he sings Evergreen. I hate that bloody song.

 

You can watch ‘A Night with Will Young’ ITV1 Saturday at 21.15, straight after The X Factor.

 

http://www.differentscene.co.uk/?p=3093

Thanks Bev.

 

Funny write up. More & more people in the media now see Will as his own man. It's taken a while but my it's so good to read. :dance:

Just got a text from Phil, Will's in Heat not sure what it is though..might be a review?.

Another text from Phil..''It's pants...don't bother''' :lol:

 

Im not even going to type up the review not giving them any publicity. its getting as bad as the rag that is the DM :rolleyes:

in addition to Radio Times, Will is in TV times, full page, havent read it, saw it in friends mag, shes saving it for me, its the new mag out this week. :cheer:

Edited August 27, 201113 yr by phil3579

The Sun.

 

edited by gordon smart Will Young: I’m an OCD tidier... I have to straighten pictures and other people’s tablecloths

 

'I have the best job in the world' ... Will Young

 

Plush interview location aside – the private library inside exclusive London members club Soho House – the 32-year-old remains the grounded gentleman he was before he shot to fame on Pop Idol ten years ago.

 

With eight million worldwide album sales under his belt, Will could fund pretty much any overblown vice he fancies.

 

But despite a decade in showbiz, the singer admits his biggest source of expenditure is PARKING TICKETS.

 

Will says: "I spend ridiculous amounts on them. I will not name figures but it could probably feed a city. It's because they have these f****** cameras everywhere that are meant to be for our safety, but they're not!

 

"I'm moving house and stop outside this cafe every day on a yellow line. I risk it and keep an eye out for the traffic warden.

 

"But they've got this frigging camera. I got eight tickets in a row, but they didn't come through until a week later.

 

"The other day I was walking past a traffic warden and swore at him by putting two fingers up and pretending to scratch my face – I'm 32, I knew what I was doing was crazy but it just makes me so angry."

 

 

Will's "normal bloke rating" surges further when he reveals his unglamorous obsession with tidiness.

 

He says: "I'm quite a tidier – I'm a bit OCD. I'm living with my friend right now and her cupboard was in such a mess I couldn't leave it alone. I had to go and buy storage boxes and sort it out.

 

"She came back and was like, 'What have you done to my cupboard?!'

 

"Cleaning helps when I'm trying to work out, 'Is this a good song, is it a crap song?'

 

"I can't stand pictures that aren't straight and I can't abide it when there's a bit of a tablecloth flicked over so part of the table's showing. Even in restaurants I've been known to sort out other people's tables."

 

I have already witnessed Will's tidy side. As I arrive for our interview and he instantly leaps up and begins to clear away a couple of empty water bottles from where I'll be sitting for the chat.

 

The singer has succeeded where millions of other talent show contestants have failed. Tonight, as homes up and down the country switch on to watch wannabes trying to succeed on The X Factor, he will be bracing himself for tomorrow's news that his fifth studio album, Echoes, has gone to No1.

 

He is outselling 2009 X Factor winner Joe McElderry by nearly two-to-one.

 

Ten years ago, Will – the self-confessed "posh boy from Berkshire" – was preparing his audition for new TV singing talent show Pop Idol.

 

Having won the show, broken the record for fastest-selling single of all-time and coped with his homosexuality being made public, he is well used to life in the limelight.

 

But Will admits he would struggle to handle the level of attention the X Factor finalists are exposed to these days.

 

He says: "It's different now – there are so many more avenues.

 

 

"When I did Pop Idol, ITV2 had just launched and maybe there was a whisper of a website.

 

"I think we did one interview every two weeks.

 

"There's more jeopardy now – I think people know what they could get from entering shows such as The X Factor.

 

"But no one knew what we could get.

 

"I remember being offered a role in We Will Rock You before we'd even reached the final ten and seriously thinking about not carrying on with Pop Idol. I thought the show might not go anywhere.

 

"I didn't know what was going to happen. I thought Pop Idol could be more damaging. I'd been at musical theatre college and there I was being offered a potential lead in a show – that was the peak of what everyone in my class was heading for, so why would I continue with Pop Idol?

 

"But nowadays you'd probably have a fan club before you've even signed up to the competition.

 

 

"Things are just bigger now. It sells more papers, there's more exposure on every contestant.

 

"My sexuality wouldn't have stayed as quiet as it did if I was auditioning now.

 

"There's far more of an appetite to know about contestants' private lives.

 

"It was still madness around Pop Idol because it was growing so quickly, but much less than now."

 

The reality talent show game is a dangerous one – there have been plenty of casualties along the way.

 

From last year's X Factor series, Cher Lloyd and Katie Waissel both received death threats from wound-up viewers.

