People.com — Cowell challenges Freddie Combs, 40, to get out of his wheelchair and sing "Wind Beneath My Wings" more info

411 Mania — She's a fan... more info

Mjsbigblog — Live Blogging X Factor right here! It’s the last week of auditions before boot camp begins… more info

Mjsbigblog — Mohegan Sun in Connecticut tweets, “Tonight! @CaseyJames from @AmericanIdol plays in the #WolfDen. The free show starts at 8pm” The X Factor USA tweets, “Word on the street is @britneyspears @SimonCowell @LA_Reid & @ddlovato are making an appe... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — The point is, when Simon calls someone a star, it means that person is worth a second look. And that’s exactly what Simon said (pun unintended this time) when Chris Rene auditioned for the first American season of The X Factor . More » Post from... more info

Starpulse — After wasting 20 minutes on backstage chatter and bad auditions it was beginning to look like Providence, Rhode Island was a bust...until 15 year old Dinah blew the judges away with her performance... more info

Perez Hilton — No walk of shame for Simon Cowell's latest lady! The X Factor judge had a driver drop off Carmen Electra at her Beverly Hills home on Wednesday morning after spending the night at his place! Unlike their last date on which the new and somewhat unlike... more info

Guardian Music — Roundhouse, LondonTo the haunting waft of taped pagan choirs, a figure hooded within a black plastic sowester beats thunder from a bass drum like the grim reaper at an S&M rave. Two songs in, she lifts her cowl to reveal blonde cornrows, now resembli... more info

Guardian Music — The X Factor svengali has had a healer in the house to exorcise evil. If only the Top 40 could be cured so easilyIt can hardly have escaped your notice that these are relatively difficult times for Simon Cowell, not least because the current series o... more info

Starpulse — Something about this episode completely blew my mind. It wasn’t an audition, it wasn’t some crazy overreaction, it wasn’t anything to do with the actual competition of the show. It was Britney and ... more info