The search will be wide-ranging, but there is going to be one major difference from those conducted by Cowell in past years
Music mogul Simon Cowell will hold auditions across two days in Dublin this summer as he looks to discover the next "megastar" boyband.
This search will be different - there is to be no X Factor-style live productions with shiny floors and millions voting from their homes. Instead, it will be about core talent discovery with the primary goal of unearthing stars who will be the next Beatles, Take That, Westlife or of course One Direction.
He acknowledged that there remains a "degree of risk" in trying to establish a new group of stars when it has not been done in so long, especially away from a TV show, but he added: "There is no guaranteed path to success – anything can happen."
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