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X Factor: Simon Cowell Keeps Jedward For Three More Years

by | 19th, October 2010

ON the day Simon Cowell signed his £100m deal with ITV to keep the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent recycling talent and stage school drop outs until 2013, the epitome of his contribution to popular culture – Jedward – were performing with a human-stuffed Scooby Doo! character to launch the new animated film ‘Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare‘ and video game ‘Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Swamp’ at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London.

But time moves on and new acts will have to go further than hair gel and a journey. In China Liu Wei has won that country’s TV talent show by playing the piano with his toes. He has no arms.

The gauntlet has been tossed down – with Cowell’s teeth…

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John and Edward Grimes, known as Jedward, perform with the Scooby Doo! character to launch the new animated film 'Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare' and video game 'Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Swamp'at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London.



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