Wonderland

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X FACTOR judge Louis Walsh is planning his own TV music reality show.
He will team up with Westlife pal Kian Egan to launch a new girlband called Wonderland.

The two-part series will follow the five girls - who include Kian's wife and ex-Hollyoaks star Jodi Albert, 27 - as they try to crack the charts.

And Louis, 58 - the man behind Boyzone, Westlife and now JLS - confidently predicted: "Wonderland will definitely be the biggest girlband in the world come the end of next year.

"These girls really have something special." Compared to TV juggernaut X Factor, Louis Walsh & Kian Egan's Next Big Thing will be a telly minnow screened on ITV2.

But Wonderland won't be Louis's first act to have an ITV2 reality show - X Factor twins John and Edward Grimes already have one called Jedward: Let Loose.

Just like Boyzone and Westlife, all five Wonderland members are from Dublin.

More than 3,000 hopefuls attended the first audition there - with Sharon Condon, Corrina Durran, Leigh Learmont and Kasey Smith finally being picked to join Kian's missus in the line-up.

Silver-haired Louis added: "It's great that the girls have an ITV2 show already."

It comes after X Factor's future was thrown in doubt this week when Simon Cowell said he had no plans to work in England next year.

Simon revealed: "At the moment you are going to see me doing one show next year - and not one in England.

"I have a contract for this year and that is it."

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Two tracks have been confirmed for the album are In Your Arms written with Mark Owen and a cover of Lady Antebellum's Need You Now

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Jodi Albert has said that Wonderland will not "alienate" female fans by doing revealing photo shoots.

The singer - who is married to their manager, Westlife singer Kian Egan - told the Daily Star that the 'Not A Love Song' group want fans to see them as "their mates".

"Our aim is very much to make songs about women for women," Albert said. "We want girls to see us as their mates and be the kind of girls they could get drunk with or have a girly night in with.

"We love getting dressed up, like we have done on today's shoot, but we're not into really showing off acres of skin. The last thing we'd want to do is alienate female fans."

She quipped: "Before we had our hair and make-up done today, we looked more like Aerosmith - we were all in our baggy jeans and rock T-shirts."

Meanwhile, her bandmate Sharon Condon added: "As women it's in our nature to be sensitive. If any of us are sad or down, we'll give each other a chocolate bar and a cuddle. I'm on hand with the vitamins if ever any of the girls get colds or run down too. We really love each other."

The group's Introduction To Wonderland EP is out now.