BRITNEY TO JOIN JUDGES ON X FACTOR

Britney Spears has signed a one-year, $15-million contract to join the judging panel on Simon Cowell’s The X Factor, E! News reported on Wednesday citing an unnamed source close to the star. “The contract is signed,” the source told the entertainment cable/online entertainment outlet. “There’s been a lot of back and forth over the past […]

SIMON COWELL SAYS FOX CANNED X FACTOR STARS

The decision to remove two judges and the host of the U.S. version of The X Factor was made by executives of the Fox network, Simon Cowell, the show’s co-producer and a judge himself on the show, told the syndicated Extra on Tuesday. “It was fairly straight what [the network] wanted, and we were told […]

CHERYL COLE CONFIRMED AS X FACTOR JUDGE

Talk about an “x factor!” British singer Cheryl Cole, a virtual unknown in the U.S., has been confirmed as a judge on Simon Cowell’s U.S. version of The X Factor. Cowell has long made it clear that he wanted Cole, who had appeared as a judge on the U.K. version of X Factor, to join […]

COWELL ENDORSES TWO MORE X FACTOR JUDGES

Although he says he’s still open to other possibilities and deals have not been completed, Simon Cowell has told Deadline.com blogger Nikki Finke that he expects singers Paula Abdul and Cheryl Cole will join producer L.A. Reid and himself on the judging panel of the U.S. version of The X Factor when it debuts in […]