I don't think she's like Scowell in the way he can put on a show, but it is true that she's the only honest judge there.
Next year will be interesting. As she is getting a lot of positive feedback on Xtra factor and elsewhere on the honesty and integrity of her judging, it will make it really hard to get rid of her next year. It will look like they are sacking her for being too honest and that won't go down well with the red tops.
Mrs. Cole however, is expendable as we (as a nation) have fallen out of love with her. Next year I think they are going to have to have a major rethink as Wagner is likely to win it. They will need to do much better than this lame series if they want to restore any musical integrity to it, and cease being a pantomime. I would like to see Mrs. Cole replaced with Nicole. Losing her inanely moronic shuffling of the cliche flashcards and all of the cosying up to Simon (blegh) have to go. At least Nicole brings some long overdue intelligent comments as well as being genuinely gorgeous. No objection to Louis (it didn't really work without him anyway) and Simon obviously isn't going anywhere, but Dannii and Nicole next year please!