Rita Ora's confirmed she won't be back on The X Factor this year

'Body On Me' hitmaker Rita Ora has confirmed she won't be returning to The X Factor as a judge this year.

The con­firm­a­tion was made using the medium of Twitter, although the story had already appeared in The Sun yesterday.

I had a ball on @TheXFactor last year and will miss the team.

— Rita Ora (@RitaOra) May 10, 2016

Given that Nick Grimshaw and Cheryl Cole had already confirmed they won't be back, it now means the panel consists solely of Simon Cowell, which is probably how he'd prefer it to be honest.

Expect there to be quite a bit of fas­cin­at­ing 'spec­u­la­tion' for the next few months or so.