Bosses in charge of the British version of 'The X-Factor', have admitted that vocal enhancement has been used with contestants.

A new series of the show began in the UK over the weekend, and was very apparent to viewers at home that auto-tune techniques were being used.  

A spokesperson for the show told BBC News "The judges make their decisions at the auditions stage based on what they hear on…

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Bret Michaels has stated that he is currently in talks with American Idol producers to replace departing judge Simon Cowell.  

Michaels told Parade.com "We have a meeting in L.A. in a couple weeks and we're going to sit down and talk. They did a poll and I think it was Madonna, P. Diddy, Howard Stern and myself, and I took 50 per cent or 60 per cent of the vote and that's tremendous. I would lov…

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Rage Against the Machine have just completed their X-Factor victory concert in London at Finsbury Park.

The band promised they would perform a free show in the UK if their single 'Killing in the Name' made the UK Christmas number 1, at the expense of X-Factor winner Joe McElderry and his cover of the Miley Cyrus song 'The Climb'.  

The show started with a cartoon Simon Cowell, who appeared on…

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Simon Cowell is less than impressed with the anti X-Factor campaign which is aiming to get Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name of' to number one over Christmas in the UK, at the expense of the winning artist from the X-Factor.  A Facebook group has been set up last week to try and get the RATM song to the top spot.  

Cowell told the Independent "If there's a campaign, and I think th…

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For the last few years in the UK, the number one song in the country over Christmas has gone to the winner of The X-Factor Show.  Music fans tired of Simon Cowell's promotions, have set up a Facebook page to make Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name Of" the number one song instead.  

The description on the page states - "Fed up of Simon Cowell's latest karaoke act being Christmas No.…

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