High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! X Factor, the Icelandic version of the popular British television show The X Factor premiered Reykjavik on November 17, 2006. The host is actress Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir. The judges are talent agent and businessman Einar Bárðarson, rock musician Elínborg Halldórsdóttir and pop singer Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson. Einar and Páll Óskar were both judges in Idol stjörnuleit, the Icelandic version of Pop Idol. The finals were held in Vetrargarðinum (roughly translated as Wintergarden) which is in Smáralind, the largest shopping center in Iceland. Winner of the competition was Faroese singer and hair dresser, Jógvan Hansen.