A newly single Leona Lewis has reportedly called off her upcoming plans to tour in Australia, Asia, and Europe as she is “heartbroken” over her breakup with longtime beau Lou Al-Chamma.

An insider told a British tabloid that the “Bleeding Love” singer will instead head into the studio to put her anguish into a new album.

She was recently spotted heading into the studio with hit-maker Dallas Austin. The two are reportedly collaborating on Lewis’ third studio album, a re-release of “Echo,” which is set for a Christmas release.

“Leona’s heart just wasn’t in the tour towards the end of the U.K. leg,” the source told the Sunday Mirror. “She was upset, teary and heartbroken over her split with Lou. She’d been with him for 10 years.”

Back in June, “The X-Factor” winner and her childhood sweetheart Al-Chamma decided to part ways. The singer’s busy schedule and British tour were rumored to be key factors behind split.

Lewis was set to make her U.S. tour debut this summer as an opening act for Christina Aguilera. But, those plans were also scrapped as Aguilera announced in May that she was postponing her 20-date “Bionic” tour to an unspecified time in 2011.

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Is somebody out to get Leona Lewis?

Just last year, the 25-year-old British “Bleeding Love” singer suffered facial injuries after being headbutted by her horse. Then she was punched in the face by a male fan at her October book signing.

Then last Friday, Lewis plummeted down an elevator shaft while performing in Sheffield, England.

Outrageous as it sounds, a rep at Lewis’s J Records label confirms that the incident did indeed occur during the first night of the star’s UK tour. Lewis later told The Sun newspaper, “We have been having problems with the lift. It had been going fine in rehearsals and then I had a bit of an accident and fell down the lift shaft.”

The problem was that the elevator had gotten stuck, causing the “X-Factor” winner to tumble into an empty hole. “I was lucky not to get injured,” Lewis told The Sun. “Fortunately it happened during a blackout on set and didn’t affect the show and none of the audience saw anything.”

Perhaps she better start keeping an eye out for ACME anvils falling from the sky.

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Leona has generously donated tickets to each concert and date in her upcoming tour, in aid of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). The tour starts in Sheffield on 28 May and ends in Cardiff on 6 July 2010 and plays major venues all over the UK plus in Dublin.

Funds raised by the competition will all go to help WSPA protect animals around the world from cruelty and suffering – something that Leona passionately believes in. More information regarding Leona’s support of WSPA can be found here:

http://wspa.org.uk/latestnews/2009/Leona_Lewis_Animals_Matter_to_me.aspx

To enter, answer a simple question about Leona’s support of WSPA and choose the concert venue and date you would like to win a pair of tickets for.

There is a minimum donation of £2 per entry into the competition and you can enter as many times as you like and for as many different concerts as you want.

The competition can be found here:

https://donate.wspa.org.uk/form.asp?id=1406. The competition closes on May 24. Thank you to Ruth for letting me know about it!

Christina Aguilera will return to the stage this summer, when she kicks off a 20-date North American outing on July 15, tour producer Live Nation announced today (May 10). Leona Lewis, the British pop singer, will also appear on the dates.

Aguilera’s latest album, “Bionic,” her first since 2006′ “Back to Basics,” is due in stores on June 8, and all fans who purchase tickets for the tour before June 4 will receive a download code for a digital copy the album on June 7, the day before its official release.

Tickets for all the dates go on sale to the public beginning May 21 at LiveNation.com, with a preseal for Citibank cardmembers starting May 19. Complete ticket and tour information can be found at ChristinaAguilera.com.

Aguilera recently appeared on the “Oprah” show, and has scheduled a number of television appearances — including live appearances at the MTV Movie Awards and on the Today Show Summer Concert Series — in conjunction with the album’s release.

Recorded in Aguilera’s home studio, “Bionic” features collaborations with Sia, Le Tigre, Christopher “Tricky Stewart,” Hill & Switch and Ladytron, and a ballad entitled “Lift Me Up” written by Linda Perry, who also penned “Back to Basics” singles “Hurt” and “Candyman” and Aguilera’s 2002 hit, “Beautiful.”

Aguilera’s “Back to Basics” album has sold 1,694,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Her 2008-released greatest hits set, “Keeps Getting Better: A Decade of Hits,” has sold 338,000.

Aguilera also recently wrapped filming on “Burlesque,” which co-stars fellow pop diva Cher and is slated for a fall 2010 release.

Here are Christina Aguilera’s North American tour dates:

July 15: Uncasville, CT (Mohegan Sun Arena)
July 17: Darien Center, NY (Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
July 18: Bristow, VA (Jiffy Lube Live)
July 20: Toronto, ON (Molson Canadian Amphitheatre)
July 22: Camden, NJ (Susquehanna Bank Center)
July 24: Detroit, MI (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
July 25: Chicago, IL (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre)
July 28: Wantagh, NY (Nikon at Jones Beach Theater)
July 30: Holmdel, NJ (PNC Bank Arts Center)
July 31: Boston, MA (Comcast Center)
Aug. 3: Pittsburgh, PA (First Niagara Pavilion)
Aug. 5: Atlanta, GA (Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood)
Aug. 7: West Palm Beach, FL (Cruzan Amphitheatre)
Aug. 8: Tampa, FL (Ford Amphitheatre)
Aug. 10: Dallas, TX (Superpages.com Center)
Aug. 12: Houston, TX (Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion)
Aug. 14: Phoenix, AZ (US Airways Center)
Aug. 15: San Diego, CA (Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre)
Aug. 18: Mountain View, CA (Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View)
Aug. 19: Irvine, CA (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)

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BMG Rights Management has signed an exclusive publishing agreement to represent singer Leona Lewis.

