Roberta Howett (born 26 September 1981 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish singer who finished in ninth place in the first UK series of television talent show The X Factor in 2004.

Howett successfully auditioned for the first series of The X Factor in 2004 and made it to "bootcamp", "judges' houses" and the live shows, but was eliminated on the first live show.

The X Factor Performances

After years of writing and recording, Howett was finally ready to release her debut material in the UK & Ireland, although she stated she would mainly promote it in Ireland. She announced on Irish Radio that she would release three singles in Ireland, before finally releasing her debut album.

On Friday 26 February 2010, her debut single titled Beautiful Lies was finally released in Ireland. On Thursday 4 March 2010, Beautiful Lies became Howett's first Top 40 single debuting at Number #23 in the Irish Singles Chart.

In July 2011, Howett appeared as a backing singer for Niall Breslin.

John Howett was the President of Toyota Motorsport, and the Toyota F1 team.

Howett (British) joined Toyota in the late 1970s as a team coordinator for Brussels-based Toyota Team Europe, run by former Toyota F1 boss Ove Andersson. Moving back to England in 1980, he worked for Toyota in after-sales service. In 1991, he returned to Belgium, and worked his way up to be Vice President for Toyota/Lexus sales and marketing.

In early 2003, Howett moved to Cologne, Germany, where he was made made President of Toyota Motorsport, a position he has maintained until June 2010.

After a start to the 2007 season that saw Toyota maintain 5th in the constructors' standings after the first three races, Howett said the team were looking to chase 3rd placed BMW Sauber and break away from the front of the midfield bunch of teams, which would go a step further to fulfilling their pre-season ambitions.