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Post by ManicKangaroo on Jul 18, 2018 2:07:45 GMT 1
Robbie Williams, his wife Ayda Field and One Direction's Louis Tomlinson will join Simon Cowell as judges on this year's X Factor. Amid the show's dwindling ratings Simon promised press that the trio 'are going to bring a whole new energy. I think we’ve got a good chance.' The show's head judge added that he's 'tried to get Robbie on every show we’ve had for 15 years then it happened by accident. We went to my house and chatted on the balcony and did a deal.' As for Robbie's wife Ayda, an actress turned Loose Women panellist, Simon explained that when the US beauty interviewed him in LA, it was 'one of the funniest interviews I’ve ever had.' The new lineup marks the first time in the show's 14 year history that there's been three male judges on the panel, and just one woman. On the ITV show's first series in 2004 there were only three judges - Cowell, Walsh and Osbourne but once the show switched to four judges from the second series onward there has always been two female and two male judges. 'But these two together... Ayda has a passion for people, an optimism. I’ve never felt so excited.' Sharon Osborne is also set to return to the show as a judge when Robbie needs to step away due to touring commitments. He will be touring South America during some of the live shows and Sharon has said she will cover as a judge for the shows he has to miss.
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Post by o on Jul 18, 2018 10:23:53 GMT 1
Oh my giddy aunt, talk about nepotism, and shouldn't Luis Tomlinson be in school, he looks about 14, and Robbie looks like someone who is 55 trying to be 25, and his wife, words just fail me, and people still watch this!
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Post by raliverpool on Jul 18, 2018 11:49:04 GMT 1
Re-imagine this comedy sketch as being between ITV/Syco (shopkeeper) and the Great British Public (customer):
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 18, 2018 14:16:02 GMT 1
So they've had Gary Barlow and now they have Robbie Williams.
who next year? Mark Owen?
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 18, 2018 18:40:44 GMT 1
I thought it was being cancelled? just let it die, its getting painful to watch now
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 18, 2018 21:02:15 GMT 1
I thought it was being cancelled? just let it die, its getting painful to watch now Nobody is forced to watch it
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Post by Smurfie on Jul 18, 2018 21:08:46 GMT 1
What, what, and what? So Simon Cowell and a bunch of chums again. It’s like a bad HR department interviewing someone for a position the recruitment agency forgot to tell them about.
“So, did you get here OK?”
“Yes”
*silence*
*shuffles to All About That Bass and coughs*
“Intriguing - anyone else”
“You can work on that hair clip”
Deary me - even I’m over it. And I watch any old sh*te.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jul 18, 2018 21:09:44 GMT 1
That would be the only way to get there viewing figures back.
I just thought I read it was getting cancelled after viewing figures tanked and ITV bought the voice.
That was the natural point to let it die, when it was on its last legs and replaced. Trying to revive it with these jokers won't work and it will be embarrising wether I watch it or not
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Post by raliverpool on Jul 18, 2018 21:16:18 GMT 1
Reality TV singing talent shows are over.
Hence why last night ITV1's The Voice Kids was beaten by BBC2's The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer in a head to head (no it was not a documentary on Simon Cowell's music & entertainment business).
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 19, 2018 8:36:58 GMT 1
Reality TV singing talent shows are over. NEWSFLASH: Reality TV singing talent shows were over when the singers started getting beaten by performing dogs that needed a stunt double to do the tricks.
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Post by Mic1812 on Jul 20, 2018 20:35:44 GMT 1
Put these words in the correct order
BARREL THE SCRAPING
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jul 20, 2018 21:13:51 GMT 1
Reality TV singing talent shows are over. Hence why last night ITV1's The Voice Kids was beaten by BBC2's The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer in a head to head (no it was not a documentary on Simon Cowell's music & entertainment business). I know right. I've been saying all week that I can't think of anything worse than a show about singing kids!
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Post by -Big Dan- on Dec 2, 2018 22:13:57 GMT 1
I gather the final tonight started with Simon Cowell's son and a bunch of other kids on stage singing 'Baby Shark'.
That is literally all I know about the show this year.
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Post by coolchristie2 on Dec 2, 2018 23:11:18 GMT 1
A total of 1 (now 2) posts in this thread since the show began says it all!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 22:31:48 GMT 1
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 13, 2019 21:09:40 GMT 1
^ Well it is heavily rumoured that ITV have won the bidding war for the UK rights to the top new global singing TV talent show:
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 14, 2019 20:31:08 GMT 1
So the latest is Cowell/Syco have got their lawyers involved to stop ITV ditching X-Factor for The Masked Singer, by offering to have an all-star Celebrity version of X-Factor instead. Which was last done in 2006 The X Factor: Battle of the Stars, who can forget the horrors of that:
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Post by Jordan on Feb 16, 2019 9:36:57 GMT 1
In fairness, there were talks of another celeb version well before the Masked Singer became an option
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 23, 2019 21:34:17 GMT 1
In fairness, there were talks of another celeb version well before the Masked Singer became an option Seeing how The Semi Finals of The Masked Singer became Fox TV's highest rated non NFL game since the 2009 X-Factor Finale; as the ratings for it are rising week, by week, by week in North America where they are now over 50% up on the viewing figures of week 2.
Then ITV will be clinically insane if they go for another series of X-Factor over this.
These are the three finalists:
The Peacock - Let's Go (Calvin Harris ft Ne-Yo)
The Monster - Stay With Me (Sam Smith)
The Bee - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Aretha Franklin/Carole King)
Imagine a British equivalent with a rumoured final of Donny Osmond; T-Pain; & Gladys Knight. After the likes of Rumer Willis; Ricki Lake; Tori Spelling; La Toya Jackson; and a bunch of famous Americans who mean nothing in Blighty have already been KO'd.
Which is why the South Korean owners of the franchise are playing hardball with ITV and threatening to sell it instead to Channel 5 if ITV don't take up their option (so losing an approx £10 million deposit) to put it out in 2019.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Apr 13, 2019 3:05:07 GMT 1
Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda Field will not be on the judging panel for the next X Factor, the star has said.
In a post on Instagram, the former Take That singer said they would still work with Simon Cowell on other projects.
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