Hey everyone, so according to a music blog/ music review site (Destroy The Disco) Glassheart has been moved up and will NOT be released in November. (This has been mentioned by several other sites too). Also the music blog tweeted that the single will be here sooner than we think. This comes as no surprise and is a good sign since more than this site have reported a forward push of the album. SYCO are still keeping the new project under lock and the site says they will bring forth more news as soon as they are allowed to. Keep in mind that this is not confirmed but is likely! When a fan tweeted:

LeonaNews: @destroythedisco Has it been brought forward? How do you know?

The website responded with:

DestroyTheDisco: @LeonaNews It has! We’ll reveal more on that when we can. Single is coming sooner than you may think.

Today Leona continued filming with Plan B and Labrinth. We aren’t positive what the filming was for, it was either for Radio 1′s Hackney Weekend because both Leona and Plan B are ambassadors or it was for their new BBC program about mentoring youth. Most likely it was for their new BBC program. Either way it’s exciting! Labrinth tweeted:

@Labrinthda1st: Off to go hang out with @4PlanB and @leonalewis

Please note that @LeonaLewis is NOT Leona’s twitter, her username is @LeonaLewisMusic which was later corrected when a fan tweeted it to Labrinth and Labrinth tweeted it again. Leona later responded with:

@Labrinthda1st lovely seeing u as always x

This year as many of you know we lost a legend, Whitney Houston. A very popular US music channel is preparing a huge tribute to Whitney at the end of this year. None of the performers have even been announced but, The Lava Lizard has now started a poll on who you would like to see perform. You can vote as many times as you want. VH1 could very well see this poll and get Leona to perform, we all know how well Leona performs a Whitney Houston song! Vote here!

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Leona Lewis has revealed she has been dishing out advice to One Direction.

The 27-year-old, who was speaking at the launch of the Radio1 and 1Xtra Academy earlier this week, told the Daily Record that she has taken her fellow talent show stars under her wing:

“They’re having a lot of fun. I give them a little bit of advice sometimes. I tell them to enjoy it.

However, the ‘Bleeding Love’ star ruled out any romantic involvement following Liam Payne’s admission that he had a crush on her, adding: “He’s sweet. But they’re, like, two.” (Could be edited)

The 2006 X-Factor winner, who recently expressed her fears over the rise of young gangs, also stated that her relationship with Simon Cowell has always been strictly platonic following revelations about his private life in Tom Bower’s recent biography.

She said: “He was never flirty with me at all. He was more like an uncle.”

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Leona Lewis has said that her homecoming set at this year’s Radio 1 Hackney Weekend is a “huge deal”.

The 2006 X Factor UK winner opens the event, which takes place on June 23 and 24 on Hackney Marshes and is headlined by Jay-Z and Rihanna.

“I’ve not really done a gig as big as this,” Lewis told Metro. “It’s a huge deal for me. A lot of friends and family can come and see it.”

Asked about the possibility of collaborating with second-day headliner Rihanna, she added: “We’d have to vibe it and see where it goes and if we’d both be up for it – she’s an amazing artist.”

Of taking part in the BBC Radio 1 and Radio 1 Xtra Academy to inspire young people, Lewis said: “This will affect the young people. For some, the outlook is not the best.

“Hopefully, people will be part of the Academy or see something inspiring at the show.”

The Academy runs from June 1 to June 22 and will feature input from Labrinth, Dizzee Rascal, Rizzle Kicks, Paloma Faith, Riz Ahmed, Levi Roots, Trevor Nelson and others.

Lewis also told the Evening Standard of the Academy: “I am from Hackney and grew up here and wanted to be involved and give back to the community.

“Everything boils down to money – there is not enough money for education or community groups.

“A lot of important groups are being shut down. This is to give young people an opportunity, to show them that people care and they are not going to be left behind.”

Fellow ambassador Plan B added: “As a kid growing up in east London, I felt ignored, I felt I didn’t have a voice. These kids are getting no love. Money is an issue, but it’s also about spending time with them.

“The education they are getting is s**t. Life is not just about academics. They are not taught enough about real life – about things like sex and drugs.”

He continued: “We need to encourage them that there is another way by getting them to express themselves and discover their true talents.

“That’s what they need. I can see that they don’t know the hard work that goes into it. None of this [success] was given to us.”

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A few hours ago Leona tweeted a shocking tweet! She tweeted:

Back to black http://instagr.am/p/KgHGiJO24M/

So yes, Leona has gone to black hair and she looks as beautiful and radiant as ever. I really hope we can get some photoshoots with her black hair, she looks outstanding!

