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First Fame Academy winner David Sneddon is quitting his career as a pop star to become a songwriter, less than a year after winning the talent contest… “He was never entirely comfortable with living the life of a pop star,” the statement [from his management] said. (source: BBC News)

…but you have to question how after just two singles he knows what the ‘the life of a pop star’ is.

Please, please let this signal the end of all these pop-star wannabe TV shows. They have hardly launched a string of massive careers:

1. Will Young wins Pop Idol, but runner-up Gareth Gates seems to have received far more media attention and more chart placings.

2. A Google search for winner Will Young returns 50,300 results. A Google search for runner-up Gareth Gates returns 74,800 results.
3. Hear’say win Pop Stars, but soon split up, replace one of their number with a newcomer and then… split up for good.
4. Pop Stars runners-up Liberty X, meanwhile, seem to be going from strength to strength. Is there a runners’-up theme developing here?
5. Girls Aloud, winners of Pop Stars The Rivals, pop up in the charts several times, but then one of the band members gets dragged into court, accused of getting in a fight with a toilet attendant, and is sentenced to 120 hours community service.
6. Meanwhile, runners up to the runners up of Pop Stars The Rivals, Phixx look like grabbing the available limelite in the wake of this courtroom debacle. Rumour has it that their name came about because they considered the show to be a fix (phixx - get it?).

Enough said, I think.

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