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As we reported yesterday, Steve Jones & Nicole Scherzinger are out along with Paula Abdul so the ‘X Factor USA‘ Simon Cowell camp are already talking Fergie, Mariah Carey and Victoria Beckham, but Ryan Seacrest fever still remains.

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Our FOX people are on the ball with their news which has finally been confirmed by the network, and they pulled a hat trick firing Steve Jones, Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul. If you recall poor Paula was the one who mentioned to Scherzinger about letting a deadlock happen for Cowell’s beloved Rachel Crow, so it wasn’t so hard to let the ax fall on America’s favorite befuddled judge. I will say that Paula actually seemed like a lexicon of brilliance next to Scherzinger.
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As we said last night, Scherzinger is already saying that she need to finish her next album, and the ‘X Factor’ took so much of her beloved time away from that. Now she’s got some time, but she’ll be finishing it up over in London after replacing fellow American ‘X Factor UK’ judge Kelly Rowland, who won’t be coming the the USA version.

Now, our sources at the production are telling us that along with Mariah Carey, Cowell and company are setting up meetings with Fergie and Victoria Beckham. Fergie would replace Abdul, Carey would replace Scherzinger (but a muppet would have sufficed replacing her) and Beckham would replace Jones Welsh accent with her clipped British one. Beckham has always seemed more icy to me and never really landed that well here in the states when she and husband David Beckham landed and expected a queen’s welcome. The closet queen welcoming her she got was a sitdown with Perez Hilton.

Ryan Seacrest is still very much on Cowell’s radar for host, but that’s been kept very very quiet as the Seacrest is cranking out megabuck deal after deal. We’re hearing that Pepsi, who plunked down over $60 million for the ‘X Factor USA‘ is pushing really hard to make that happen. “We all cringed when Victoria Beckham’s name came up,” our FOX source said, “and it feels more like that’s just being floated to push Ryan [Seacrest] closer to a decision.”

Mariah Carey’s husband Nick Cannon keeps trying to quiet the rumors of her coming onboard as judge on ‘X Factor’ by saying that it would be a major step down for her. Oh really, so does that make him less of a person since he’s below the judges on ‘America’s Got Talent’ and is ‘just’ a host. Carey is a great talent, but we all saw what a huge boost ‘American Idol‘ did for Jennifer Lopez, who was slipping really fat, so it could be a very smart move for her. Since Cowell was desperate to get her on the show last season, you know that he’ll be throwing money heavily at her. Sadly, while the show does have some problems, the producers of the show will more than likely focus solely on the judges and host rather than tweaks that could make this show better. I still think ‘The Voice‘ is the best of them all for real talent without trying to hide them behind backing tracks and over produced numbers.

Since Pepsi is still very much part of the ‘X Factor’, the producers will definitely be listening to some of what they have to say while they keep taking that money. Fergie could definitely make a great judge, but I’m still feeling that Kelly Clarkson may wind up surfacing in all this somehow. We’ll see, and I’ll keep you up to date. This week should have everything ironed out before they hit the road again.

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