Sam, Kelly Rowland was indeed FIRED from the show! Simon Cowell, nor most of the X-Factor viewer-ship, did NOT want her back! And, Sam, your logic is seriously flawed:

1.) Simon Cowell had the luxury of time to find a replacement. As you now state "in time for boot camp stage," there was no need to rush-to-judgment on the matter.

2.) For ALL her notoriety, as she was T-H-E best known of ALL the X-Factor U.K. judges/mentors, she only moved less-than 150-K 'Here I am' U.K. units. This came after she was then given weekly-access to 12-Million U.K./European discretionary-spending consumers for months-on-end. Sam, what I'm trying to say is that she's now realized as a malfeasance. At the very least, she's an under-performing entity - more realistically: a liability! But to be even more frank, she's a bitter disappointment!

..Sam, it took 'Motivation' some 4-LOOOOONG months to go platinum. That's an eternity in the world of singles!

Sam, face it, Kelly Rowland is failure! Simon Cowell maybe allot of things, but a man who makes a mistake 2X isn't one of them!

X,Y,"and Z" -- OUT...!!!