X Factor (UK) 2012

Mel B is reportedly wanted by X Factor producers for 2013's series.

The Spice Girls singer appeared in the latest series' launch episode as a guest judge, before Nicole Scherzinger signed up full time.

However, she was allegedly the first choice as the fourth permanent judge, but had commitments with the Australian version of the show, reports The Sun.

A source claimed: "Mel was our first choice. She was so quick and honest. You can't let everyone down gently or the praise is meaningless.

"There's a lot of money on the table for her next year."

Gary Barlow said that he wanted Mel B as a permanent judge back in June.

Sharon Osbourne has also spoken of her interest in rejoining the series as a judge.

The X Factor returns on Saturday, August 25 at 7.45pm on ITV1.

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Originally Posted by N.Fan

It didn't make her likeable with the audiance,the contestants or the viewers.I hope never to see her again.

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Likeable to Simon Cowell :p

Brian Friedman will reportedly make a return to the UK X Factor.

Simon Cowell is said to have asked the American choreographer to fly over from the US for the live shows of the ITV competition, according to The Sun.

The move is allegedly due to Cowell's concerns that last year's acts were too wooden, and is looking to improve this year's dance routines.

"America is teeming with great choreographers, so Simon could spare him to return to the UK," a show source said. "Last year's performances were often atrocious in Simon's eyes, mainly because the choreography was all wrong.

"Brian instinctively knows what works and he was sorely missed. Simon has dug out his cheque book and given him a load of cash and said, 'Fix it'. The producers are delighted because they have the top guy back on board."

Friedman previously temporarily replaced Louis Walsh as a judge on The X Factor back in 2007. He also appeared as a judge on Cowell's show Grease Is The Word.

The X Factor next airs on Saturday (August 25) at 7.45pm on ITV1.

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X Factor hopefuls Tae Blondo have claimed that they were set up by producers on the show.

The girl group have stated that staff insisted they wear their 'Stars and Stripes' hotpants and sing a cover of 'Sweet Child O' Mine' by Guns N' Roses.

They have also claimed that their conversation about guest judge Mel B was edited to make it seem as if they were scared of her.

Mel B later criticised their "Playboy Mansion" attire on Saturday's launch episode (August 18).

Lead singer Beth Wilson told The Sun: "Mel told us, 'You look like you belong in a Playboy mansion', and said the song was dated. Yet they were the two things they knew we would do.

"The producers also asked us to talk about Mel B, then edited it to look as if we were scared.

"They've obviously done it to make Mel B live up to her reputation as Scary Spice. It was clearly a set-up."

An X Factor spokeswoman responded: "Contestants make their own decisions about what to wear and what to sing."

Whilst I like the Spice Girls and Mel B as a guest judge, I prefer Nicole because she gives constructive criticism - e.g. when she told a girl, You have power and projection but you lack tone and pitch - and she didn't say it nastily. She could have just told her she was cr@p just to get a reaction. I was getting tired of Grumpy Spice!

Mel B must have had a personality transplant,she wasn't even rude like she was the last time.

I liked when Gary said to the twins "how dare you compare yourselfs to Jedward,you sound much better than them".:)

It was good to see Jade Richards back from last year,I hope this time she gets to the live performances.

Sharon Osbourne has spoken about her rekindled relationship with Simon Cowell and how she ended up returning to this year's X Factor at Judges' Houses.

Sharon, who was a judge on the first four series of X Factor, was previously thought to have been blacklisted from the show after she publicly spoke out about Cowell at the start of the year.

The reality TV star mocked Cowell's penis size and was critical of comments he made about her in his unauthorised biography The Intimate Life Of Simon Cowell.

However, Sharon and Cowell have been in contact since her son Jack Osbourne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and the pair have patched up their differences.

"We're like brother and sister. We row, then we make up. We love each other, then we fight, then we love each other, then we fight," she said.

"But you know, one of the first people to reach out to me when Jack was diagnosed with MS was Simon. And that meant very much to me. Because it meant maybe he loves me, just a little bit."

Sharon will appear at Louis Walsh's Judges' Houses in Las Vegas. It is the first time she's appeared on the show since 2010, when she made a cameo at the same stage of the competition.

Speaking about Jack's battle with MS, Sharon said that her son was "determined not to let this stop the way he lives his life".

Commenting on how it has affected her life, she added: "You go through the guilt, you go through the, 'Is it me, was it me?', and you go through the family tree going, 'Who died of what? Where did this come from?'

"I've become even more of a control freak. I think I'm driving him nuts. He's got a headache and I'm all like, 'Go to the doctors! I'll drive you myself!' And I'm fussing and asking him what he's eating and all of that kind of thing.

"He's as good as married and he has a baby, and he left home about a hundred years ago, and I'm still fussing over him. I think I'm driving him mad. But that's what mothers are for."

The X Factor continues on Saturdays on ITV1.