Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland to swap on The X Factor?

British tabloids think that Simon Cowell is planning a Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland judge swap on The X Factor next season.

Can it just be a Nicole swap out for somebody else instead? (Maybe Mariah?) It's interesting how Nicole's ineffectiveness on the U.S. version of The X Factor is resonating worldwide. The report from THR:

From THR:

Leave it to the British tabs to cook up another X Factor fantasy, this time involving U.S. judge Nicole Scherzinger and U.K. judge Kelly Rowland.

According to Now Magazine, the show, and creator Simon Cowell specifically, is contemplating a possible swap that would send Scherzinger to London and bring Rowland to Los Angeles. The weekly quotes a source who says, “Simon thinks [Rowland] will be amazing on the US show” and notes that Scherzinger has had a “mixed reaction in the U.S.”