If you have been blithely buried beneath some rubble, you probably don't know what X Factor is. I'm sorry. I can't help atone for any consequent guilt you're feeling for not knowing about One Of The Most Amazing Spectacles This Increasingly Yellowing Earth Has Ever Experienced...Ever. I can, however, provide a shortcut for you to catch up, by way of some back-alley blather that's transpiring about Fox's stab at Americanizing the British talent show. A mogul whose retinas are tattooed with dollar signs, Simon Cowell is the one who basically made another Simon (the one who cobbled the Spice Girls together in 1994) irrelevant. He did this by ripping off the formula for the latter's worldwide Idol franchise and tweaking it enough to avoid litigation, consequently expelling X Factor through his creative coochie snorcher.
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