For years now, we’ve watched on as The X Factor has been shedding viewers and slowly losing its relevancy in today’s pop culture landscape. True to form, though, Simon Cowell has a plan up his sleeve to (hopefully) change all of that.
Enter: the celebrities.
It has been reported Simon is ditching the usual bunch of talent show hopefuls in favour of famous faces this year, bringing back the Battle Of The Stars format, which previously aired as a one-off series back in 2006.
According to the major tabloids, this year’s auditions have been cancelled, and instead we will watch a celebrity line-up murder a load of Mariah and Whitney classics in front of a panel of judges.
While the rumours remain unconfirmed for now – a show insider told HuffPost UK simply that the show “has not been axed and will be back on ITV later this year” – we’ve been dreaming up who we’d like to see face the music…