Shayne Thomas Ward (born 16 October 1984) is an English singer and actor. He rose to fame as the winner of the second series of The X Factor. His debut single, "That's My Goal", was released in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2005 and reached number one on the UK singles chart and was that year's Christmas number one. It sold 313,000 copies on its first day of sales, making it the third-fastest-selling single of all time in the UK, behind Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" and Will Young's "Evergreen", which sold 685,000 and 400,000 copies in their first days of sale, respectively.
Ward was the first X Factor winner to release an original song as his winner's single. His prize, as winner, was a recording contract with Simon Cowell's Syco record label, which is co-owned by Sony Music. His eponymous debut album was released in April 2006. It debuted at number one on both the Irish and UK Albums Charts, going 4× Platinum in Ireland and Platinum in the UK. It spawned two hit singles: "No Promises" and "Stand by Me". The follow-up album, Breathless, featuring the top 10 hits "If That's OK with You" and "No U Hang Up", was released in November 2007 and topped the Irish charts, where it went 5× Platinum.
In November 2010, after a three-year hiatus, Ward released his third album, Obsession. In contrast to Shayne Ward and Breathless, it underperformed with first-week sales of under 23,000, and missed the top 10 in both the UK and Ireland. In 2011, Ward was dropped by Syco. In 2015, he released a new album Closer as an independent artist, funded through PledgeMusic.
In 2015, he began appearing as Aidan Connor in TV's Coronation Street as a regular character. He made his last appearance in August 2018. He made a voiceover appearance on 22 October 2021.
In 2023, he began appearing in The Good Ship Murder.
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Date: 17 October 1984
By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr
James Clarity
U.S. News & World Report appears to be heading for a period of unaccustomed financial strictures. At his first staff meeting on Monday, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the magazine's new owner, told editors and writers, ''We are committed to rapid improvement on the business side,'' and suggested that employees would be subject to new individual scrutiny.
Date: 16 October 1984
By Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Smith
CBS News will give Phyllis George, the CBS sportscaster and former Miss America, a two-week tryout as co-anchor of ''The CBS Morning News,'' beginning on Monday, CBS news officials said yesterday. According to sources at CBS News, if Miss George is comfortable in the role and if she works well with the newscast's staff, she could succeed Diane Sawyer, who left the program in August to join ''60 Minutes,'' CBS's weekly prime-time magazine. ''We are putting Phyllis George on the air because she is well established at CBS and has a variety of skills required for that kind of job, and her availability comes at a time when we need someone to do the broadcast,'' said Ed Joyce, president of CBS News. Miss George currently appears on the CBS Sports broadcast, ''NFL Today.''
Date: 17 October 1984
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
For many among South Africa's black majority, Bishop Desmond Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, is a voice full of passion for change in this divided land, a man whose humor turns quickly to a sonorous invocation of ''liberation.'' Diminutive in stature, but not in other ways, sharp-eyed and outspoken, the 53-year-old cleric, that is to say, is a man with a message that is yearned for. To the authorities, however, such talk falls little short of subversion, a challenge perceived as part of a ''total onslaught'' from within and without on ''white'' South Africa and a voice that is to be stifled. His organization, the South African Council of Churches, of which he is General Secretary, has been scrutinized by three official judicial inquiries. His passport has been repeatedly withdrawn.
Date: 16 October 1984
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
A number of nonprofit organizations are now offering legal and financial support to people who believe their reputations have been unfairly damaged, adding to the financial and editorial pressure on the nation's press from the increase in multimillion-dollar libel suits by public officials. Such officials have generally shied away from libel actions since a 1964 ruling by the Supreme Court making it much more difficult for them to recover damages for injury to their reputations. But Henry R. Kaufman of the Libel Defense Resource Center, which monitors actions against the press, says officials seem to be increasingly willing to tackle the legal challenge and expense, armed with new resources. For example, the Capital Legal Foundation, a public-interest law firm, expects to spend $2.5 million to represent Gen. William Westmoreland in his $120 million libel action against CBS, according to Dan M. Burt, Capital's president. General Westmoreland contends that he was falsely accused in a 1982 ''CBS Reports'' broadcast of deceiving President Johnson and others about enemy troop strength in the Vietnam War. CBS has not stated its defense costs, but Chad Milton, a libel insurance executive not connected with the case, estimates that the network will spend ''many millions.''
Date: 17 October 1984
By William K. Stevens
William Stevens
The police in Punjab state have issued a warrant for the arrest of an Associated Press reporter because of dispatches he sent from Amritsar about the Indian Army's invasion of the Golden Temple there last June. Victoria Graham, the A.P. bureau chief here, said that the reporter, Brahma Chellaney, a 27- year-old Indian national who has worked for the agency for six years, would surrender soon. The police searched Mr. Chellaney's home on Sunday and visited the A.P. office on Sunday and Monday to look for him, according to Miss Graham, but he was in neither place.
Date: 16 October 1984
By John Vinocur
John Vinocur
A French official said today that the Soviet Union appeared to be trying to intimidate journalists who report from inside Afghanistan through the arrest and probable trial of a reporter for the French state television network. The journalist, Jacques Abouchar, 53 years old, was captured in Afghanistan last month. The French Government has been told that he will probably stand trial in Kabul on charges of ''illegally entering Afghanistan accompanied by an armed band.'' The French official said it was clear that the Russians would seek to ''maximize the benefits coming out of this operation.''
Date: 17 October 1984
The governing Socialist Party expelled a journalist from its ranks this week on charges of breaching party discipline. The journalist, George Massavetas of Eleftherotypia, a pro-Government newspaper, wrote that Vikentios Arsenis, head of the state arms industry, had mishandled a proposal for improving all-terrain vehicles and that the patent was now being used by Israel.
Date: 16 October 1984
By Steven V. Roberts, Special To the New York Times
Steven Roberts
In the late 1960's, the rallying cry for many young Americans was, ''Don't trust anyone over 30.'' In 1984, by contrast, the youth culture appears to put its trust in a President who is over 70. Ronald Reagan, at the age of 73 the oldest President, is more popular with young voters than with any other age group, according to a number of polls. Many disagree with some of his policies, but he is coming across to young people as a firm yet kindly grandfather figure, a leader who inspires confidence in an uncertain world. 61-to-30 Over Mondale According to combined figures from the two most recent New York Times/ CBS News Polls, taken before the Presidential debate on Oct. 7, voters from the ages of 18 to 24 supported Mr. Reagan by 61 percent to 30 percent over his Democratic challenger, Walter F. Mondale. For the rest of the electorate the margin was narrower, 53 to 32. Polls indicated some shift in public opinion after the Presidential and Vice- Presidential debates, but there was no indication of a marked change in the youngest age groups.
Date: 16 October 1984
By Wallace Turner
Wallace Turner
The McClatchy newspaper chain and some of its employees filed suit in Federal District Court in Reno today asking $6 million from Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada in a counterclaim based on the Senator's $250 million libel action against the newspaper chain. The basis of the claim is a charge that Senator Laxalt's suit was filed with the intention of limiting discussion about him, not as a real attempt to gain damages. This is an infringement of the constitutional rights of those the Senator sued, the counterclaim says, asking $1 million actual and $5 million punitive damages.
Date: 16 October 1984
The Philippine armed forces were reorganized today, with 40 senior officers resigning.