Simon Cowell Is Planning Another MAJOR Change To This Year’s X Factor

PETER Andre is preparing for his first live dance on the glitzy BBC show Strictly Come Dancing by training with his professional partner in Crawley.

Sources at the BBC say they have been trying for more than a month to get their dancers and their celebrities on shows including Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women.

Meanwhile, Holly – who has Harry, six, Belle, four, and 11-month-old son Chester with her husband Dan Baldwin – has insisted she is “done” with having children because she keeps having to take maternity leave from her TV shows.

Simon Cowell has said he hopes The X Factor will beat Strictly in the ratings this year.

Daniel O’Donnell X Factor judges (left to right) Nick Grimshaw, Rita Ora, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and Simon Cowell for the ITV1 talent show.

“Caroline [Flack] and Olly [Murs] have been really helpful and they’ve told us how it’s worked years before”.

And even though a mid-week ITV2 show is all a bit “Popstars: The Rivals”, we don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing either.

Strictly’s launch on BBC One attracted an average of 8.7 million viewers, a 41.7% share of the audience on Saturday September 5, with a peak of 9.7 million viewers.

A Strictly source told Metro.co.uk: ‘Everyone is delighted that Strictly has had its highest ratings for a launch show since 2006.

An ITV spokesman said: “We consider guests from all shows across channels for our programmes”.

The head of ITV recently accused the BBC of deliberately orchestrating the scheduling clash between Strictly and The X Factor.

“Perhaps they don’t want to promote us when we are already ahead of The X Factor“.

He added: “It’s a game to them and it’s business to us”.