Khloe Kardashian will reportedly be keeping up with the next edition of The X Factor on her own time.
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"They are asking [Mario Lopez] to come back, but not Khloe," an insider told the Post.
The X Factor denied a decision has been made when contacted by the newspaper.
"The producers have not yet made the talent decisions for this year," a show representative told the Post.
Kardashian and Lopez both joined The X Factor last fall as replacements for first-season host Steve Jones. In addition to Kardashian and Lopez, the second-season shakeup also included Britney Spears and Demi Lovato replacing Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger on the show's judging panel.
However, the changes failed to provide the ratings boost The X Factor creator Simon Cowell was hoping for -- in fact, the second-season ratings were actually lower than those of Season 1 -- and Spears and fellow judge L.A. Reid each recently announced they will not return for the show's third edition.
According to the Post, Cheryl Cole is also in talks to return to the show as a third-season judge.
Cole had been part of The X Factor's original first-season judging panel but was abruptly fired and replaced with Scherzinger -- who was originally supposed to co-host the show with Jones -- midway through the season's open auditions.
Cowell later said he regretted the manner in with Cole was replaced.
"I had to apologize for the way it was handled," he said.
Cole, who had previously been a judge on the U.K.'s edition of The X Factor, sued the show for at least $2.3 million in December. According to the lawsuit, her original judging contract required she be paid a $2 million salary and additional expenses whether or not The X Factor chose to have her serve as a judge on the show's second season.
According to the Post, Cole's third-season return could be part of a settlement of the lawsuit and a plan to have a new judging panel "comprised of Cowell and three younger women."
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