Pop legend Robbie Williams has hinted that plans to see him become the fifth judge on next year’s X Factor are at an advanced stage.

The former Take That star has confirmed that he has “postponed” a tour to allow him to participate in the talent show.
Williams told GMTV that there was some truth in the rumours that Simon Cowell had asked him to join him, Cheryl Cole, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh on the panel of the show.
He said: “I’d like to confirm that’s a goer.”
Meanwhile, X Factor runner-up Olly Murs has claimed that Williams has asked about a possible collaboration in 2011.

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SIMON COWELL has blasted the campaign to get RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE to the festive top spot – branding its supporters “a hate mob”.


He says the Facebook crusade to keep this year’s X Factor winner from being the Christmas No1 is akin to bullying.
The campaign urges people to buy Rage’s Killing In The Name to thwart JOE McELDERRY’s The Climb.

Race for No1

Rage Against The Machine….. 253,000

Joe McElderry……. 216,000

According to The Sun, Music mogul Simon is so angry he interrupted his hols in Barbados to ring me yesterday. He raged: “All these musical snobs have ganged up against Joe.

“If you take me out of the equation, you have a teenager with his first single being attacked by a huge hate mob on Facebook. It almost feels like a little kid being bullied. It feels like a spiteful campaign aimed at an 18-year-old who won a talent competition.

“It’s David versus Goliath and it’s not fair on Joe. It’s getting out of hand.”