LEONA LEWIS

October 31, 2007 :: Leona Lewis is pictured below leaving the BBC Maida Vale studios in London. Click the image below to access the entire set of pictures.

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Leona was lucky enough to receive some free goods at the Saturday Night Divas Gift Lounge — Click the image below to access the entire set.

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You can now preview a few tracks from Leona’s debut album Spirit. Choose the song you want to hear from the player below — each clip is about 30 seconds long. The songs sound great!

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Simon Cowell is putting the finishing touches to Leona’s debut CD, Spirit, which hits shops on November 12.

But just days later little-known management company UEG Music plan to put out another collection of Leona tracks, called The Best Kept Secret, from before she was a star.

Cowell, is furious with the rival disc and his lawyers look certain to try to block it.

A spokesman for Leona told me last night: “UEG approached Leona and her representatives earlier this year — but they do not have the rights to release these demos.”

UEG are putting out the record in a bid to claw back tens of thousands of pounds they claim they spent developing Leona from when she was an unknown 16-year-old in Hackney, East London.

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Leona Lewis is looking forward to another big Christmas after she was invited by Westminster officials to turn on the shopping mecca’s famous festive lights.

The X Factor 2006 winner - who shot to the top of the UK charts this week with “Bleeding Love”, her second No. 1 - will be given the honour next month, it was announced last night. The special ceremony, which will also see Leona perform tracks from her debut album, will take place on November 7th.

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Leona Lewis has set a new record for first week sales in 2007.

She managed to shift 218,805 copies of single Bleeding Love placing her straight at No 1.

The X Factor winner beat Take That’s Rule The World by an extra 120,973 copies.

Manager Simon Cowell thinks Take That deserve the trouncing for going up against Leona in the first place.

He told the Daily Mirror: “Take That were used to spoil the Leona party but it backfired and I feel really disappointed for them.

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Leona Lewis has laughed off rumors of a romance with her mentor Simon Cowell, because he is too old.

Cowell, 48, discovered 22-year-old Lewis as a judge on The X Factor, and is masterminding her quest for musical success - but that’s as far as their relationship goes.

She says, “He’s a real gentleman and really supportive - he’s very popular with the ladies. I didn’t fancy him, he’s old enough to be my dad! But a lot of my friends who met him thought he was lovely.”

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Leona Lewis has revealed how her mixed-race looks made her a target for bullying classmates at school.

‘I was the only one at stage school who wasn’t white’, she explains. ‘Some kids would come up to me and say “Oh, you’re mixed-race”, making it a big deal when it wasn’t.

‘I later went to a school where the majority of the kids were black and because I used to wear my hair out, I’d get teased for not wearing it in braids and for being different there too.’

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Leona Lewis has proved she still has the X Factor with her latest single Bleeding Love going straight to number one.

The single sold a whopping 218,000 copies in just one week. That’s more than the rest of the top five singles managed to sell added together.

Simon Cowell said: “The sales are incredible. I’m absolutely thrilled for Leona, she thoroughly deserves it.”

Well done, Leona!

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