No, not the location of the houses the judges live in – instead where contestants are off to for the “judge’s house” section of the competition, where the live finalists are selected.

SIMON
Location: Los Angeles, California.
Helpers: Kelly Rowland and Clive Davis

CHERYL:
Location: Miami, Florida.
Helpers: Derek Hough and Nicole Scherzinger

LOUIS:
Location: Nice, France.
Helpers: Brian McFadden and Delta Goodrem

DANNII:
Location: Australia
Helpers: Kylie Minogue and Rodney Jerkins

We’ve been passed a bit of a scoop by an X Factor contestant – the judges categories for this year!
There’s been a bit of a change from previous years in that the ‘overs’ category is now the 28 and Over category – previously it was 25 and over.

The judges categories are:

Simon Cowell – Girls
Louis Walsh – Boys
Dannii Minogue – 28s and Over
Cheryl Cole – Groups

Cheryl Cole has missed much of the X Factor 2010 auditions stage after contracting malaria in Tanzania, but the latest rumours are that she’s getting back on her feet and back into the auditions stage.

Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, girlfriend of Formula One star Lewis Hamilton, had been filling in for Cheryl, who was apparently terrified that Simon Cowell that Nicole might replace her for the whole series.

Cheryl has now re-taken her place as a judge, where it is also rumoured she has been allocated the Groups category.

Cheryl Cole has insisted that she won’t be miming when she performs her new single on Saturday night’s X Factor – but she won’t actually be performing it on Saturday night at all.

Instead, Cheryl is to pre-record her performance ‘live’ before the show, because of timing issues.

“I really don’t see the problem. I will be singing live, I just won’t have time to get changed and get prepared for the performance, and be a judge on the show. It would be too hectic.” Cheryl was quoted as saying in the London Evening Standard.