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"Simon Cowell has revealed that he will be making an announcement about the US version of The X Factor in &amp;quot;two weeks&amp;#039; time&amp;quot;. The music mogul commented that the judging panels for both the Britsh and American versions of the show have not been set in stone, teasing that he has &amp;quot;surprises&amp;quot; in store for viewers. &amp;quot;We are going to make an announcement soon,&amp;quot; PA quotes him as saying. &amp;quot;We have to make sure all the shows will be back bigger, better, stronger, different. No-one has been contracted yet, apart from me.&amp;quot; However, he insisted that the US competition, due to launch later this year, will not damage its British counterpart. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got some ideas and I&amp;#039;m trying to make a show I&amp;#039;d like to watch. It has got to be different, full stop,&amp;quot; he said. Speaking about Louis Walsh and Dannii Minogue&amp;#039;s future on the ITV show, he revealed: &amp;quot;They haven&amp;#039;t been given a contract yet. We are in the process of going through all the shows. I think there are going to be a few surprises. I genuinely do. I don&amp;#039;t think there&amp;#039;s one set way of doing it... I am in conversations with ITV and Fox.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;The most important thing is to make a commitment to the people who watch the shows and make sure they are better than last year&amp;#039;s.&amp;quot; The X Factor scooped the &amp;#039;Most Popular Talent Show&amp;#039; prize at the National Television Awards last night. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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