Khloe Kardashian Gets the Axe

Rumors abound that Khloe Kardashain has not been asked back for another season of X-Factor.

X Factor producers insist they haven’t decided if malfunctioning host-bot Khloe Kardashian will return for season three. But the New York Post claims she won’t be back. “They are asking Mario [Lopez] to come back, but not Khloe,” an insider told the publication.

That would align with the sense we got from Fox reality chief Mike Darnell last month, as well as a tip we recently received that Fox denied. “I think the hosts were okay,” Darnell told EW in January. “I think Mario knows how to be a host. I think Khloe was new. And I thought for someone new she did okay. She never hosted before.”

For now, however, the network and the show’s producers say the Kardashian report is premature. “The producers have not yet made the talent decisions for this year,” an X Factorrep said in statement. (Yet if you always believe what The X Factor team says about departing talent rumors, then you’d still think Steve Jones was hosting the show).

Jacked from Entertainment Weekly