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Shakeup at Fox’s ‘X Factor’

Judges Abdul and Scherzinger and host get the boot.

Fox’s The X Factor will have some personnel changes for its second season, the network announced Monday. Judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger, and Steve Jones, who was the British import’s host, will not return. “I can’t complain as I’ve had a great time,” Jones posted on Twitter after the news broke. “Good luck to everyone on the show.” The X Factor was brought to America by Simon Cowell, the producer who is best known to American television watchers for his work as a splenetic American Idol judge. No announcements have been made about who might fill the two openings when the singing competition returns to Fox in the fall.