Diana Vickers has announced that she will support JLS at a series of their summer tour dates.

Vickers, who recently announced details of her own tour in May, will support JLS at a number of open air concerts throughout July.

The singer also announced that an additional date has been added to her own headline tour in Cardiff, on May 24.

In a message posted today on their official website, JLS said: "Got an early copy of Diana Vickers's new album! We are so proud of her and how well she's done, her album sounds great too, I really like her single 'Once', looking forward to that coming out!"

Speaking of her own tour, Vickers wrote on Twitter earlier this morning: "Liverpool, Oxford, Cambridge, London, Wolverhampton, Norwich, Sheffield, Manchester AND Cardiff ! ah!Thinking about the tour gives me butterflies!"

The JLS support dates are listed below:

* July 15 - Warwick Castle, Warwick
* July 16 - Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
* July 17 - Escot Park, Devon
* July 18 - Sound City Festival, Peterborough
* July 24 - Ynysangharad Memorial Park, Wales
* July 25 - Quex park, Kent

Just a quick update to let you know that Diana will be on GMTV tomorrow, between 6am and 9.25am! It's very unlikely that she'll be on before 7.00am however. She was also on BBC Blue Peter today, and screencaps of the performance will be up A.S.A.P!

Be sure to tune in, also to the 5:19 show on Saturday at 1.05pm, where Diana will be performing her new single Once!

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X Factor's Diana Vickers is among the acts added to this year's V Festival lineup.

The 'Once' singer will be joined at the event by Eels, Gabriella Cilmi, Feeder, Example and Tinie Tempah. Feeder, Hurts, The Saw Doctors and The Magic Numbers will also perform at Hylands Park, Essex and Weston Park, Staffordshire.

Kings of Leon and Kasabian headline this year's event, while Cheryl Cole, Stereophonics, Faithless and The Prodigy have also previously been confirmed for the show.

V Festival, which is completely sold out, takes place on August 21 and 22.

Make sure you head over to Twitter later on today, where Diana Vickers will be taking over MTVUK's Official Twitter page!

Get those questions for Diana ready, send them to @MTVUK and see if Ms. Vickers answers.

Diana will be online from 4.15pm today (Thursday 1st April) @MTVUK. For more info head over to www.mtv.co.uk now.

X Factor star Diana Vickers has claimed that she does not see herself as a "sex symbol".

The pop singer, who is currently promoting her debut solo single 'Once', also said that she was pleased so many of her fans were female.

"What I really like is that girls like me as well as boys. I really like that. I just want to be this northern bird that people warm to," she told The Guardian.

Speaking about her image in her music video, she said: "Well, you've got to be careful. But I've got a really good team, everything came down to how I felt. Like if they said, 'Diana, we want you to wear this dress', and I didn't feel comfortable in it, they'd go, 'Right, we're not having it'.

"You have to be careful, but I mean, it's not bad to be seen as a sex symbol... Maybe not. It's weird. I don't see myself as that."

Vickers's debut LP Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree is released on May 3

According to Popjustice, the second single to be taken from Songs From the Tainted Cherry Tree will be between Notice, The Boy Who Murdered Love & Put It Back Together.

Of course this hasn't been confirmed by Diana's team at all yet, so it's all hearsay for now.

Diana will grace the front cover of teenage magazine Sugar for the first time since leaving the X Factor. The magazine will contain an interview with Diana, as well as some exclusive images from the photoshoot. The issue is available to buy from March 24th, priced at £2.50.

Diana Vickers has revealed that she became ill after leaving The X Factor.

The 'Once' singer, who finished fourth in the 2008 series, explained that she found it difficult to deal with the pressure of the competition.

"When I came out of the show, I was ill," she told the Daily Record. "My whole body collapsed. I was crying every day because I had been through a rollercoaster of emotions.

"I had been on the TV and in the papers every day and had gone back to my mum's cooking and being an average Joe. It was really hard for me to deal with for a while."

She continued: "It was fatigue. I was so tired and I got a really bad throat. My body was done in and I found it really hard to get out of bed. I had been in the X Factor house with these people for nine weeks. I had been performing nearly every day. My body couldn't cope with it and it left me weak."

Vickers added that she would cope better with the competition now as she has more experience.

"At the time, being young, I didn't really know anything about the music industry or people," she said. "I had been brought up in a rosy atmosphere with my friends and it all got a bit crazy.

"Alexandra and JLS had been singing for years. Marvin from JLS already had a record deal and Alex had been gigging and had done The X Factor before. I was new to it all and didn't understand much of it, whereas they were older and knew how to deal with it and compose themselves. They knew who to speak to and what to say."

Vickers releases her debut album Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree on May 3.

The 'Diana Vickers' Tour finally kicked off last night, in Bath! Performing in the 'Moles' venue, Diana showcased some material from her new album Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree.

If you are unlucky enough not to be able to attend the tour, you can check out KDiiz09's youtube channel, here
, big thanks to them for uploading most of the performances!

A number of Diana Vickers fans have urged her record label to radically change the cover of her upcoming debut album.

The first publicised sleeve for Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree featured Vickers in an oversize bow dress with a purple splattered-paint banner and her name in Jamie Reid-style newspaper typeface.

After initial complaints, the cover was tweaked to alter the colour of the banner to cherry red, but fans on her official site have continued to complain about the lack of album name and use of the previously published photograph.

Raffles47 said: "The cover is simply awful - it desperately needs to be changed and quickly!!! Diana deserves better than this - it looks like the dog has had hold of it!"

Forum user Foxello suggested: "Seems that the best thing to do will be try and get the message to Diana herself. RCA won't listen to us, so we need to hope Diana will.

"I can't for one minute believe someone of her flair and passion would permit something as bland and as colourless as this to be the cover for HER album."

However, another web user SarahNugentxx countered: "I actually really like it."