9:12pm Saturday 4th October 2008
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Thousands of X Factor hopefuls are already toast - but now Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole have been given the same treatment.
A food artist has used toasted bread to create portraits of the judges' faces.
His images of Cowell, Cole, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh have been created with slices of bread, a blowtorch and a knife.
Lennie Payne, from Rainham, Essex, has been working with toast for 10 years.
He created the portraits for Warburtons for its advertising campaign to be broadcast on the X Factor.
A spokesman for Warburtons said: "The X Factor is such a hit with millions of fans across the UK and the perfect platform to launch our new ad. We hope the judges are pleased with being preserved on toast forever."
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