Gary Barlow, Tulisa Contostavlos and Louis Walsh are back for the next series of the X Factor with Nicole Scherzinger as a fully-fledged judge completing the awesome foursome.

The show hasn’t changed much although the locations have been swapped around, instead of saying “You’re through to London”. They’ll now have to practice saying, “You’re through to Liverpool”, as that is where the boot camp stage will take place. The final that takes place on the 9 December will now be in Manchester’s Central Exhibition Megadrome instead of being in Wembley arena.

There’s a whole new lovely of panel of guest; Geri Halliwell will help out at the Liverpool auditions. Leona Lewis and Rita Ora will be at the London one’s and Mel B and Anastacia will be at the Manchester and Glasgow auditions.

Some more interesting information:

- The Overs category age limit will be raised from 25 to 28.

- The contestants can now sing their own material and play instruments. Exciting! So get ready for Ed Sheeran/KT Tunstall-alikes.

Before we forget, the 75-minute show airs this Saturday (18 August) at 8pm on ITV.