It’s official: Paula Abdul will join Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and LA Reid as judges on Fox’s The X Factor. Abdul just appeared on stage at the first round of judged auditions in Los Angeles. The hire rejoins the two most popular American Idol judges on a new singing competition that will launch this fall. 
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By Radar Staff
Late Saturday night contracts were signed to bring Paula Abdul onto the judging panel at Simon Cowell’s X Factor.
The reunion of Cowell and Abdul ups the ante considerably on the anticipation factor of X Factor, the talent competition Cowell created in the UK and is launching in the U.S. in September.
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Simon Cowell has chosen his judging panel for this fall’s The X Factor on Fox. According to Deadline’s Nikki Finke, former American Idol judge Paula Abdul and British singer Cheryl Cole will join Cowell and Antonio “L.A.” Reid on the panel. Cole judged on the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons of Cowell’s British version of The X Factor. 
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So far Simon Cowell has likely picked one judge for X Factor that 61 percent of Americans won’t understand (ultra-Brit Cheryl Cole) and definitely selected another that 98 percent have never heard of (L.A. Reid).* Could some homegrown star power be next on the list? Cowell told reporters that Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie is 
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On the heels of today’s announcement that music mogul Antonio “L.A.” Reid has signed on as a judge on the U.S. version of Fox’s upcoming talent-show series The X Factor, the show’s creator/star Simon Cowell is talking about how the high-profile hiring came about. “Taking it back to basics, since we were making the point that 
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