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  Geri Halliwell brings her own special magic to Twitter

  21 Jun 2012: The X Factor guest judge is delighting her followers with handwritten messages

• Look apologises for Britney X Factor rider 'inaccuracy'

  13 Jun 2012: Media Monkey: Magazine admits Spears did not demand 'excess all areas' backstage on US talent show

• Unpaid X Factor interns receive compensation

  7 Jun 2012:

  Young people who worked without pay for three months get up to £3,000 each

• Simon Cowell: cooking up a feast of talent?

  7 Jun 2012: Media Monkey: The X Factor supremo reported to be plotting a 'Best of British' cooking contest

• Alexandra Burke: Heartbreak on Hold – review

  

  31 May 2012: Alexandra Burke was one of the most appealing X Factor winners, but her new album sees her personality largely wiped out, writes Caroline Sullivan

• The best No 1 records: Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger

  31 May 2012:

  Tom Ewing: 2011: On first listen it was the awful work of a pop Frankenstein. A few plays on and you had to submit to the onslaught of hooks

• Cheryl Cole: 'I've dined with Prince Charles, but I've also sat in a crack den'

  27 May 2012:

  From teenage wannabe to the nation's favourite Geordie, Cheryl Cole's life has captivated us for a decade. She talks to Barbara Ellen about bringing back Girls Aloud, the importance of loyalty – and why she'll never be part of Simon Cowell's harem

• Geri Halliwell in rooftop protest as Liverpool boos her

  24 May 2012: The former Spice Girl tries to impress X Factor's Liverpudlian audience by climbing on top of her limo, but it doesn't quite have the desired effect

• Fox upfronts: network banks on ageing Idol and plays it safe with new scripts

  15 May 2012:

  With House checking out and Glee in a talespin, last year's New Girl is the one everyone is looking up to (plus: Kevin Bacon!)

• Britney Spears will join Simon Cowell as judge on US X Factor

  15 May 2012:

  Singer joins Demi Lovato and LA Reid on talent show panel

• Yorkshire aims at youth with its cannibalistic anthem

  14 May 2012:

  Jolliest version yet is recorded in the sunshine of the grisly tale of the Ilkley lover whose remains...well, best to check out the lyrics for yourself

• Alan Turing: "I am building a brain." Half a century later, its successor beat Kasparov

  14 May 2012:

  The chair of the Alan Turing centenary celebrations, Professor S. Barry Cooper of Leeds University, continues his guest blog for the Guardian Northerner with a look at a legendary chess match

• Rebecca Ferguson: next she takes Manhattan

  13 May 2012:

  Rebecca Ferguson was never your typical X Factor finalist. As the Liverpool mother of two hits America, Jude Rogers joins her for shoe-shopping and 'a proper brew'

• Come on, Clarkson. Have the guts to take on Cowell

  10 May 2012: So Jeremy Clarkson bows out of a ratings fight between Top Gear and The X Factor. But why is he so petulant?

• Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell by Tom Bower – review

  6 May 2012:

  Bonks, Botox and bitching give Cowell's life story the X factor, writes Barbara Ellen. And then the ennui sets in…

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