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5 Facts About Pepsi Super Bowl Ad Star Melanie Amaro
Who’s the upstart who belts out a dance-party version of Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” in the new Super Bowl Pepsi ad? It’s The X Factor Melanie Amaro, challenging mean king Elton John for the sweet soda. If this is the first you’ve heard of Melanie, then check out the five facts we’ve compiled on her. More »
Beyoncé Offered Insane Amounts Of Money To Be On The X Factor
You know who doesn’t make enough money? Beyoncé. It’s like someone give this woman a raise already! Luckily, that (brave) someone is Simon Cowell who supposedly stepped forward and offered Bey $500 million dollars to join The X Factor as a judge for the next five years. Just to recap for everyone, that’s 500 followed by six more zeros. More »
Why Was Paula Abdul Fired From The X Factor?
With host Steve Jones and judge Nicole Scherzinger gone already, Simon Cowell only has LA Reid left to fire before he has to fire himself. More »
Simon Cowell Doesn’t Even Know When He’s Rolling His Eyes At People Anymore
It’s an automatic biological function for him at this point, like breathing or digesting his food. More »
Video: Willow Smith Debuts New Single On The X-Factor
Last night on The X-Factor, pint sized pop star and positive thinker Willow Smith debuted a new song called “Fireball” that is all about the degree to which she, Willow Smith, is (you guessed it) a human fireball. More »
Parting Tweet: Singing Competition Shows Depress Thomas Lennon
Here’s the even-more-depressing thing about Thomas Lennon‘s tweet. Thomas (of The State and Reno 911 fame) is 41 years old. A person 15 years younger than him would 26. And 26 is the high end of the age spectrum for people who are cast in singing competitions. More »
Did ‘The X-Factor’ Intentionally Obscure Stacy Francis’ Past Success As A Singer?
The 42-year-old single mother who wowed the judges on The X-Factor last night has actually enjoyed quite a bit of success in the entertainment business already. But her story seems less dramatic that way, so they left that part out. More »
Video: The New X-Factor Promo Will Make You Cry
This eight minute commercial is a regular roller coaster ride of emotions. Emotions and song! More »
The X Factor’s New King
After months of grueling auditions, tempers, tantrums and trial by celebrity jury, The X Factor culminated yesterday to crown 27-year-old Matt Cardle winner of the much coveted prize. More »
Ke$ha: Not a Fan of Nazis – Ke$ha performed on the Australian version of The X Factor last week but nixed the SS-style uniforms of her back-up dancers. Guess that’s more of a Lady Gaga “Alejandro” thing. (RadarOnline)
Sex on the Wire: A Very Brady Abstinence Guide
• The actress who played Jan Brady (Eve Plumb) turned out to be a prude. Who’da thunk? (Nerve)
• Apparently guys use Twitter to read stripper tweets. Well, why else do guys do anything? (The Frisky)
• That chick who got punched by another chick on The X-Factor has some topless photos. You don’t want to see them, we promise. (Buzzfeed)
• Vinny from Jersey Shore used to be not that attractive. Okay, even more “not that attractive.” (The Gloss)
• Katy Perry knows how to sex up a bachelorette party…even after her husband is put in custody for jumping a paparazzo. (Betty Confidential)
• “Overly arousing accent syndrome”: An actual sexual dysfunction for the French. (Lemondrop) More »
My Weird Celebrity Crush: Worshiping at the Alter of Ablisa (The Worst ‘X-Factor’ Contestants Ever)
(Editor’s Note: In case you missed it, The X-Factor saw an amazing boxing match break out between two young Brits — Abbey Johnston and Lisa Parker — during a recent episode. They later made up. Jessica Poolt‘s obsession with the duo has led her to dub them Ablisa)
How do I love thee, Ablisa? Let me count the ways… More »
Bret Michaels Is So Screwed
Bret Michaels can say goodbye to replacing Simon Cowell on American Idol. While chatter has been building that the beloved guylinered rocker – who has demonstrated the right way to launch a career comeback – would sub in for Simon, it now appears Idol producers would rather go with Chris Isaak.
Writes The Hollywood Reporter (via Gawker):
Rocker Bret Michaels was given the once-over and even lobbied for the job last week in an HLN interview (“I would love to do it,… More »
Crushable’s Guide To Pop Culture In Other Countries: ENGLAND
Here at Crushable, we focus mainly on pop culture in America. So we’re interested in finding out what people are into abroad, besides the typical crossover phenomenons (George Clooney, Madonna and Justin Bieber). Our British friend Bryan is not all up in entertainment-y stuff, so he asked his plugged-in sister to weigh in via email. Here’s her verbatim feedback from across the pond:
Celebrities: “Cheryl Cole (most women and men are obsessed with her), Simon Cowell (massively popular, and seems to be… More »
What Do You Think of Simon Cowell’s Favorite First Audition Ever?
Danyl Johnson tried out for The X Factor in London recently and the judges were so impressed with him that Simon Cowell actually said that it was the best first audition he’s ever seen. Of course, I had to find out what all the fuss was about and I have to say that I was impressed. The thing is that Danyl is a good singer but it wasn’t so much about his vocals as it was about his overall performance,… More »
Simon Cowell Feuding with Dannii Minogue?
var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(420,297,251291,”http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css”)}catch(ex){}}() American Idol judge, Simon Cowell, has been having some problems with a co-worker on his British talent show, The X Factor. Apparently, he and Dannii Minogue (the sister of Australian singer, Kylie Minogue) have been feuding for some time which has caused her to worry about her place on the popular show. Fortunately, it looks like her fears were unfounded since Simon has assured her that she will be returning next season. That didn’t stop… More »