Tonight is the final of this year’s X-Factor, and everyone at team smol will be tuning in to watch Scarlett take on Anthony and Dalton to be crowned this year’s winner and by default, the headline act to switch on Chingford’s Christmas lights. Since 2004, we’ve watched thousands of contestants don the stage, dancing, prancing and surprising the millions of us watching at home. Frankly, the only thing we haven’t seen is Simon wearing a fully buttoned shirt. For the thousands of contestants, there have been some real winners of the show to go on to record deals and sell out...

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  ‘I’m a Celeb’ returns to our screens tonight and sees Dec (or is it Ant? We have no idea, no one really knows for sure which one is which anyway) partner up with Holly Willoughby for the first time to take 10 ‘celebrities’through their paces in the Australian outback.   They will face all manner of horrors over the next 2 months; starvation, snakes, damp sleeping conditions and the possibility that someone brought an acoustic guitar to play ‘Wonderwall’ around the campfire 😜   In the unexpected possibility that this encourages you to go camping, we’ve compiled our top...

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It’s Halloween this evening     What’s creepier than that?     I’ll tell you what’s more scary -     The children in my flat!           There’s a zombie in the kitchen     Bobbing apples in some goo,     He’s wiped his face repeatedly     And now my towels are blue.           The vampire in the living room     Should not have been let in.     There’s fake blood on the curtains     Where he’s wiped it from his chin.          ...

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Another year means another trip to City Hall, as we get ready to tune in to watch Lord Sugar’s next business candidates stumble their way through a 12 week scavenger hunt.   There will be tears, tantrums and the inevitable plethora of jokes that even Penguin biscuits would be ashamed of. Over the next 3 months, 16 of the UK’s most ambitious entrepreneurs will be locked up in a London townhouse with no access to the outside world, presumably also refusing mealtimes because they’ll just be eating each other for breakfast.   No one here at smol can help them...

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On the 1st September, Antwerp welcomed 65,000 people to celebrate Laundry Day. The only difference is, their Laundry Day involves less electronic appliances and more electronic dance.   The one-day dance festival in Belgium is regarded as one of the craziest in Europe, and if you missed it this year, why not check our top ten tips to recreate your very own laundry day festival at home. Simulate the pain of pounding bass by clipping eight plastic clothes pegs on to each ear. Forget about using a glass, create your very own sound system by putting your phone in the washing...

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