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Leona dreams of Christmas number 1
X Factor winner Leona Lewis looks set to seal a "fairytale" year with a Christmas number one single.

Download copies of her debut track A Moment Like This are being snapped up by fans and are expected to hit the 200,000 mark within 24 hours.

The singing sensation was crowned the first female winner of the ITV1 talent show and has a £1-million record deal prize to look forward to.

Figures show 12.6 million viewers tuned in at 10.20pm to watch the announcement of the winner - 56% of the total TV audience.

One million advance orders of the single have been recorded and 50,000 copies of the download were sold within 30 minutes of going on sale.

The CD version will be available in shops on Wednesday when it is expected thousands of music fans will rush out to buy copies.

Meanwhile, ITV announced it had agreed a new three-year deal with Simon Cowell, whose firm Syco produces the show and who is one of the show's judges, for more series.

Leona said: "I'm just shocked. It's unbelievable. I feel like my dream has come true, the dream I've been dreaming since a little girl has come true.

The 21 year old, from London, who beat rival Ray Quinn, 18, added: "There were points I thought, 'You know what, I don't know if this is going to happen.' But with the help from my friends and my family, they all kept telling me to believe in myself and keep on doing it and I did, and now I'm here and thank you so much to them.

Her parents were ecstatic at her win. Her mother Marie, 42, a social worker, said: "I'm the proudest mum in the world." Father Joe, 46, a youth offending officer, added: "It's unbelievable, a dream come true.


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