{"id":23186,"date":"2026-07-03T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/simon-cowell-cancels-appearance-as-a-judge-on-x-factor-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:58:04","slug":"simon-cowell-cancels-appearance-as-a-judge-on-x-factor-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=23186","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell cancels appearance as a judge on &#8220;X Factor Israel\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran producer and reality TV judge, Simon Cowell has cancelled his scheduled appearance as a judge on the upcoming season of <em>X Factor Israel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, Simon had signed a deal to act as one of the judges on the next season of the Israeli musical reality show, which is scheduled to begin filming this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Producers of <em>X Factor Israel<\/em> confirmed that Simon has cancelled his appearance without elaborating on the reasons for his decision. A spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/tv\/global\/simon-cowell-cancels-x-factor-israel-judge-1234984812\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> that he was cancelling &#8220;for his own reasons&#8221;. Whether Simon would have any part in the production of <em>X Factor Israel <\/em>outside of judging has not been confirmed or denied.<\/p>\n<p>A representative of Reshet, which produces <em>X Factor Israel<\/em>, told the publication that members of Simon\u2019s staff had reached out with \u201clegitimate concerns\u201d over his participation in the show.<\/p>\n<p>A Jewish News report last week cited a source close to Simon as saying that the media mogul was \u201cbitterly disappointed\u201d that he could not take part for \u201ca number of reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Simon won\u2019t be going to Israel after all. I know it has already been announced that he was one of the judges, but for a number of reasons he just can\u2019t be there in Israel to film the show now. Of course, he is bitterly disappointed \u2013 but it was a decision he had to take,&#8221; stated the source refusing to say whether the decision had been taken as a result of the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Simon, who created the original version of <em>The X Factor<\/em> in Britain, is currently appearing as a judge on NBC\u2019s <em>America\u2019s Got Talent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon, who created the original version of The X Factor in Britain, is currently appearing as a judge on NBC\u2019s America\u2019s Got Talent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,39],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-23186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-entertainment","tag-simon-cowell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}