This is from the X-Factor website:

With less than 24 hours until the first live show of the series, we thought excitement levels were close to peaking – after all we already have last year’s X Factor queen Alexandra Burke, and pop colossus, Robbie Williams, confirmed as this week’s star guests…

But then we thought, wait a minute, let’s crank it to the next stratosphere, and bring in a name that sits happily alongside the likes of Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, and Michael Jackson in the legends hall of fame… ladies and gentlemen, Whitney Houston is set to perform on The X Factor!

The global superstar is due to perform her new single during next week’s results show, in what will be her first UK television performance in 12 years… and we’re not the only ones who are over the moon with the news.

Whitney says: “I have always loved my UK fans and I’m thrilled to perform for them on The X Factor. I am also a fan of Simon Cowell and I look forward to meeting him – it should be a fun night.”

A fun night doesn’t even come close; it’s going to be amazing, immense, monumental… well, you get the gist.

Be there or be nowhere, next Sunday 18th October Whitney Houston performs on The X Factor… remember the date.