The singer has been a judge on the reality competition show for the past two seasons
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X Factor Contestants Get A Re-Do After Voting Glitch
Added pressure was “tough for the contestants” says Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell: The Baby, The Best Night Ever and Why There Are “Too Many” Singing Shows
The singing-show judge dishes about the new season of ‘The X Factor’
Seven Things Adults Can Love About One Direction
One Direction’s sophomore album ‘Take Me Home’ is in stores today. Here’s why the over-18 crowd should be excited
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Still Crazy After All These Years: Simon & Paula's Disjointed X Factor Reunion
It has been too long since I’ve seen Simon Cowell be mean to people on a TV screen. But here he was at the TCA TV critics’ press tour session for The X Factor, appearing via satellite from what looked like a fancy hotel lounge in a geographically nondescript location. His first line, after materializing, supervillain-like, on the giant …
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While I Was Out: The Old Man and the TV
I’m back from a long weekend in Dallas with Tuned In Jr. at the National Elementary Chess Championships. If you ever want to see something truly terrifying, sit in on a room full of hundreds of children at chessboards, staring in murderous silence at something that is not a handheld game system.
I’ve got a fair-sized viewing backlog …
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Chris Isaak for Idol: Wicked Good Idea or Bad, Bad Thing?
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The latest trial balloon launched in the replace-Simon-Cowell sweepstakes: singer-songwriter Chris Isaak. The obvious pluses: Isaak has plenty of recording experience (“Wicked Game,” “Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing”) and experience in front of the camera (his charming Showtime comedy of …
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Should Bret Michaels Take Over for Simon Cowell?
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Of course not. Would he like to? Evidently. Will he? Not if American Idol‘s producers have any sense.
But Joy Behar knows that asking the question will get people to watch her talk show, and I know that embedding the video will get people to visit this post from search engines, and so here it …
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Steve Lillywhite Wants to Be Your Next American Idol (Judge)
Word is out that Howard Stern—who was never, ever, not in a million years going to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol—is not going to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol. You know who else is never, ever, not in a million years going to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol? Perez Hilton, but it gets attention when someone …
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Kill Your Idols: Cowell to Quit AI, Create Rival—for Fox
Fox network made official today what has been buzzed about in TV circles for weeks: that Simon Cowell will leave American Idol after this season to import his singing-talent show X-Factor from Great Britain. Reports from the TCA TV critics’ press tour in Pasadena say Cowell literally just signed his deal with Fox, dramatically, on stage …