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Frankie Cocozza Backed By Gary Barlow To Win Big Brother

Frankie Cocozza is the bookies’ favourite to win Celebrity Big Brother tonight and despite having let Gary Barlow down with his wild antics on X Factor, he appears to have regained his former mentor’s support. Earlier on today, Barlow Tweeted a message to his disgraced protege that read “Come on FrankieCocozza I hope you win mate.” Although some of the housemates have found his behaviour irritating (notably the Playboy twins, one of whom accused him of ’sexual harrassment’), he won many viewers over after ‘Bumgate’, when he stood up for Denise Welch during a house argument.

Frankie Cocozza was notorious for his partying and raucous ways when he was on X Factor. He was an obvious disappointment to Gary Barlow, who had mentored him and encouraged him. Even Gary Barlow had to admit defeat though, when Frankie was axed from the show after he ‘broke the show’s rules.’ The exact nature of his offence was unclear, though it was rumoured to have been drug-related. Despite mostly living up to his laddish image whilst in the house, Frankie has shown signs of maturity, defending a fellow housemate whom he felt was being unfairly treated (Denise Welch).

According to the Daily Mail, the Playboy twins are expected to be leaving the house first tonight, despite thinking that they have a good chance of winning the show. Frankie is favourite to win, with Gareth Thomas second and Denise Welch no doubt confounding some of her housemates’ opinions of her, in third place.

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February 11th, 2012 | Comments Off

By Helene Fouquet

Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) — Francois Hollande, who’s ahead in the polls just three months before France’s next presidential election Culotte, said France needs a tougher industrial policy and that companies need to be accountable to the state.

“Industrial policy suggests there is a power relationship between the state and industry,” Hollande said today at a Mittal SA steel plant in Gandrange Sweaters, eastern France. “That doesn’t necessarily mean conflict but it measn a contract to be honored, obligations to be kept.”

Hollande was speaking at a site where Mittal shut a steel plant that President Nicolas Sarkozy has visited three times since being elected in 2007.

To contact the reporter on this story: Helene Fouquet in Paris at hfouquet1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Deen at markdeen@bloomberg.net

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