 

From earlier years, 2004's winner Steve Brookstein has seen his popularity plummet – in the weeks leading up to last year's final he was reduced to gigging in coffee shops.

 

And Gareth Gates – Will's opponent in the 2002 Pop Idol final – has been forced to resort to cruise ship crooning.

 

But Will has stayed in the good books of the British public and reveals he still receives encouragement from people on the street.

 

He says: "A white van went past the other day and they shouted out, 'Keep going Will'.

 

 

 

Chart contender ... Will is outselling 2009 X Factor winner Joe McElderry by nearly two-to-one

"You get the impression that people are still really behind you. I think it's because of the show that people really like seeing you do well. I turn round and shout back, 'I will keep going, thank you'.

 

"There are some days when I feel like the most popular postman in the world – the embodiment of Postman Pat – because people are so nice.

 

"I think it's because people know how much I appreciate it.

 

"I genuinely believe I have the best job in the world. I am so happy that people want to buy my record. If it wasn't for a talent show, I wouldn't be here ten years later.

 

"I had done my time sending off my demos, I entered other talent shows, I worked at a record company, I even entered a boyband competition on This Morning.

 

"Before getting on Idol I was doing the rounds. The show was my break and I'll never forget that."

 

Will insists he is kept grounded by splitting his time between his London pad and a house in Cornwall he bought a few years ago.

 

His bolthole in the south-west helps him relax, with the only stress coming from his campaigning to keep the local post office open.

 

 

 

He says: "I absolutely love it down there. Cornwall almost feels like another country and I can just get away from everything.

 

"I always stop by my local post office on my way back from surfing and have a good old gossip with the locals. I love them, they treat me really normally.

 

"The local pub had a party a few years ago and I knew it was make or break when I went in fancy dress as a granny and sang with the local band. But it went down all right, so after that it was OK.

 

"Living in both London and Cornwall means I can live but also get all of the benefits of being in the fame game."

 

When asked about the perks of the job, he doesn't turn his nose up like many celebrities and whinge about it being embarrassing, or how it's a drop in the ocean compared to the trials of being famous. Will admits it is all still as exciting now as it was at the beginning.

 

He said: "You get incredible things just because you have a recognisable face – I get free clothes, amazing clothes that I couldn't ever have been able to afford.

 

"And gifts – people actually give me gifts for no reason.

 

"People also serve you at bars quicker.

 

"I really notice this one when I go to America as I'm not known at all there. Do you think I ever get served there? Do I f***!

 

"People also just let you go to the front of the queue, it's amazing.

 

"But also, I get to put my voice to causes that I believe in.

 

"I'm just a guy who sings. But because I'm famous and people like my music, someone might possibly print what I say about charities or events – and that's incredibly good."

 

c.mcguire@the-sun.co.uk

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...mp;ATTR=Bizarre

 

Check out the pics. :D

Edited August 27, 201113 yr by truly talented

Telegraph

 

Will Young: I want to be the next David Attenborough Will Young on the riots, Simon Cowell, life after 'Pop Idol' and his passion for ornithology.

Will Young: eight million album sales and some unlikely ambitions Photo: JULIAN ANDREWS By Bryony Gordon

 

Will Young was not one of the 12.6 million people who sat down to watch The X Factor last weekend. Instead, he was in his van, stuck on the M5 as he drove back from his cottage in Bodmin, listening to Radio 4. “I do love Radio 4,” he says, a dreamy look spreading across his face. “It’s all about Women’s Hour for me. Jenni Murray. She’s just… brilliant.” He sighs, a man in love. “And Eddie Mair. His voice!” He adores Any Questions, too, but, if we get him started on that, we’ll be here all day.

 

Young is 32. This winter will mark 10 years since he won Pop Idol, an embryonic X Factor that was Simon Cowell’s first foray into television talent shows. Young finds it quite amusing to watch the show again now because “it looks like Polish Eurovision or something.” Whereas X Factor contestants today must audition in front of a crowd of thousands and provide some sort of back story (tragedy, mental illness etc), Young had to stand on a star in a conference room in front of a panel of judges sitting on fold-up chairs.

 

“The table they were sitting behind was worse than a picnic table. It was like something at a village fete, with a paper cloth on it. I’m amazed they didn’t have cakes and biscuits.” He sang Blame it on the Boogie and did a rubbish dance. Cowell told him he was a good-looking boy with a nice voice and put him through, but Young considered pulling out because he had been offered a job in a musical.

 

“I had no idea that this thing was going to be massive. And, looking back, there was something brilliant about it because it was innocent and it wasn’t tainted by the knowledge of what it was, what it would become. When I watch it now, it looks as if it is stuck in a time before television was even invented.”

 

Which is funny, because Will Young is like a pop star from a time before pop stars were invented. He has just released his fifth album and has sold eight million records, but interviewing him isn’t like interviewing someone who is on course to hit number one tomorrow.

