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"Simon Cowell has confirmed that Fergie&amp;#039;s name has been put forward as a possible X Factor USA judge.  The music executive was asked about rumours that the Black Eyed Peas star could join the panel of the Fox show during a conference call with reporters today. &amp;quot;All I can tell you is that her name was put forward but, like with a lot of people we have spoken to, we have to check out everyone&amp;#039;s availability,&amp;quot; he replied. &amp;quot;There is a lot of time you have to put into this show, because it&amp;#039;s not a two day a week job when you are in the live shows. You are mentoring the contestants and working five or six days a week. I can confirm that her name has been put forward.&amp;quot; Numerous big names have been linked to the panel in recent months including Katy Perry, Nicole Scherzinger and British judge Cheryl Cole. The only judge to be confirmed so far is L.A. Reid, although producer Rob Wade recently told DS that he hoped to have the panel finalised by the end of the month. Cowell joked that everyone involved with the show has been having &amp;quot;nightly arguments&amp;quot; as they try to agree on the remaining panellists, saying: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m used to this; I&amp;#039;ve done shows in the past where the day before filming we still haven&amp;#039;t agreed on the fourth judge because people freak out, they have different ideas, another name comes into play.&amp;quot; He went on to say that discovering who is &amp;quot;enthusiastic&amp;quot; about appearing on the show has been interesting, pointing out Gloria Estefan&amp;#039;s surprise appearance at the Miami auditions this morning, where she offered words of advice to hopefuls. &amp;quot;I had no idea she was going to be there,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve found the whole process really interesting to see who is enthusiastic about being part of the show\u2026 I think it&amp;#039;s fun but it does show publicly our complete, utter indecisiveness!&amp;quot; Auditions for the Fox competition continue at the Prudential Center, Newark (April 14), Key Arena, Seattle (April 20), Sears Center Arena, Chicago (April 27) and Dallas Convention Center, Dallas (May 26).  People who cannot make the open auditions can also submit their video performances through special audition recording booths in Honolulu and Phoenix (from tomorrow), Nashville (April 9), Anchorage (April 12), Kansas City (April 15) and Denver (April 16). The booths will remain open until April 30. More information is available here. The ultimate prize is a $5 million recording contract with Syco/Sony Music. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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