BAD Luck, Free Like the Wind, and Waltz of the Prisoner were top crowd pleasers as convicts faced off at a prison in Lima to sing in the Peruvian underworld’s version of the popular TV show American Idol.

The mother of Pop Idol star Mark Rhodes has been diagnosed with lung cancer, he revealed today.

The UK’s biggest mortgage lender Halifax launched a Pop Idol-style competition to find two bands for its latest advert, it emerged today.

Pop band One True Voice suffered further indignity today as they were named Britain’s worst group – just one day after their concert tour was axed.

Will Young looks set to take part in a special edition of Pop Idol involving winners from different countries competing against each other.