Grammy-nominated singer Seal has said that Susan Boyle is the only great talent to have emerged from reality talent shows.
Seal, 46, is currently promoting his new Hits album and he spoke while in LA about shows such as The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent.
He said: “It’s good entertainment, but I question sometimes whether it’s [...]

Singer Lady Gaga reportedly asked for fluffy lambs and butterflies for her upcoming performance on The X Factor after bosses said she could have what she liked.
The 23-year-old star will perform her new single Bad Romance on the hit UK talent show on December 6.
Simon Cowell, 50, liked her idea of the lambs but health [...]

Simon Cowell is reportedly planning to have performances from Sir Paul McCartney and George Michael in The X Factor final.
The 50-year-old music boss is also in talks with British band Coldplay about making an appearance on the upcoming final to complete the star-studded line-up.
It is claimed that he wants to make the final the biggest [...]

Diva Whitney Houston was reportedly not ‘very happy’ that an X Factor contestant was singing one of her unreleased tracks.
The 46-year-old star mentored some of The X Factor contestants before singing on the show.
One of the finalists, Danyl Johnson, 27, said Houston wasn’t impressed he sang her track I Didn’t Know My Own Strength, which [...]

X Factor boss Simon Cowell is said to earn £125,000 an hour despite the fact he has the ‘attention span of a gnat’.
The 50-year-old music mogul can’t concentrate on anything for too long, but is a great businessman, according to one of his oldest friends.
Mark Hoffman, 36, a property developer who runs Commercial Property Investments [...]

Simon Cowell has reportedly picked Miley Cyrus’s single The Climb as the X Factor winner’s track.
The 50-year-old judge and mentor is said to have gone for the Disney star’s song as he is aiming the single at the teenage market.
It is claimed that he is sure Joe McElderry, 18, will win the show.
According to UK [...]

Simon Cowell had hoped for Michael Jackson to put in an appearance on The X Factor this year before his death.
The 50-year-old King of Pop died suddenly in June from a heart attack, and it was hoped that he would have performed on the UK talent show.
The four remaining acts will be performing Jacko tracks [...]

X Factor boss Simon Cowell is reportedly planning to take the show to Las Vegas as he tries to make it the world’s biggest spectacle.
The 50-year-old music mogul will team up with pal and Topshop boss Sir Philip Green to put on two shows a week, it is claimed.
While being interviewed with Cowell, Sir Philip [...]

X Factor judge Dannii Minogue has said she is ‘not friends’ with Cheryl Cole and they are just ‘colleagues’.
Minogue, 38, is a judge on the hit UK show alongside Simon Cowell, 50, Louis Walsh, 57, and Cole, 26.
There have been constant rumours that the two girls do not get on outside of the show and [...]

Rapper Eminem is to become an X Factor judge after Simon Cowell offered him a job, according to reports.
The 37-year-old recently revealed that he was keen to join the show to look for a new rap star and it is claimed Cowell, 50, has since offered him a job.
Cowell said: “It would be great to [...]