Is Jennifer Love Hewitt the X Factor that the show has been looking for?

After Britney Spears and L.A. Reid departed the judges table after this past season, Simon Cowell is reportedly hoping that Jennifer will join him and Demi Lovato as a judge on the Fox reality competition show. A source has confirmed to Us Weekly that "Simon is very interested" in hiring her.

It's not a done deal yet, though. Find out who else is reportedly in the running after the jump!

First Emblem3 and now Fifth Harmony! Here's some news that shouldn't surprise anybody who watched the show. The fan favorites from Season Two of The X-Factor aren’t going out of sight anytime soon –- now that they officially signed a record deal. Maybe it’s better to not win the show…

The five-piece girl group signed to Simon Cowell’s Syco Music and Epic Records. And who else is signed Simon’s label? Um, One Direction! And we all know how that’s turning out.

Check out what the girls had to say after the jump!

LeAnn Rimes wants you to know that she was NOT drunk during her performance on X Factor earlier this week.

Her woozy, wobbly off-key duet of "How Do I Live" with finalist Carly Rose Sonenclar attracted plenty of attention, but LeAnn insisted that it had nothing to do with the ah-ah-ah-ah-ah alcohol. She said that if any of the performance was awkward, it was because, "I was trying to help this 13-year-old girl who was having some trouble with the song," according to TMZ. Throwing a teenager under the bus? Classy.