Dannii Morphs Into ‘Grumpy Judge’ On UK Talent Show, Red Symons Prepares For War

Australia’s Got Talent judge Dannii Minogue – who, last we can recall, spent most of her time on the Channel Seven program fawning over any act that came her way, doubly so if there happened to be any sort of rainbow tinge to the performance – has apparently morphed into a harsh assessor of showbiz skill now that she’s appearing on Britain’s The X Factor.

Dannii, who’s joined Simon “normally the nasty one” Cowell and Sharon Osbourne as judges on the UK version of The X-Factor, is becoming increasingly unpopular with the contestants.

Choreographer Brian Friedman explains: “One girl came in for auditions and said, ‘I used to like Kylie’.” Dannii didn’t like being compared to her sister and voted her out on the spot.

“She has left several contestants in tears.” Meow!

The idea of any contestant feeling the need to put on the waterworks after hearing Dannii Minogue finds them talentless strikes us as vaguely amusing, but there you go.

(Our beloved gay and UK correspondent Will is no doubt going to kill us for writing the above sentence.)