After 12 episodes we're down to the best of the best - Jax and Nadia.

The finalists dished the dirt on eliminated contestants, but are full of praise for each other.

Nicole Scherzinger has been confirmed as the host of the US version of The X Factor.

Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has been announced as the newest judge on the Seven Network's series The X Factor.

Cheryl Cole has been confirmed as a judge on the US version of The X Factor.

The 41-year-old singer will have a role on the new pop star search show, according to series boss Simon Cowell, but he won't reveal what it is.

MP Paula Bennett is the first of the Beehive's power brokers to step out of their comfort zone - in her case, feeding the needy at a city mission - for the new series Make Your Politician Work. By Bevan Hurley.

A new local 'family fix' series needs some serious help itself, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Rihanna turned down a place on the judging panel of The X Factor.

Reality TV is as subtle as a fart in a lift. Particularly when the MasterChef contestants are forced to buy zucchinis from a certain supermarket.

The 90210 star is expecting her third child with her husband Dean McDermott and the couple are overjoyed with the news.

Sometimes you get the feeling that some contestants think they know better than the producers and the judges. And then those people aren't there any more.

Last year's MasterChef winner Brett McGregor's cookbook takes your tastebuds on a culinary journey.

Prepare to cringe as NZ episodes of America's Next Top Model finally make it to our screens.

Greg Dixon doesn't understand all the fuss about a cooking show, not that he'd call it a cooking show.

Where are they now? It's so often the public catch-cry following reality TV shows.

She's a Samoan-born Wellingtonian but she's holding her own on a British food show. Introducing chef Monica Galetti.

Simon Cowell may have left American Idol, but he didn't take many viewers with him.

The crème de la crème of 6th form academia went head-to-head on our television sets in the 1981 final of It's Academic. Three decades later, Otahuhu College team member Alan Perrott went in search of his teammates and rivals.

Simon Cowell hits back at Sir Elton John for criticising TV talent shows.

Dear, oh dear, whatever's happened to the once-rather-wonderful Kirstie Alley? She got fat, of course.

The billionaire Celebrity Apprentice host could be running for president.

Jacqueline Smith's week of television, movies and music.