Posts Tagged ‘simon cowell’

Melanie Amaro has “The X Factor”

The 19-year old diva from Florida overcame the powers of 30-year old Ohio singer Josh Krajcik of Wooster, Ohio. She emerged as the victor of the fox talent show last Thursday, winning for herself the $5 million dollar contract and a starring role in an upcoming Pepsi Commercial.
And eventhough she belted out a powerful “Listen” [...]

Shocker! Jai McDowall steals Britain’s Got Talent Crown

Well, not literally.
But you can say that after he trumped out fan favorite, 12-year-old Ronan Parke from being the winner of the reality show.

With his marvelous rendition of a Josh Groban song, ‘To Where You Are,’ he was able to overcome critics and even the judges with his come from behind victory. The [...]

Cheryl Cole will rejoin the X Factor as judge

After being dumped by the management of the American the X Factor, Cheryl Cole felt so bad that she dumped the X Factor UK when they proposed to bring her back.

But it appears that Simon Cowell will not let this go easily.
Being the friend who encouraged Cheryl Cole to try her luck [...]

Cheryl Cole fired from US X Factor

Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole (now, Cheryl Tweedy) has been let go from her judging stint in the US version of the popular reality show The X Factor.

This was supposedly Cheryl’s big break to make a name for herself that side of the world. However, fans didn’t warm up to the adorable [...]

Cowell planned on extending Dannii’s contract on X Factor

Simon Cowell would have loved to keep Dannii Minogue on as a judge on The X Factor.
Public Relations guy Max Clifford, Cowell was adamant to keep Kylie’s sister to return to the show after her choice, Matt Cardle bagged the crown last season. He knew how popular the [...]

Simon Cowell quits as the X Factor judge

Music mogul Simon Cowell will no longer be abandoning his role as the lead judge in popular UK series, the X Factor, according to ITVI boss Peter Finchman

The decision to exclude the feisty gentleman in the judging lineup was due to frequent conflicts with his role in the US version of the reality contest. Cowell, [...]

The X Factor still has it - wins National Television Awards

The UK version of The X Factor won the coveted Best Talent show category in this year’s National Television Awards. The highly rated show easily beat out other favorites for this category: Britain’s Got Talent, Dancing on Ice and Strictly Come Dancing.
Simon Cowell’s production has always garnered high viewer [...]

Will Rihanna judge X-Factor US?

The native of Barbados who is currently in everyone’s iPod Playlist, is also trying to find her way into everyone’s TiVo.

The rumor mill is abuzz with the possibility that Rihanna will be one of the Judges in the new The X Factor US which will be launched next year.
The news was ignited when the 23-year [...]

Cowell mad at Reed for Susan Boyle rejection

Simon Cowell protects his own. The extremely influential music producer is mad at ex-Velvet Underground frontman for not disapproving Susan Boyle’s attempt to cover his song, Perfect Day.

The feisty music mogul is branding the move pathetic and is demanding the singer to change his mind to make up for the disappointed Susan Boyle.
The Irish Spinster, [...]

Simon Cowell thought Cheryl was hungover- not sick

All the world was thankful when UK’s sweetheart, Cheryl Tweedy recovered from Malaria after being critically ill. But her X Factor superior, Simon Cowell, initially thought the superstar was just heavily hungover after coming home from her birthday bash in Africa.
He told the Sun: ”We didn’t know what was going on. I remember saying funnily enough [...]