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Simon Cowell abandons search for the new One Direction as his new reality TV series aimed at finding future pop stars fails to attract any stand out performers


A reality TV series, called The Midas Touch, which was following his search for future stars will now instead focus on Cowell as his pop dream falls apart.

A reality TV series, called The Midas Touch, which was following his search for future stars will now instead focus on Cowell as his pop dream falls apart. Despite adverts across social media, the numbers turning up at auditions have been low and many of the performances underwhelming, with some boys found to be cast-offs from rejected bands. Cowell put together One Direction's Harry Styles , Louis Tomlinson , Niall Horan , Liam Payne and Zayn Malik on The X Factor in 2010, who despite coming third then took the pop world by storm

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