Marc Anthony is joining X-Factor as a celebrity mentor!

Marc Anthony is picking up where Jennifer Lopez left off. He’s joining a singing competition show. Don’t worry J.Lo, he’s not picking up where you left off at American Idol (although I think that would be a fantastic idea, just for bragging)… He’s actually going to be helping out the folks at X-Factor.

Marc is going to be the celebrity mentor for Simon Cowell’s contests. He’s got the ‘groups’ this year and Marc is going to help guide them and turn them into stars…. or boy bands or Spice Girls or something!

Justin Bieber is the celeb mentor for L.A. Reid’s group, the contestants that are 25 and older. And Nick Jonas is going to be helping out Demi Lovato with her group of the younger contestants.

Still no word on who is going to help mentor Britney Spears’ 17-24 year old contestants but I’m hoping they can get her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake to do it. That would be a fun match up! But I doubt that Jason Trawick or Jessica Biel would ever let that happen. They both seem to suck the fun out of everything.