WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
JUST HOW LONG WAS THEIR 15 MINUTES..
POP IDOL
WINNER: WILL YOUNG
WITH two Brit awards, two sell-out tours and three top-selling albums, 27-year-old Will (above) is the most successful artist of all the musical reality TV shows. He beat Gareth Gates and the other finalists to win the first Pop Idol.
GARETH GATES THE Pop Idol runner-up sold three million singles before Sony BMG dumped him. Now with Meridien Musik, the 22-year-old's "working on new material".
DARIUS DANESH HIS debut single hit number one and his album went platinum. The 26-year-old has also played Billy Flynn in the West End's Chicago.
ZOE BIRKETT ZOE'S debut single Treat Me Like a Lady flopped and she was dumped her record label. The 21-year-old starred in panto at Darlington Civic Theatre last year.
ROSIE RIBBONS THE Welsh lass, 23, went on to support Blue and Liberty X on tour. But after her first two singles flopped, she was dropped by Telstar.
AARON BAYLEY DUBBED the People's Champion, Geordie train driver Aaron, 30, now has his own band and record label. He's also proud dad to son Presley.
HAYLEY EVETTS PLAYED Sandra Dee in the West End's Grease and the 30-year-old went on to be a host of the ITV2 spin-off for Popstars: The Rivals.
JESSICA GARLICK THE 25-year-old came third representing the UK at Eurovision 2002, is releasing a single next year and will be at Wembley's Girl Guides' Big Gig next month.
LAURA DOHERTY HAVING graduated from the Magee Centre for Creative and Performing Arts, the 24-year-old has apppeared in sofa adverts.
RIK WALLER RIK'S Mighty Soul Band played the summer season at Butlin's. Which is more success than the 32-stone lad had on Celebrity Fit Club - where he was booted off.
KORBEN REAL name Chris Niblett, Korben, 26 - a former contestant on Mr Gay UK - went on to TV presenting on a shopping channel.
POP IDOL 2
WINNER: MICHELLE McMANUS
THE 26-year-old's debut single went to No.1 but her second only got to 16.
She then did a You Are What You Eat special and has since lost eight stone.
Michelle has appeared on ITV1's Loose Women, presents a Scottish radio show and plans to release a single and album before Xmas.
MARK RHODES THE 24-year-old has formed a hit TV team with Sam Nixon. At one time, he'd been set to wed Pop Idol 1 's Zoe Birkett.
CHRIS HIDE THE vicar lives on... with a raunchy(ish) new image. Chris, 21, gigs up and down the country (albeit at small venues and under-18s nights).
MARC DILLON PRIOR to the show, he spent a year in jail for theft and assault. The Scot, 26, now lives in Essex, does panto and sings in clubs.
SUSANNE MANNING THE committed Christian, 24, wed rocker Andrew Courtney and took her husband's surname. She co-hosts Radio Berkshire's breakfast show.
SAM NIXON AFTER Sam, 20, had a No.1 with Mark Rhodes, the pair went on to be groomed as the new Ant & Dec by the BBC.
BRIAN ORMOND THE blond Irishman, 27, has done panto and now fronts Saturday morning Irish kids' TV show Sattitude. He dotes on his six-year-old daughter, Chloe.
KIM GEE THE plump mum-of-three, 26, was never really a contender. She returned home to Grimsby and now presents her own show on local radio station Compass FM.
ANDY SCOTT-LEE REALITY TV regular Andy, 26, is taking part in Sky One's The Match and is due to marry Michelle Heaton next month.
ROXANNE COOPER THE Hull teenager, 19, finished a creditable sixth place. But a rumoured part in Coronation Street never materialised...
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