Report: Britney Spears Will Be Fired From X Factor Because She’s “Boring”
December 28, 2012 by Hollywoodite
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 from “Amazing.”
Cowell was pretty honest about only hiring Spears in hopes of capturing her breakdown. But he didn’t get one. Nor did he get much of anything for the money.
And now sources are claiming that Spears will be fired for being “boring.”
“Britney will get the boot,” an insider [says] of the pop star, who joined the show in May along with fellow newcomer Demi Lovato. “Producers wanted her for the long haul, but it isn’t working.”
One reason? Spears’ $15 million contract, which sources say the low-energy mentor hasn’t earned. “They paid all that for her to say ‘amazing’ and offer half-claps,” a second insider tells Us.
Adds a third source of show co-creator Simon Cowell, who is leading the charge to axe the performer: “He wanted crazy Britney, but he got boring Britney.”
Spears’ firing would be the latest in a long line of departures over the show’s short lifespan. In the space of just two seasons, the series has lost or let go of Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger, Cheryl Cole and, most recently, L.A. Reid, who announced his decision to leave earlier this month. – via Us Weekly Magazine.