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Matt Cardle Spends £8,000 On Drink Tab

Matt Cardle reportedly ran up a £8,000 bar bill when partying on New Year's Eve.

The Sun newspaper revealed that the X Factor winner and friends, including fellow competitor Aiden Grimshaw, left the Tup Tup Palace nightclub in Newcastle upon Tyne through the back door at 3am.

The group are said to have drunk four bottles of Ace of Spades champagne, four of Grey Goose vodka, three of Havana rum, three of Jagermeister and 50 bottles of beer.

It was then reported that Cardle and Grimshaw drank for another three hours at their city hotel.

A source said: "The boys looked like they were having a great time and were definitely a hit with the ladies. Drinks were flowing all night long."

Cardle and his management are said to have split the bar bill between them.

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Matt Cardle Too Nervous To Bed Rihanna

Matt Cardle has revealed that he would be too nervous to sleep with his X Factor duet partner Rihanna.

Cardle admitted to The Sun newspaper that he would need take Viagra to spend a night of passion with the Bajan star.

"You'd have to do a 'bluey' with her. It's one of those situations you think, 'I'm not risking it'. With really good-looking girls, the pressure's on."

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Matt Cardle: 'Ex-Girlfriend Is A D***

Matt Cardle has spoken out about his ex-girfriend Laura Cutmore, who sold her story to the media during The X Factor competition.

In an interview with MTV, Cardle said, "I could have played it completely differently and never spoke to another girl throughout X Factor. My ex-girlfriend didn't help, selling her story and telling the world what I'm like."

He added: "I just think she's a d**khead, I mean why bother? She's just money grabbing. I've had a few ex-girlfriends and some for longer than that and they haven't f**king said anything. She's a d**k."

Cardle also revealed how excited and nervous he was about dueting with Bajan beauty Rihanna.

"I was actually thinking just don't get an erection. I had very thin, very soft trousers on and I was like 'please, please, please'. I was thinking 'Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher', he joked.

"There was no a chance in hell that was going to happen to me at that stage though. I was just too nervous. [The duets] are just so weird and different. You can't prepare yourself for it and Rihanna got awfully close."

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Matt Cardle's Releases Book

X Factor winner Matt Cardle will launch his official book on Monday. The singer will be holding a signing at Waterstones in London at 10am on the day of its release.

The book tells the X Factor winner's story up to his victory on the ITV show last weekend.

The first 500 fans to arrive at the Piccadilly store will be given a wristband for access to the signing.

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Matt Cardle To Play At Free Gig


X Factor champion Matt Cardle will play a free gig at HMV's Bayswater store today.

The singer will be signing copies and performing his solo debut 'When We Collide'.

The performance will kick off at 5pm to the public, but only a limited number of fans can meet him at the signing.

400 wristbands will be handed out at HMV Bayswater in Whiteleys Shopping Centre from 8am today on a first-come, first-served basis.

Good Luck!

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Matt Cardle Wants Success In America


The X Factor winner Matt Cardle has already got his eye on cracking America.

The former painter revealed that it would be his of his dream to launch a career Stateside after becoming a success in the UK.

Cardle told Metro newspaper, "I'd love to go to America and I'd jump at the opportunity to do that. Everyone's big dream is cracking America.

"James Blunt did it, Leona did it, and to be in that company would be the next dream."

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Matt Cardle Opens Up About Cancer Battle


X Factor winner Matt Cardle has revealed he was diagnosed with cancer as a baby.

In October, Cardle's mother first revealed the singer's battle an aggressive Wilms' tumour when he was 2-years-old. Cardle discusses the illness in his new book My Story, which is being serialised in The Sun newspaper.

"I was a healthy baby, but when I was 18 months old my parents discovered I had a rare form of cancer called Wilms' tumour," he said. "I had a rash on my foot and my mum, being a bit neurotic at the time, took me to hospital.

"They did some tests and found I had a tumour on my kidney, which was pretty savage."

He continued: "I had to have chemotherapy and all of my hair fell out. I then got something called adhesions, which is where scar tissue kind of messes up your insides.

"That ended up being more dangerous than the actual cancer, because I got blood poisoning, and I spent a lot of time in hospital."

"I was there for about a year in all and it must have been horrendous for them," he said. "Luckily, I made a full recovery and I've been fine ever since. In fact, if you have a kidney taken out at such a young age, the other grows to compensate so you get one really powerful kidney."

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Matt Cardle Demands Input In Debut Release

X Factor winner Matt Cardle has insisted that he will not be "steamrolled" into recording an album he is not happy with.

The Essex singer will start recording his first album next year.

Cardle told the Daily Star newspaper that he wants to have an input in his debut release.

"I'm absolutely not going to be steamrolled. I won't sing or record anything I don't have faith in. I'm a bit of a control freak when it comes to certain things.

"It's an awkward situation to be in really."

He continued: "I've written all my music up to this point and to suddenly have that control taken away. I have so many ideas and I'm focused on what I want a song to sound like.”

Cardle revealed that he wants to repeat the success of 2006 winner Leona Lewis and is aware of the stigma attached to winning the show.

"If every time The X Factor was on you came out with someone like Leona Lewis then people would feel differently about the show. But it ain’t going to happen every time. I want to be one of the ones who comes out and is on top of things like Leona."

"It's a team effort, everything has to work well together to move forward in the right direction," he added. "It all starts with the song. I keep saying it but you have to have a great song."

Cardle is already at the number one spot on iTunes with his single 'When We Collide'.

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X-Factor Romance

Livepudlian Rebecca Ferguson has not only won the hearts of the nation but also her fellow male contestants. Possibly soon to be ex-painter Matt Cardle has a crush on the beauty claimed a source.

"Behind the scenes everyone has spotted that Matt has a crush on Rebecca. He loves her genuinely sweet nature and has been supporting her through the live shows," an insider said.

Ferguson has allegedly received romantic attention from Wagner Carrilho and One Direction's Harry Styles.