Whitney Houston's "comeback" album I Look To You comes out in Britain this week, so naturally she's been on the promotional fast-track across the pond, capped off by a performance on The X Factor. (Some contestants even sang Whitney songs this week, including frontrunner Danyl Johnson crooning her recent triumph-of-the-spirit ballad "I Didn't Know My Own Strength.") A live-televised wardrobe malfunction, however, nearly derailed Whitney's comeback efforts on Sunday night's results show. 

Thankfully, British television decency standards are a lot more lax than the ones set here by America's FCC (who once persecuted Janet Jackson for a similar incident)...but Whitney still almost turned The X Factor into The Triple-X Factor.

Apparently, Whitney didn't know the own strength, or lack thereof, of her brassiere. But to be honest, it wasn't that much a disaster; it could have been much worse. Her bra-style bodice (which became unlatched in the back midway through her song, and then flapped

First, Chris Daughtry covered Lady Gaga's "Poker Face"...and now another heartland-rocking Idol by the name of Kris--Kris Allen, that is--has taken on another big blonde pop-bombshell classic. Yes, the American Idol winner recently performed Britney Spears's "Hit Me Baby One More Time," and, as Simon or Randy or Kara might say, he made it his own:

Much like Britney's iconic video for the song, Kris's performance of "Hit Me Baby" took place on a high school campus--specifically Seton High in Cincinnati, at a concert to honor the students for raising $5,000 for breast cancer awareness. Amusingly, it was an all-girl school, so there were plenty of students wearing Britney-esque plaid kilts, which may have inspired the cover song in the first place. (The remake may have also been inspired by Travis's rendition, but that's just speculation on my part; Kris seems like a Travis fan.)

Anyway, Kris refrained from donning a signature Spears-y schoolgirl skirt himself, of course, but he did

Superstar producer Rob Cavallo, who's worked with everyone from Green Day and My Chemical Romance to season 7 American Idol winner David Cook, came by the Yahoo! Yodel Studio in the middle of New York City's Times Square today, where lookie-loos and aspiring cyber-celebs recorded their own versions of the iconic Yahoo! yodel with the assistance of celebrity mentors (including Rob, Randy Jackson, Jewel, LeAnn Rimes, and Pete Wentz).

But when I had a chance to sit down with Rob, all I wanted to talk about was a whole other studio-recording situation. See, Rob is one of several producers currently working on the upcoming Adam Lambert album, and he also worked on Adam's recently leaked 2012 movie theme, "Time For Miracles." This was a guy I needed to talk to.

And so there, right in the middle of Times Square surrounded by yodelers awaiting Rob's guidance, I demanded that he discuss how he's guiding Adam's recording process, and give me some sort of album scoop. And thankfully, Rob was more

Over the years, "is he or isn't he?"-type homosexuality gossip has dogged various American Idol contestants--like Adam Lambert, Clay Aiken, David Hernandez, Jim Verraros, and Danny Noriega, to name but a famous few. But none of these singers, of course, were ever outed by an actual judge on the show.

However, over on the other side of the pond this past weekend--on Simon Cowell's other big talent show, The X Factor--judge Dannii Minogue did just that. Referring to tabloid rumors that frontrunner Danyl "Best First Audition Ever" Johnson may be bisexual, she joked about his performance of the Dreamgirls hit "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," saying it might not have been necessary for him to change the lyrics so that he was serenading a female love interest instead of a male one.

"If we're to believe what's in the papers, there was no need to switch the gender reference," she quipped.

Whoops. That joke didn't go over too well. Even the usually unflappable Simon seemed greatly