Leona: Whitney comparison 'big compliment' (VIDEO)

Leona: Whitney comparison 'big compliment' (VIDEO)
Leona: Whitney comparison 'big compliment' (VIDEO) (Image credit: PA Wire/PA Photos)

The X Factor winner Leona Lewis has apparently told how she's been flattered by comparisons to Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. "To be compared to Whitney or Mariah is a very big compliment, although I think I have a lot of hard work to do before I have the right to be compared to artists like those in my opinion," Leona told Access Hollywood. "They're just incredible and have such amazing success and long careers and I admire them." Leona - whose single Bleeding Love has topped the US chart this week - also admitted to being a little starstruck when she recently met Whitney at a pre-Grammy awards show party. "We got introduced to each other and she was just so lovely - how I imagined her to be," she said. "I used to listen to her so much when I was younger, so to meet her and for her to be so wonderful and so amazing is a very big thing for me." Click below to watch Leona sing Bleeding Love on Swiss TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za1hOh7SsR4&hl=en

The What's on TV team brings you everything you need to know about the world of TV. We have all the information on what is happening in the soaps, what you can't afford to miss on television and which new shows and series are launching. Our handy guides, to all the latest TV shows, bring you everything you need to know about new launches, returning series and must-see events so that you don't miss a thing..