All the mumbling and giggling in the world couldn’t save Paula Abdul. According to Deadline, 3 of the 5 judges on X Factor have been given the axe. Steve Jones is back in the UK doing whatever it is the English do, Nicole Scherzinger is back trying to make her music listenable and Paula Abdul, who only heard the news from a lawyer, is back, um, well, she’s back home. None of the three left by choice.

No word yet on who Simon Cowell is choosing to join him and L.A. Reid on the judges panel for Season 2 but can we finally get Cheryl Cole over here? She’s way better than Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger. I hear her smile could make finding out that you had cancer seem like rolling around in a pile of kittens.

Hayden Panettiere and Steve Jones have broken up. Wait, Hayden was dating Steve Jones? Um, sure, why not. The two were introduced through friends and they spent two weeks in Cannes. But after that, she ended it.

“I’m single and mingling. Steve lives in London, the distance is a bit too much,” the 19-year-old Panettiere told the Mirror.

It seems that the 32-year-old Jones was no more than a part of Panettiere’s vacation fun.

“Cannes was a great experience. I was on vacation and some friends were going so I decided to come along. It was fun.”

Hayden may have made the right choice. Jones is known for his womanizing ways and his exes include the likes of Pamela Anderson, Halle Berry, model Sarah Harding, and TV host Fearne Cotton.

All those plus Pamela Anderson? Steve Jones’ penis must look like a grizzled war vet by now. It probably tells stories about how it was in Pamela one time when it got lost and couldn’t find it’s way out so it had to survive on the flora growing inside. He probably still gets the shakes when he reminisces about it. Probably why Hayden dumped him too. She got tired of hearing the same story over and over again. [NYDN]