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FOX has canceled The X Factor, according to multiple reports.

And never has a show more deserved its fate.

Simon Cowell’s The X Factor has been canceled in the U.S. after three seasons. (AP Photo)

Neither happened, of course.

Season 1 champ Melanie Amaro has yet to release an album. Season 2 champ Tate Stevens did and promptly got dropped from his record label.

The jury is still out on Alex and Sierra. Here’s wishing them the best; they seem like a sweet couple.

Ratings? What ratings? The overblown, over-hyped, over-produced X Factor got walloped by The Voice, with its superior talent and its superior judges.

And at some point during all the hype, Simon became a caricature of himself. Once known as the truth-teller on American Idol, he was now trying to convince us that mediocre performers were brilliant just to drum up more interest in his show.

Bye-bye credibility.

What will I remember The X Factor for?

1. Throwing novices on stage in large-scale dance and music productions when they would have been better served standing behind a mike and trying to hit a majority of the notes.

2. Watching Rachel Crow, all of 13, go through an on-stage meltdown when she was eliminated in Season 1. Proof perhaps that 13 is a little young to subject someone to so much pressure.

3. Simon trying to convince us that Season 1’s Chris Rene was the next big thing when his repertoire consisted of one song (“Young Homie,” for those who forget).

4. The even more over-rated Emblem 3, three supposedly cute guys one judge compared to The Beatles, for crying out loud. They released a debut album after Season 2. It sold 70,000 copies. Way short of platinum. Or gold. The Beatles, huh?

5. A spoiled brat named Astro, whose ego was much much larger than his talent when he appeared on the show in Season 1.

And not one single X Factor.

Thanks, FOX. That announcement just brightened my weekend.