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Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio may be joining Demi Lovato and Simon Cowell at the judges’ table for the upcoming season of The X Factor. Following season two, it was announced that both Britney Spears and L.A. Reid would not be returning to the show, thus leaving two open spots. Could Rowland and Rubio be [...]
FOX announced today that actor and television personality Mario Lopez will return as the host of The X Factor for its third season. “I’m looking forward to returning to The X Factor team,” said Lopez. “We’re coming back stronger and better than ever and I’m excited to check out all the new talent.” “I’m thrilled Mario is [...]
At this point, calling Simon Cowell a marketing genius would be an understatement. The talent guru has once again managed to come up with an innovative way to find the next biggest superstar. Cowell has just announced his brand new global talent competition called The You Generation. The show is based on the premise that YouTube has [...]
X Factor judges Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid have signed season two’s third place finishers, Fifth Harmony, to a record deal on Wednesday. The five members originally auditioned for X Factor separately, but were then put into a group during the show’s boot camp. The group, composed of Ally Brooke, Camila Cabello, Normani Hamilton, Dinah [...]
Britney Spears was given $15 million and a permissive contract on the assumption that she would go off her meds at some point during the X Factor USA live shows and Simon Cowell would get a return on the show’s investment. However, Spears sat in abeyance and when she did speak she had little to say aside [...]
Simon Cowell has been pretty honest about throwing money at Britney Spears in hopes of an X Factor ratings boon. He offered a permissive contract full of caveats pertaining to her mental health care, and her fiance, and breaks, and letting her get away with a lot on the assumption that people would tune in to gawk at [...]
The X Factor USA is well into its live rounds and shedding people each week. Although, one of the hosts is still making more headlines than some of the contestants (not least because her family turns up to tapings to make the episodes all about them, just as anticipated). Since the first live episode, Khloe [...]
This year’s X Factor took a big enough risk casting Britney Spears, whose mental health issues, drug issues, legal issues, and conservatorship, protracted her contract negotiations. The show basically threw money at the 30-year-old, and included several permissive caveats in her contract in addition to paying over-the-odds. They wanted her, badly, even knowing she would [...]
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