VIDEO: Here's Vogue Editor Hamish Bowles Singing "Oops!...I Did It Again" at His X Factor Audition

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Because the story is just too good to go without video, here's what it looked like when Vogue European Editor-at-Large Hamish Bowles went undercover and tried out for Simon Cowell's show The X Factor. Take a look after the jump at Bowles doing his best "Oops... I Did it Again" after assuming the role of Leo, a New York City hairdresser. When he was finished, L.A. Reid said: "I love your swagger, Leo. You're fly man, you're fly. The whole thing, it's fly...I'm gonna have to say no today. But I did enjoy it."

· Vogue Releases Hamish Bowles's X-Factor Tryout Video [The Cut]
· Vogue Editor Hamish Bowles Auditioned for Simon Cowell's The X Factor By Singing Britney Spears' "Oops!... I Did It Again" [Racked]