Music mogul Simon Cowell fought to help his friend Paula Abdul keep her job as a judge on "The X Factor," but he was overruled by TV executives. Abdul was dropped from the line-up of the reality s...

We spotted Jennifer Lopez leaving her Manhattan hotel yesterday. The singer/actress waved to fans as she left wearing blue and red checkered pants, a plaid scarf and fur stole.

The contestants aren't the only ones getting booted off The X Factor: Judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger have been shown the door, according to EW.com.

Simon Cowell spend his Christmas jet skiing in Barbados. The star of hit show The X Factor took a much needed break after the show's season finale last week and was spotted on Christmas Eve on the...

Ordinarily I give shows like this the full mega-diary treatment, but ‘X Factor’ doesn’t seem worthy.

There have been a lot of stupid ideas on TV: AfterMASH, giving Christopher Moynihan a second series, that dancing show where Paula Abdul stood on a huge globe, but last night may have been the bigg...

Nicole Scherzinger stood out at "The X Factor" Press Conference in Los Angeles yesterday in a tight dress that showed off her ample curves. Fellow judge Paula Abdul went a more conservative route i...

There are so many things I could write about last night’s results show. I could write about the super-awkward group number. I could write about the Youtube clips of the contestants’ families (serio...

In honor of last night’s Pepsi Challenge audience song selection, I’m letting my readers write the opening to this week’s column.

During my typical fast-forwarding through of the recaps of the previous week’s show and whatever pre-packaged piece of nonsense they force us to watch to get to “know” the contestants better, I beg...

In honor of ‘The X Factor’ truncating all the contestants’ performance in order to cram all ten of them into 90 minutes so there’s enough time for ‘I Hate My Teenage Daughter’, I’m going to truncat...

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the Molly Dewolf Swenson Scale.

I’m back again after a week off for Thanksgiving this time. Curse you, Turkey and your insufferable way of making me miss ‘The X Factor’.

Katy Perry, Simon Cowell and Donald Trump are among the Most Fascinating People of 2011, according to revered newscaster and TV personality Barbara Walters. The trio features on her annual list o...

Sometimes I wonder how I’m going to fill even more than a few sentences about the hour-long list reading that is The ‘X Factor’ results show. Am I going to insult the performer? Am I going to remar...

I’m back after a week off for my sister’s wedding, and before we get started I should fill you in on what I thought of last week.

I’m pretty sure this is the first time it’s ever happened. In the too-many years that I’ve been writing about various singing competition shows, I don’t think it’s ever come to pass that the contes...

I’ll level with you; I went to the barber today and asked them to give me ‘The Steve Jones’ and it took them 17 hours to make my hair that lifeless. So I’m a little pressed for time.

Thanksgiving is a few short weeks away, and before you slice into those turkeys, let’s take a look back at the new TV shows that are thriving and those that don’t have a Thanksgiving prayer. We’ll...

With 17 performances last night, ‘The X Factor’ was clearly all about the contestants and the judges, with little time for anything else.

So far, I’ve done my best to keep ‘The X Factor’ and ‘American Idol’ completely separate. However, now that we’ve reached the cut down before the live shows, I’m going to take one element from my ‘...