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" Simon Cowell has said that the final judging lineup for X Factor USA has yet to be confirmed.  Recent rumours had suggested that British judge Cheryl Cole had secured a place on the Fox competition&amp;#039;s panel, although Cowell has now said that he is still talking to a &amp;quot;number of people&amp;quot; about a possible role. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not going to say today on this call who we are going to confirm or not confirm because the truth is we honestly haven&amp;#039;t made our minds up yet,&amp;quot; he told reporters on a press call today. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re talking to a number of people and I expect to make an announcement within three to four weeks, although it might be a bit longer, as to who the panel are going to be.&amp;quot;  As for whether he would like to be reunited with his former American Idol colleague Paula Abdul, he would only say: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a massive fan of Paula and that&amp;#039;s quite unusual when you work with somebody for as long as we did! We were friends on the show I&amp;#039;d say 80% of the time and interestingly afterwards we&amp;#039;ve been in regular contact, so I&amp;#039;m a big fan of hers.&amp;quot; Numerous stars have been linked to a role on the judging panel including Rihanna, Katy Perry and Nicole Scherzinger, who acted as a guest judge on the British X Factor last year. It was confirmed today that the winner of X Factor USA will receive a $5 million recording contract with Sony. Auditions are open to any individual singer or group over the age of 12 and will start on March 27 in Los Angeles. X Factor USA will premiere on Fox later this year. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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