Last night’s X Factor was the second round of auditions in Dublin and London.

Here are the Cheryl Cole highlights to the episodes of The X Factor & The Xtra Factor, with a big thanks to Snoop for providing them.

Click the above links to watch them online. Alternatively, click the links at the bottom to take you to the forum for the HQ download, the full show and screencaps.

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Cheryl Cole will be hosting the Judges Houses stage of The X Factor from Hollywood while Simon Cowell will go more low-key in Spain.

This stage in the competition splits the contestants into four groups – the boys under 25s, girls under 25s, groups and over 25s.

Judges Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue will invite their category’s contestants to a house where they will whittle them down ready for the live shows.

Cole, 27, will fly her acts out to Hollywood so she can continue working on her next album in LA while Cowell, 50, will travel to Spain and set up home there.

Irishman Louis Walsh will stay close to home and have his acts travel with him to Shannon, Ireland, while new mum Minogue, 38, will fly her acts to Melbourne, Australia, so she can spend more time with her baby son.

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The X Factor is back! Tonight’s show was a great opening to, what is expected to be another amazing series.

Here are the Cheryl Cole highlights to the first episodes of The X Factor & The Xtra Factor, with a big thanks to Snoop for providing them.

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Here are 2 previews of X Factor auditions to be aired tonight. Click on the thumbs to watch.

Tune into ITV1 at 7.30pm for tonight’s opening show of The X Factor 2010! Don’t miss out!

Miss Cole contracted malaria after going to Tanzania on holiday in June but it was only discovered after she collapsed while working on the new series, the seventh in the show’s run.

Millions of viewers will see the moment she lies down on a row of chairs and complains of not feeling well.

The footage will show her saying: “I am definitely coming down with something.”

In a video to fans ahead of the new series, Miss Cole said she was “absolutely gutted that I missed the last auditions and boot camp but I’m really excited to see what Simon, Louis and Nicole have chosen”.

It has also been reported that Miss Cole, 27, is likely to have completed her divorce from the footballer Ashley Cole by the time she appears on screen.

Her malaria kept her out of filming for the entire stages of the auditions and boot camp. At one point she was said to be close to death with the condition.

The X Factor is on ITV1 at 7.30pm on Saturday.

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X Factor judge Cheryl Cole has confessed that she “can’t wait” until the Judges’ Houses stage of the contest, says a report.

The 27-year-old told the official website that she is desperate to discover which category she will be mentoring during the live finals.

Cheryl missed out on most of the earlier stages of the reality TV singing contest because she was suffering from malaria.

In a recorded video message, she said: “I’m really sorry I couldn’t be there at the launch today and I’m absolutely gutted that I missed the last audition and the Boot Camp stage.

“But I’m really excited and really looking forward to seeing who Simon [Cowell], Louis [Walsh] and Nicole [Scherzinger] have chosen.

“I can’t wait to get my category so I can get my teeth into it at Judges’ Houses.”

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Here is a 30 second advert for The X Factor 2010! The new series starts next Saturday at 7.30 on ITV.

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Cheryl Cole reportedly wants rumoured beau Derek Hough to help her at the Judges’ House phase of the X Factor.

The Girls Aloud singer is said to want Hough to assist her in chosing the acts she wants to mentor on the live shows instead of her previous aides pal Kimberley Walsh and Pop Idol champ Will Young.

According to the Daily Star, Chezza allegedly believes that Dancing With The Stars performer Derek can help her chose artists that can not only sing, but dance as well.

This tactic will impress the likes of X Factor boss Simon Cowell who has claimed that he is looking for an ‘all-round’ performer on this year’s show.

A source told the newspaper: “Simon thought last year’s contestants didn’t move enough. He called one of them, Stacey Solomon, a singing candle,”

They added: “Cheryl thinks that having dancer and choreographer Derek on board will boost her chances of winning. She can help with their ­singing and he can teach them some moves.”

It has also been suggested that the Parachute singer has ditched plans to film the judges’ houses stage at her home in Surrey so she can remain in LA with Derek – who is apparently on the brink of proposing marriage to Cheryl.

A source told Now magazine: “The only reason he hasn’t pushed it is because she’s so recently split from Ashley….But when the time’s right, within a year he thinks, he’ll ask her.”

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