JENNIFER Hudson started life as a reject on a talent show - and in 2017 Team JHud emerged with the winning act, Mo Adeniran, at the end of the series. Fans fell in love with the new coach, although 2017 was not plain sailing - she split with her fiance David Otunga after 10 years together.

Simon Cowell's arch-rival Simon Fuller has offered his X Factor enemy an olive branch. Despite numerous fall-outs over the years, the entertainment mogul made a point of name-checking Cowell when he received a star on Hollywood's prestigious Walk of Fame.

And as the 'final' season of the hit show draws to a close, Simon Fuller has revealed that he is already working on it's comeback. Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, the 55-year-old insisted viewers had not seen the end of what is undeniably his most successful creation.

Simon Fuller, the entrepreneur who turned Pop Idol into the world's most valuable television format, has warned that too many copycat shows are killing the talent show genre. Fuller, who manages Andy Murray and the Beckham "brand" alongside his extensive television and music interests, said that the "auditions before celebrity judges" format, which has dominated prime-time schedules for a decade, needs reinventing.

Simon Cowell has some choice words for American Idol creator Simon Fuller: Keep your hands off The X Factor. Cowell is finally responding to the lawsuit filed in July by Fuller against Fox and producer Fremantle claiming Fuller is owed an executive producer credit and millions of dollars in fees from the Cowell-produced X Factor, which bows in the U.S.

It is being billed in Hollywood as 'the clash of the Simons'. In one corner stands the challenger, Simon Cowell, he of the perfectly capped teeth, high-waisted trousers and acid put-downs who has decreed that his £165 million personal fortune 'simply isn't enough'.