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" X Factor USA&amp;#039;s Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger have drawn threatening tweets from fans. The two female judges were the subject of viewers&amp;#039; anger after they voted off Drew Ryniewicz on Thursday night, reports TMZ. Abdul and Scherzinger both received tweets from fans &amp;quot;hoping&amp;quot; that they would &amp;quot;die&amp;quot;. Sources have said that the pair are shocked by the strong response, saying that they have never encountered such a threatening reaction before. Brian &amp;#039;Astro&amp;#039; Bradley and Ryniewicz became the the sixth and seventh acts to be eliminated from the Top 12 of X Factor USA&amp;#039;s first season last week. Scherzinger, Abdul and fellow judge LA Reid decided that Simon Cowell&amp;#039;s contestant Ryniewicz should go home ahead of Marcus Canty when the pair fell into the bottom two. Ryniewicz has remained upbeat following her eviction, saying that &amp;quot;life is only going to get better&amp;quot;. Watch Drew Ryniewicz discuss her departure from X Factor USA below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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