Deal covers Lewis’ future songwriting, as well as her songs from her sophomore album “Echo.”

“Leona is a staggering musical talent, going from strength to strength as her songwriting develops. We’re thrilled to be working with her and her management team,” said Tony Moss, Managing Director BMG Rights Management U.K.

Said Lewis, “I’m so pleased to be working with BMG, I’m really excited about working together and the future.”

Lewis gained mainstream recognition after winning the third season of “X Factor” in 2006, after which she was signed to a five-album, $9.7 mil deal with Clive Davis’ J Records.

Her debut single “A Moment Like This” (a cover of the track originally recorded by Kelly Clarkson, which was written by J�rgen Elofsson and John Reid) became the fastest selling U.K. single after being downloaded over 50,000 times within 30 minutes of its release. Her second single, “Bleeding Love”, reached number one positions in over 30 singles charts around the world. Lewis became the first British solo artist to top the Billboard 200 with her debut album “Spirit,” which has sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide.

Lewis’ second album “Echo,” released in November 2009, has gone double platinum in the U.K. The album debuted at number 13 in the U.S. with sales of 68,413, but in the second week sales fell by 68% to just 21,431. Worldwide, it has sold over 1 million copies. The first single from this album, “Happy,” was written by Lewis, together with songwriters Ryan Tedder (who wrote “Bleeding Love”) and Evan Bogart and produced by Tedder.

Lewis also recently recorded “I See You,” the theme song for James Cameron’s “Avatar.” Track was nominated for Best Original Song at the 67th Golden Globe Awards.

Currently, Lewis and her management are preparing for her first world tour scheduled to starting later in the year.

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Kings Of Leon have denied that they are set to record with Leona Lewis, despite some reports alluding to a possible collaboration.

It was claimed that the Followill clan were going to join the former X Factor winner in the studio because they were “big fans” of the singer. It was also claimed that Lewis will be working with Robbie Williams.

However, drummer Nathan Followill has denied the claim.

“Contrary to reports out there Kings Of Leon are not writing or recording with Leona Lewis,” he wrote this afternoon (January 6) on Twitter.

The band are currently taking time off after touring extensively last year.

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The success of Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love” not only made the British-born singer an international star last year — it also helped her branch out and toughen up.

“I’m quite a sensitive person and I’m quite introvert, but I’ve learned that I’m stronger than I thought and I can take more than I thought I can. Sometimes I have to push myself, but like I am definitely stronger than I thought I was,” the 24-year-old says.

Lewis says that newfound strength is all over her sophomore CD, “Echo,” out on Tuesday.

“I think the songs are very epic,” she says of the disc, which features collaborations with Justin Timberlake, Ne-Yo, Max Martin and Ryan Tedder, who produced the first single, “Happy.”

In a recent interview, the singer talked about gaining confidence, her fans and the inspirations behind “Echo.”

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He may be PEOPLE’s reigning Hottest Bachelor, but Chace Crawford doesn’t stand a chance with Leona Lewis.

The singer says she turned down a chance to smooch the Gossip Girl hunk when he appeared in her latest video because she thought it would make her beau, Lou Al-Chamaa, jealous.

“They wanted me and Chace to kiss in the ‘I Will Be’ video. But I said no way,” she tells U.K magazine Sugar.

That doesn’t mean Lewis, whose new album Happy is out Nov. 17, is not an admirer of Crawford – he’s just not her type. “He needs roughing up a bit! He’d be a really pretty girl … He’s so beautiful, I mean, look at him,” she says. “But I just don’t think of him like that. And it wouldn’t be fair to Lou to kiss other guys.”

Lewis, 24, has been with her boyfriend since she was 17, but the two met way before that. She tells the magazine that at age 10, she already thought her neighbor, Al-Chamaa, was “sooo cute.”

She still does. The singer, who recently defended her relationship with the electrician, says she loves his eyes, and teases: “Sometimes I’ll look at him and be like, ‘You have really nice eyelashes, can I put mascara on them?’ ”

Maybe having his girlfriend kiss Crawford wouldn’t be so bad after all.

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British singer Leona Lewis has reacted with dismay to some of the media chatter about the fact that she is still dating the same boyfriend she had before she found fame.

Lewis, 24, has been with electrician Lou Al-Chamaa since she was 17 and calls him her “best friend” in a new interview.

When she was asked about the “snide bewilderment” that accompanies references to their enduring love, she says, “It does make me angry. Because he’s a great person. And it doesn’t matter what you do in life, what your job is, where you come from.”

Speaking to The Observer, she says, “This is real life, it isn’t make believe. For people to think that you should leave someone because, all of a sudden, you’re a singer and you have opportunities. I feel very sorry for them.”

Lewis, who shot to fame on the British talent show The X Factor, still lives in the gritty area of Hackney, east London, where she grew up and says she stays grounded by surrounding herself with people she has known for years.

“All my friends I’ve known since I was really little. It’s not that I don’t let new people in,” she says in the interview, “but I do feel safe with people that really know me, who know who I am.”

Lewis was talking to promote her book Dreams – copies of which she was signing when she was punched by a fan earlier this month. A man has since been charged and will appear in court on Monday.

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