Darius Campbell

By Mail Online Reporter Last updated at 1:06 AM on 23rd August 2010 Popstar To Opera Star winner Darius Campbell has revealed he was just three millimetres from death after a horror crash in which he broke his neck. The singer – who first found fame on TV’s Popstars then Pop Idol – declared: ‘I feel like the luckiest man alive.’ Speaking about the accident for the first time, he tells the new edition of Hello! magazine he turned down an operation because he feared it may damage his voice...Read Full Story

Popstar To Operastar winner Darius Campbell has broken his neck in a serious car accident.The singer, who shot to fame on Pop Idol and came 3rd after Gareth Gates and Will Young, was holidaying in Spain when the Porsche he was travelling in skidded and hit a wall.He told the Daily Record: "It was absolutely terrifying. I thought that was going to be it. My life flashed before my eyes and I thought I was going to die."Doctors at the Hospital Costa Del Sol apparently told him that the break in...Read Full Story

It hardly lit the entertainment world on fire, but Popstar To Operastar did manage to attract 4million viewers to it's final between Darius Campbell and Bernie Nolan.The series, which sees establisted pop singers take on opera each week, is now expected to air a second run after ITV's group finance manager Ian Griffiths revealed the news at ITV's Interim Results Meeting earlier this week.The series, hosted by Alan Titchmarsh and Myleene Klass, featured McFly's Danny Jones, former Hearsay...Read Full Story

The Scottish singer/actor, who once landed a lead role in West End's musical 'Chicago', will play a mysterious beastly bodyguard in the reimagination of the classic story.Read Full Story

Darius Campbell has been spotted in public for the first time since breaking his neck in a car crash. While on holiday in Spain, the British singer was travelling in a Porsche when it skidded on a diesel spill and smashed into a wall. The singer was with with two friends and all three managed to walk away from the accident, but Campbell collapsed a short time later. He was later found to have broken the third vertebrae in his neck. His spokesman said to Mail Online: "I'm happy to report that...Read Full Story