Demi Lovato, Britney Spears and Harry Styles are possible answers to blind items

Is recovering addict Demi Lovato secretly in rehab? And has she been getting drunk and doing cocaine with Wilmer Valderrama? Did "The X Factor" push Britney Spears out of the show by telling her that she would have to take a big reduction in salary if she stayed on the show? Did Spears catch Jason Trawick cheating on her with another woman?

Did Harry Styles of "X Factor" U.K. boy band One Direction have sex with Pamela Anderson, who's been in London as a contestant on the show "Dancing on Ice"? Did Styles break up with Taylor Swift because she was ready to get married and have kids with him after dating him for less than two months? Is Simon Cowell flying in hookers while he's on vacation? Did soon-to-be-former "X Factor" U.S. host Khloe Kardashian's mother/manager tell Khloe to delay her pregnancy plans until after Khloe's pregnant sister Kim has own baby?

There have been many blind items (which are gossip items that do not name names) that have appeared in media recently, and many people are guessing that these "X Factor" stars are the answers to the blind items.

Here are the blind items that people are guessing are about "X Factor" stars:

Blind Gossip (January 4, 2013)

She has wanted a baby for a long time. She and her husband have been doing everything possible to try and conceive. Her family has been very supportive. Until now. Her mother just asked her to hold off on fertility treatments for the time being. She doesn’t want her to get pregnant right now, lest it take any attention away from her much-more-profitable sibling.

Possible guess: Khloe Kardashian (woman trying to conceive), Lamar Odom (her husband), Kris Jenner (Khloe's mother/manager) and Kim Kardashian (Khloe's pregnant sister)

Blind Gossip (January 7, 2013)

This young star is on a big TV show surrounded by talented people. We’ve talked about her several times before, including in the past few weeks. Our news about her will break your heart: She is lying to you. She says that she is sober. She is not. She talks and tweets about how wonderful sobriety is.

Well, it’s all bullsh*t. She is drinking and doing lots of drugs (mostly cocaine) again. Yes, it’s hypocritical, but it’s also typical addict behavior. Addicts are liars. And when addicts relapse, they tend to lie about it. When they are confronted with the truth, they blame someone else. This time, she is blaming "gossip sites" for her problems! Riiight.

Girl, no one on the internet forces you to hang out with a slimy, older actor who plies you with drugs and alcohol so you’ll have sex with him. No one on the internet persuades you that it is harmless to do a few shots to take the edge off. No one on the internet sticks a mountain of cocaine in front of you and hands you a rolled-up hundred-dollar bill. Fortunately, as we are writing this blind item this morning, she is back in rehab! This time it’s just for a few weeks. She will be out before the end of the month.

She lied about last year’s stint in rehab, and will undoubtedly lie about this one, too. We hope that her management team – which completely screwed up her last rehab stay by pulling her out every fifteen minutes to do a photo op to try and prove that she wasn’t in rehab – will leave her there this time. We won’t divulge her exact location, but she is safely tucked away in a very nice facility on one of the coasts. Get well, Kid.

Possible guess: Demi Lovato ("The X Factor" U.S. judge) and Wilmer Valderrama (slimy, older actor)

Crazy Days and Nights/Entertainment Lawyer (January 8, 2013)

This A list celebrity and recent reality star caught her boyfriend sleeping with another woman. Everyone knows he does it, but she had been in the dark and only found out when she overheard two of her bodyguards talking about it. Since then, she has refused to speak to him or shower. Did she ever shower much to begin with?

Possible guess: Britney Spears (former "X Factor" U.S. judge)

Crazy Days and Nights/Entertainment Lawyer (January 8, 2013)

This former almost A list tweener is still a solid B list celebrity. She has admitted that despite the help of a great therapist that she still has a long way to go in having a healthy relationship. She can't break the cycle of being dumped on and she says her therapist told her that she will end up doing something self-destructive until she can break away from the one guy who has been bringing her down. He cheats on her daily but she always takes him back no matter what. She refuses to leave him despite this and the fact that in the few years they have been dating she has caught him 20-30 times. She thinks he will change.

Possible guess: Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama

Crazy Days and Nights/Entertainment Lawyer (January 8, 2013)

This A++ list boy bander got to fulfill what he said was his biggest fantasy last night. He had sex with this former Baywatch actress.

Possible guess: Harry Styles and Pamela Anderson

Crazy Days and Nights/Entertainment Lawyer (January 9, 2013)

Apparently this A list female celebrity wanted to get married and have kids and wanted both in the next two seconds. Freaked out this other A list celebrity who told her no way and then split. The female celebrity already had rings picked out and bought for both of them.

Possible guess: Harry Styles and Taylor Swift

Blind Gossip (January 9, 2013)

Hey, it’s the same exact same pattern as last year! It might actually be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Do all the L.A. photo ops you want, Kid. You can lie to your fans, and your reps can lie to the media, and your team can call the paparazzi to "meet you at X place at Y time", but none of it changes the fact that you’re in rehab again. Your lies don’t factor into our decision to tell the truth.

Possible guess: Demi Lovato

Crazy Days and Nights/Entertainment Lawyer (January 10, 2013)

What do you do if you are a rich and very bored A+ list celebrity on vacation? Well, if you are this guy you fly in escorts who look a lot like the person you want to steal and have no problems paying them $25K a night to act like that person too.

Possible guess: Simon Cowell ("The X Factor" executive producer)

Blind Gossip (January 10, 2013)

Did she get fired or did she quit? We don’t have a simple answer to that… but we do have the complete answer! Technically, she quit. But it was because the price of staying was too high. Here is the situation: She wasn’t drawing as many viewers as they hoped she would. She wasn’t great in her role at the show. She didn’t create the hoped-for drama. She cost them a huge amount of money. But she still is a very, very big star.

So this is how the renegotiation went: "We want you back… if you’re willing to take a 50% pay cut." Now, if your boss said, "You can keep your job… if you let us cut your pay in half," what would you do? That gave her an out. She found the gig emotionally draining, but was under contract for a huge amount of money.

If they cut her pay, her team couldn’t fight her decision to quit the show. She wouldn’t have to suffer the embarrassment of a pay cut. She could easily use the excuse of wanting to get back to her primary occupation as her reason for leaving. Nobody’s embarrassed. The show got a boost from her. She got a ton of money for a few months work. Everybody parts on good terms. Everybody wins.

Possible guess: Britney Spears

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Carla Hay has been a longtime viewer of talent contests on TV. When she was a writer and editor at Billboard, she was one of the first people in the media to extensively cover "American Idol" and similar TV shows. As an entertainment journalist, she has done hundreds of celebrity interviews,...

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