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'X Factor' Shocker: Simon Cowell Tells Audience to Be as 'Badly Behaved as You Want'

5:11 PM PDT 5/8/2011 by Kimberly Nordyke, Shirley Halperin

Judge "L.A." Reid also takes a swipe at "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson: "Don't say dog."

The judges auditions for Simon Cowell's The X Factor are finally under way.

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