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Season two of the American television music competition show The X Factor premiered on Fox on September 12, 2012, and ended on December 20, 2012. [1] [2]Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals.
On 20 September 2012, the Seven Network issued a statement saying that contestant Josh Brookes was disqualified from The X Factor because he "behaved in an inappropriate manner" on social media. [8] A Twitcam video that was later uploaded to YouTube displays Brookes and contestant Adil Memon asking teenage girls for "sneaky banana pics", a ...
For this season of The X Factor, Cowell confirmed that the boot camp and judges' houses sections of the competition, which traditionally followed the audition rounds, had been dropped and replaced with a brand new stage called "The Four-Chair challenge", which took place at the Shrine Auditorium and was filmed over 2 days in September 2013 ...
At the time of announcing the USA show of The X Factor, Cowell was the only confirmed judge. [2] Eventually, Grammy Award-winning record executive, songwriter, and record producer L.A. Reid, [3] [4] The X Factor UK judge Cheryl Cole, [5] [6] and Cowell's former American Idol colleague Paula Abdul [7] [8] Numerous people were speculated to host the series, including High School Musical star ...
After season one, the show's producers had said that they would undergo some changes which resulted in, what media outlets called, an "X Factor Shake-up". On January 30, 2012, it was announced that neither Abdul nor Scherzinger would return as a judge for season two [ 26 ] When searching for replacements, Cowell sought to hire pop star Britney ...
Back in 2008, the world was introduced to a budding young singer named Liam Payne when he auditioned for the fifth season of the British TV series The X Factor. Now 16 years later, the world is ...
The next week, Strictly Come Dancing 's lead on The X Factor increased, with The X Factor 's peak rating of 9.3 million being less than Strictly Come Dancing 's average rating of 9.91 million. [145] The next day, The X Factor was beaten by Strictly Come Dancing for the first time on a Sunday, as well as Downton Abbey , though The X Factor had a ...
In 2012, Sonenclar auditioned for the second season of The X Factor USA with the song "Feeling Good" by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse (famously covered by Nina Simone among others). Sonenclar received a standing ovation from all four judges (L.A. Reid commented "You may be 13, but your soul is old!";