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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Simon Cowell's X Factor includes drag queen Justine White

Simon Cowell's X Factor includes drag queen Justine White Remember Josh McGuire's meltdown? Well someone taking Simon Cowell's advice to heart. Of the 75,000 applicants to be on the UK reality television series X Factor this year, one was a middle-aged dairy farmer named Justin White who failed to make the grade and didn't make it through the first set of auditions. Later on, however, much to the surprise of the judges, Justine arrived. They're banking on Justine and a platform of more outrageous contestants than before to reverse the ITV network's recent ratings slump. Simon Cowell, whose production company Syco makes the show, said that 90% of those who auditioned this year are "completely nuts. It's basically a musical version of 'Little Britain'," he said. Fellow judges Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne agree.�
[Date: 17-Aug-05 ]

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