Wrong hubby

Goldie Cheung seems to have left the XFactor - and the Mail hints that marital influence was involved.

"A source said her decision to leave was triggered by discussions with her husband, David Webb, 52, who used to work for Chris Patten, the former British Governor of Hong Kong. Mr Patten is now chairman of the BBC. Following a series of conversations with her husband, Hong Kong-born Ms Cheung concluded she was being used by the programme as a figure of fun – like last year's tone-deaf act Wagner Carrilho – rather than a serious contender."


This information seems to have got mangled in arriving in the mouth of ITV This Morning presenter who indicated that Goldie was married to the BBC Chairman. More details if and when it reaches the ITV iPlayer......

Here's Goldie from 2008 - in a show with a familiar format in Hong Kong