This year, the UK version of the X Factor has gone through some serious changes. For starters, there’s no Simon Cowell with his rolling eyes and odd man-baps on the judging panel. Cheryl Cole vanished too, leaving us with Gary Barlow, Tulisa and Kelly Rowland to sit with the increasingly distressing Louis Walsh.
Tulisa, who has been surprisingly likeable in the past, ballsed up her chances of capturing our hearts after showcasing a staggering lack of pop knowledge (not knowing what rock music is and having never heard of the dazzlingly famous ‘Think’ by Aretha Franklin) as well as droning devoid of emotion like a post-match football interview. Don’t start us on her idea that Little Mix are somehow a feminist statement.
That leaves Gary to fulfil the Simon role and Kelly to be the ‘likeable, if slightly insane’ one. And now, it looks like she’s going to ditch the UK for X Factor USA because she obviously can’t be bothered dealing with Tulisa anymore.
Various reports are suggesting that Rowland will be ‘putting it down’ across the pond after Cowell eyed her up to replace Nicole Scherzinger on the X Factor USA judging panel.
Of course, this poses something of a problem for Kelly, inasmuch that her pop career in the States isn’t exactly setting the Billboard on fire and most of her action is happening in Europe.
A source told the Daily Star has said:
“Simon has been blown away by Kelly.
?He's made no secret of the fact he thinks she's the star of the UK show. Simon?s been less impressed with how Nicole is faring in the US.?
It seems that, after the familiarity of years of the same judging panel on X Factor, it now appears that there’s something of a revolving door and Cowell is adopting an approach that basically dispatches those that don’t immediately work.
Just like the auditions in X Factor then, eh?