Singer Alexandra Burke today rang her mother Karine Atay on Monday to tell her the news.

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Alexandra Burke, the Freemasons and Fatboy Slim will headline the festival in the park.

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Rowland was absent from this weekend's shows due to illness, and replaced by former X Factor winner Alexandra Burke.

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Last year's X Factor winner Alexandra Burke also performed on the same show.

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Organisers previously announced 2008 X Factor winner Alexandra Burke as the headline act for the event at Dock Park on 15 September.

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X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke had also been due to play but had to cancel because of "technical and production issues" on the site, her PR representative said.

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Fight For This Love sold more copies on its first day than Alexandra Burke's single Bad Boys - the current UK number one - did on its first day last week.

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For anyone who has managed to avoid a television, newspaper, billboard, radio show or conversation for the last four months, the X Factor is one of the biggest TV shows in the UK. In the past, it has produced huge stars such as Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke.

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