Ronan Keating and Natalie Imbruglia have just been signed as judges on Australia’s XFactor. They’ve been snapped up by the Seven Network.

Ronan has guest mentored with Louis Walsh on the UK XFactor

The deal was struck after several months of negotiation between Seven, the production company Fremantle, who will produce the show, and the British company Syco, owned by music and TV industry titan Simon Cowell, which owns the format. Sources say the deal is worth skywards of $20 million.






