Hollywood gossip magazines are reporting that Britney Spears has signed up to judge the next season of “The X Factor.”
“There’s been a lot of back and forth over the past few weeks as they negotiated the small details, but she’s on,” an anonymous source told E! News. “It’s all completed and Britney is beyond excited.”
Spears will get paid $15 million to sit on the judges’ panel, which is also slated to include show creator Simon Cowell and recording industry executive Antonio “L.A.” Reid.
Spears isn’t the only big-name celebrity who has recently decided to give talent shows a try. Radio shock jock Howard Stern makes his debut Monday as a judge on “America’s Got Talent,”
“I think Britney is going to stand there and eat a lollipop and wear a sexy outfit and I don’t expect great opinions out of her. I’ll tune in and see what kind of a train wreck she is,” Stern said at a news conference in New York City.
Spears,30, skyrocketed to fame in 1999 with the release of her “Baby One More Time” album, but her career has been hindered by stints in rehab and erratic behavior that eventually led to her substantial fortune being placed in her father’s control.
Spears’ addition to the show comes as Cowell tries to boost the show’s ratings for its second season. Cowell had predicted that the show would score 20 million viewers a week in its debut season, but it ended up delivering only 12 million.