Cheryl Cole Gives X Factor "Best" Launch Show Ever

Simon Cowell definitely won't be regretting his decision to add Cheryl Cole to the X Factor judgement panel -- the Girls Aloud maven helped the show recoil off with its "biggest and best" launch show ever.

The diminutive singer, 25, was drafted in to replace Sharon Osbourne afterwards she renounce earlier this year. And the fifth series of the pip show, which kicked sour on the UK's ITV Saturday, garnered a humongous 10 meg viewers -- an telling 54 pct of the total TV audience,

Cheryl joined Cowell, Louis Walsh and Dannii Minogue on the judging panel.

The ITV1 strike peaked at 12.1 million and even beat last year's final, when an modal 11.7 million saw Leon Jackson win the �1million ($2m) record deal, reports Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper.

Meanwhile, ITV2 spin-off Xtra Factor with new host Holly Willoughby peaked at 1.5 million.

In contrast, the BBC's National Lottery show was watched by only 3.6 million.

An X Factor insider aforesaid, "This was the biggest and c. H. Best launch the show has ever had and it should cover throughout the series."

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Beyonce Knowles Lightens Up For Controversial L'Oreal Ad?

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Has Beyonce Knowles undergone miracle skin lightning treatment, or did L�Oreal digitally alter her face to attend paler on one of their advertisements? That is the query on everyone�s lips at the moment.


The 26-year-old asterisk, who signed on with the company as a spokesmodel in 2006, is featured in an advertisement for L'Or�al Paris in the September edition of U.S. women's fashion magazine Elle.


The magazine includes a full-length head shot of the other Destiny's Child singer as she pitches a hair-highlighting product, disgraceful readers world Health Organization noticed her apparent change in appearance, according to the New York Post.

Left: Radiant looking skin, Right: Ghost Beyonce!

The company advertises their intersection in eighter pages throughout the magazine publisher, featuring a host of other celebrities including Scarlett Johansson, Milla Jovovich and Penelope Cruz.


A representative for Hachette Filipacchi Media, the company that publishes the magazine, has confirmed they are looking at into the matter, adding magazine editors generally take advertisers' products without close inspection.


What do you think, has Beyonce�s skin tone of voice been made lighter? Whatever the intellect, let�s hope she�s worth it.