The x factor

• Steve Jones and Nicole Scherzinger are leaving The X Factor after one season. Jones, 34, revealed on Monday via Twitter that he would not be returning to the show.
(YAHOO!)
• When The X Factor U.S. executive producer/judge Simon Cowell said in a December 2011 interview that there will be bloodbath changes on the show in 2012, he wasnt exaggerating.
(Examiner)
• Nicole Scherzinger, a judge on Foxs The X Factor, is leaving the show, Fox has confirmed to TheWrap. Her departure marks the second loss in one day for the show. Earlier on Monday, host Steve Jones tweeted that he is leaving.
(Reuters)
• It's fair to say that no reality show singing competition winner has ever been on the kind of high-profile launching pad that The X Factor champion Melanie Amaro is about to experience: Her own Super Bowl commercial.
(Entertainment Weekly Online)
• Amaros appearance in Pepsis Super Bowl XLVI spot is part of her historic grand prize win on FOXs, THE X FACTOR. The deal also includes a $5 million recording contract for the winner, making it the largest guaranteed prize package in television history.
(PR Newswire)
• And then there were two! Paula Abdul has just become the third member of the The X Factor who is reported to not be returning to the show.
(omg! on Yahoo!)
• The X Factor, which had a solid but less-than-blockbuste​r premiere year, won't go in to its second season standing still.
(MSN TV)
• X Factor USA winner Melanie Amaro goes medieval with Sir Elton John in her forthcoming Pepsi Super Bowl commercial. Details surrounding the commercial were released Monday, along with a behind the scenes look at the shoot.
(Examiner)
• It's official, Simon Cowell has not invited X Factor host, Steve Jones, for next season. Also, Nicole Scherzinger got the boot as well, I guess he listened to fans that they weren't happy with the Pussycat Doll.
(astrochicks)
• BREAKING… EXCLUSIVE: Today at The X Factor was a bloodbath which just claimed its biggest name.
(Deadline.com)