 

 

For his latest album, Echoes, he wrote a letter to Richard X, the producer he wanted to work with. “It’s only polite to do that. I thought, ‘I’m not going to email him; I’m going to write him a note so he knows I’m serious about it.’ And I love writing letters. I have a pen pal called Caroline. She runs a shop that I used to go to, and she is in her sixties. We have been writing to each other for five years. It’s just great.”

 

It’s hard to imagine any other Cowell graduates saying quite the same thing, or then engaging in a 10-minute discussion about modern communication and its role in this month’s riots, before going on to talk about tough sentencing and how social cohesion could perhaps better be achieved by getting those responsible for the looting to be made to do community service in high-visibility vests. But then Young is not a normal Cowell graduate, not by any stretch of the imagination.

 

He grew up in Berkshire with his twin brother, Rupert, and elder sister Emma. His parents (his father runs an engineering business) packed him off to boarding school at nine, and he later attended Wellington College before studying Politics at Exeter University. His experiences of boarding school authority meant that dealing with Cowell was a doddle, and, when the mogul called one of Young’s performances “distinctly average”, the singer had no trouble standing up to him. “I respect what you are saying, and thank you for saying it, but I don’t think you could call that performance average.” Cowell, briefly silenced, responded by calling Young a “true gent”.

 

Young has not worked with Cowell since Pop Idol. “People ask me so many questions about him, it’s almost as if we were lovers [Young is gay and came out publicly shortly after winning the show]. And they are only interested because I was this innocent little boy with a lisp standing up to the evil wolf in a very polite way. I think it sort of represented so many different good things about Britain. But I don’t see him, or even hang out in those circles. I don’t holiday in Barbados: I holiday on Bodmin Moor.”

 

He does admit to being “incredibly egocentric” and he has a therapist, but, other than that, he is more posh boy than pop star. He is intelligent, articulate, thoughtful. When I ask if he thinks pop music has become sexualised, he seems concerned. “I haven’t thought about that so much, and maybe I should. That’s a whole other article, isn’t it? I mean, I think that’s an interesting conversation and perhaps I should be having it more often.”

 

His songs are not sexual, and he has been behind some of the most heartbreaking ballads of the past 10 years – Leave Right Now, Who Am I, Friday’s Child – but he tells me that he likes “the idea of bringing sexuality into a song in a subtle way, and slightly turning it on its head a bit”. Hence in his new video, Jealousy, he stands in spandex watching a couple perform gymnastics. “I like the idea of giving the audience the option to make up its own mind as to what is going on.”

 

Young is not just a singer, a pretty face. He has appeared on Question Time and made a foray into acting, starring in Mrs Henderson Presents with Dame Judi Dench. He has also provided financing for Ralph Fiennes’s adaptation of Coriolanus, an experience that has left him hungry to get into producing.

 

“He [Fiennes] came round to my house, and I said to my housemates, ‘Quick, get out – Lord Voldemort’s coming!’ He was quoting Shakespeare in my kitchen. It was surreal. He is very passionate and inspiring and intense. I didn’t know Coriolanus: it’s one of Shakespeare’s more modern plays and one of his noisiest.”

 

Young says that it took him back to his days studying King Lear at A level. “I think that was one of the major turning points for me, along with studying Marx. I learnt that we are all the same when you strip away the clothes. He goes from king to vagabond on the moor, and that was the most powerful and mind-blowing thing for a 17 year-old.”

 

If this sounds pretentious, then that’s because it is. But perhaps we should allow Young this pomposity given that at that time he had not yet revealed his sexuality to his parents. That happened when he got to university, and then he had to go through the whole thing again with an interview in the News of the World after another paper threatened to out him.

 

“Coming out once is tough, but coming out twice is a bit unfair. It just had to be done, and it was pretty difficult for a while,” he says. “But the great thing is that the next album went on to sell twice as much, and now I really don’t think it is headline news to be gay any more.”

 

Young once said that he had set himself a deadline of his 30th birthday to become a singer. I wonder, what would he have done if not this? He goes quiet for a while and strokes his chin. “I think I would be doing something with animals. I’m a bit obsessed with African birds. Last year, I went to Namibia and before that Lake Malawi, where I watched fish eagles.” I tell him I once saw a golden eagle. “Aquila chrysaetos,” he beams, giving it its Latin name.

 

“I think I am at the point where I probably need to be walking around with a pair of binoculars. And, when I get to my late forties, I just want to be the next David Attenborough. Yeah.” He starts to nod. “I think that’s what I can see myself doing.”

 

‘A Night With Will Young’ is on ITV1 at 9.15 on Aug 27. His new album, ‘Echoes’, is out now.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/r...tenborough.html