Dannii Minogue

Dannii prior to her time as a judge on The X Factor was well known to UK audiences as she appeared as the character Emma Jackson in the long running Australian day time soap Home and Away.  She then followed her sister Kyle into the pop world by releasing her first album Love and Kisses in 1991.  She had moderate success with her pop career and ended up releasing six albums and numerous singles most of which charted in some degree with most of her songs going to number one in the dance charts.

Danni then became a judge on the Australian version of the show Australia’s Got Talent before she was requested by Simon Cowell to appear on the X Factor 2007 where she had many on screen arguments with fellow host Sharon Osbourne, these arguments led Sharon not to be invited as a judge for X Factor 2008.

Dannii managed to beat the X Factor betting odds and Simon Cowell by her category winning the X Factor with her X Factor contestant Leon Jackson and the runner up was Rhydian Roberts who was also in Dannii's group.