Simon Cowell made up for lost time on Twitter by breaking his month of near-silence with a series of 17 cryptic messages this morning.

Simon Cowell acknowledged that he and Carmen Electra are an item. So is it serious for Electwell!?! Read on to find out.

Simon Cowell is no stranger to weird anti-aging treatments, so it’s not a shock that he’s trying out smearing sheep stem-cells on his face.

52-year-old Simon Cowell is a pretty successful and powerful dude (despite the fact that his American X Factor venture has so far yielded disappointing results,) and he’s also filthy rich and makes no bones about being vain. In fact, it seems he’ll try about anything to stave off the aging process (except, of course, give up his smokes.)

It seems the addition of one of the planet’s biggest pop stars as a judge wasn’t enough to help Simon Cowell’s reality competition series The X Factor beat out NBC’s The Voice as the show’s second season premiered Wednesday night with 8.73 million viewers compared to The Voice’s 10.89 million viewers. But it wasn’t just their competitors on another network that beat them out, the Fox series also lost out to itself, down 32 percent from last season’s X Factor premiere.

On the first episode of the second season of The X Factor USA, Jillian Jensen brought tears to everyone’s eyes, including Simon Cowell with her heartbreaking story and heartrending performance of Jessie J “Who You Are.” At the end Demi Lovato was so moved that she walked on stage to huge and reassure her.

Are you one of the millions of people wondering what Britney Spears is going to be like as a judge on The X Factor this season? Thanks to a bit of good old fashioned bootlegging from some fans in attendance at the recent auditions in Austin, Texas you can wonder a little bit less! Check out these audio recordings of Britney responding to performances in which it becomes pretty obvious pretty quick she is going to be holding nothing back!

Brand new X Factor judge Britney Spears showed up for her first day of work as the show taped its first round of auditions in Austin, Texas earlier today. The pop star wore a tight little pink dress with a shear midriff that could prove to be quite the distraction for all the aspiring heterosexual males and lesbians trying out for the show! Keep reading to see her arrival as well as that of her fellow judges Demi Lovato, LA Reid and the honorable Simon Cowell!

UPDATE - See a photo of the judges sitting at the table from inside the auditions and find out who’s sitting where this season!

My mama taught me you should never judge, unless you can get a desperate sweater chested Simon Cowell to pay you $20 million to! Ah yes, the speculation that Brit-Brit will be slurping down Venti Mocha Frappachinos while giving her professional opinion on young singers for the American version of X Factor continue to swirl. Get the latest and find out Britney’s other option that would have her going all Celine Dion!

And we all thought Donald Trump was the king of reality firing! Simon Cowell went down to the basement of his evil lair to get out his chopping axe and dude has been swingin’! Simon “Pink Slip McGee” Cowell has handed walking papers to Nicole Scherzinger, Steve Jones and now Paula Abdul. Yep. Paula, who was personally recruited by Simon after she was previously asked to leave American Idol, got canned too. Read on for the carnage including the impersonal way Paula found out about the dismissal and the word on who might be filling their shoes.