Trevor Nelson, Leona Lewis and Plan B prepare to give something back

Bringing Rihanna and Jay-Z to Hackney Marshes for a free concert in June is not enough, declares Ben Cooper.

Just as important, insists the controller of Radio 1 and 1Xtra, is the stations’ Academy, which aims to empower 10,000 young locals in the weeks before the Hackney Weekend.

A programme of masterclasses, Q&As and panel sessions featuring leading figures in a range of creative fields was unveiled today, with the ambition to both inspire and offer practical advice to some of the capital’s hardest to reach youngsters.

‘We want to take all those football posts out and create some magic,’ says Cooper of the Cultural Olympiad highlight, which will see some of the biggest names in music perform at a live festival in the shadow of the Olympic park.

‘But I don’t want us to be a spaceship from Planet Showbiz. It has to be more than that. That’s about the three weeks preceding Hackney… it’s about the Academy.’
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I don’t want us to be a spaceship from Planet Showbiz. It has to be more than that.”

Ben Cooper Controller, Radio 1 & 1Xtra

The stations’ biggest ever social action and outreach programme will invite Hackney’s 16-19 year-olds to quiz the likes of Dizzee Rascal about how he made his mark in the music industry, Paloma Faith about fashion, Levi Roots about business and Bafta winning Adam Deacon about his burgeoning film career.

But it will also offer hands-on opportunities, whether workshops on scriptwriting for EastEnders, developing an app or designing a t-shirt or sessions on stand-up comedy, pitching for investment or getting published.

‘That’s the point of the Academy,’ says Piers Bradford, commissioning editor for Radio 1 and 1Xtra, ‘you get the star, but you also get the manager, producer, scriptwriter… We want to show that there are loads of different connected careers.’
First steps

The programme was developed after many months of talking to schools, colleges, youth organisations, the council and focus groups. ‘It’s not some crazy BBC plan,’ says Bradford. ‘It came from lots of time spent doing insight work – getting out and about speaking to young people.

‘We discovered that they are massively ambitious and driven – but that they want to know how to take that first step.’

Bradford accepts that the networks are ‘superserving’ Hackney. ‘It feels right to do something special for the local area in the run up to the Olympic Games,’ he tells Ariel, ‘but I hope the message will become more universal.’

Radio 1 and 1Xtra will duly broadcast a range of shows live from the Hackney Picturehouse, where the Academy will be based from June 1-22, while some of the work created by the young people will be showcased during the Hackney Weekend.

Videos and information – Ozwald Boateng’s top tips on taking a first step into fashion, say, or Jamal Edwards’ pointers on setting up a YouTube channel – will be posted online.
Back to school

A BBC Three documentary, meanwhile, will see Leona Lewis, Plan B (both Hackney Weekend ambassadors) together with Labrinth return to their inner London schools.

Plan B, who goes back to the Pupil Referral Unit in Newham he attended as a teenager, will work with some of the 13-15 year olds towards a musical performance at the Hackney Weekend.

The rapper/soul singer considers his involvement as a way of giving something back.

‘It fills me with so much purpose going back to that school,’ he says. Having previously felt ‘ignored, like he didn’t have a voice’, he found direction at the unit.

‘I met a lot of positive people in that school; I might have been doing something more negative if it hadn’t been for them. So if me and Leona can spend half an hour with these kids, it could shape their whole lives.’

It’s about providing positive adult influences, he adds.
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‘You’re not going to help by buying them a pair of trainers or a tv – it’s about spending time with them.’

Others who have signed up to give their time to the Academy – which will be funded by the BBC and run in collaboration with partners like the Hackney Empire and Rising Tide – include Lethal B, Rizzle Kicks, Fearne Cotton, Ashley Walters, Riz Ahmed, Gemma Cairney and Trevor Nelson.
Work ethic

1Xtra’s Nelson hopes it will open the young people’s eyes to careers they may not have considered.

‘I didn’t have a clue what I wanted to do,’ he admits. ‘We want to show them that there are ten people who work behind the DJs – producers, researchers, engineers… They’ve got to come to the Academy and be open minded.’

At the same time, the youngsters need to be aware of the hard work that often goes hand in hand with creative success.

‘Life is accelerated for a lot of young people,’ believes Nelson. ‘They want it now… but the work ethic is massive and the kids really miss that part.’

Not that it should deter them from following their dreams, he continues.

‘It’s so much easier to work hard when it’s something you really like doing. Then you find it easy to pour your heart and soul in. Then it makes it easier to get up in the morning.’