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Louis Walsh

September 2021

  • Betley, Cheshire, UK. 15th August, 2015. Former Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding performs live at Signal 1's 'Total Access Live' held at Betley Court Farm, near Crewe, Cheshire. Credit: Simon Newbury/Alamy Live News<br>F0GMEY Betley, Cheshire, UK. 15th August, 2015. Former Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding performs live at Signal 1's 'Total Access Live' held at Betley Court Farm, near Crewe, Cheshire. Credit: Simon Newbury/Alamy Live News

    Sarah Harding obituary

    Girls Aloud singer who later wrote a memoir about her rackety life as a pop star and her cancer diagnosis

September 2017

  • Louis Walsh: ‘I’m always happy. Ask Simon Cowell.’

    The Q&A
    Louis Walsh: ‘Which book changed my life? My chequebook’

    The X Factor judge on growing up in Ireland and why the show keeps him awake at night

June 2016

  • Louis Walsh ad

    Lost in showbiz
    Louis, Nicole and Sharon – has Simon found X Factor’s ‘greatest hits’?

    The music mogul has raided the show’s back catalogue in a change to the judging panel that doesn’t sound at all like he’s trying to save a sinking ship

April 2016

  • End of the road … the 2015 X Factor team.

    Surely, finally, this is the end for The X Factor

    Cheryl’s left, Louis Walsh is threatening to return – and even if the show does by some miracle survive, it will have to compete with The Voice. Will someone put The X Factor out of its misery?

October 2015

  • Simon Cowell greets the contestants at his ‘haunted’ house

    Lost in showbiz
    Simon Cowell says he’s seen a ghost – is he losing his powers?

    The once-mighty X Factor supremo is spooked. The proof: he’s talking about bringing back Louis Walsh

September 2015

  • Could Lil' Louis be the answer? Last year's line-up featuring Simon Cowell, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Mel B and Louis Walsh.

    The X Factor is in trouble – and Simon Cowell thinks Louis Walsh is the answer!

    Despite the addition of new judges Nick Grimshaw and Rita Ora, it still feels like nothing has changed on The X Factor – surely the plan to bring back Walsh won’t help

August 2015

  • Simon Cowell laughs off the ratings threat from Strictly Come Dancing.

    X Factor's Simon Cowell laughs off ratings threat from Strictly line-up

    ‘If it’s us versus Peter Andre, I’m going to put my money on us’, says presenter, whose ITV judging panel includes Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw

May 2015

  • The X Factor judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Mel B and Louis Walsh.

    Lost in showbiz
    Jilted Louis Walsh’s post X Factor role – pop music’s troll-in-chief

    After getting a ‘no’ from Simon Cowell, the pen-pointing pop manager has decided against a dignified silence. Instead, he’s gone rogue



  • Louis Walsh

    Lost in showbiz
    How will X Factor replace Louis Walsh? Just leave it to Simon Cowell

    The judge’s departure will leave a hole, but the Karaoke Sauron has a few tricks up his sleeve
  • Ex-factor? Louis Walsh ends his time on X Factor after 11 years.

    TV and radio blog
    Louis Walsh leaves X Factor: 'This is his chance to be more than a performing monkey'

    Was he pushed or did he jump? After being a fixture of the judging panel, Louis Walsh looks set to join Dermot O’Leary in the ex-Factor camp. But he should see this as the beginning of something, rather than the end?

October 2014

  • Stereo Kicks

    Stereo Kicks: when bands have too many members

    The X Factor group are an unwieldy eight members strong, but that’s nothing compared to Japan’s AKB48

August 2014

  • X Factor

    TV and radio blog
    Is 2014 the year The X Factor finally stops being rubbish?

    Stuart Heritage: The talent show has been out of puff for years, but with a new judging lineup and a revised voting system, this could be a chance to revisit former glories

July 2014

  • X Factor Judge Cheryl Cole

    Media Monkey
    X Factor hopefuls put on hold as judges take a break

    Media Monkey: Cheryl Cole got married and fellow judges Mel B, Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell all went on their hols

June 2014

  • Mel B friom

    TV and radio blog
    Mel B joins The X Factor: it's the strongest judging lineup in years

    The former Spice Girl's past turn as a judge was a true revelation of splenetic anger. Provided she doesn't keel over in a rage-induced seizure, there's a good chance she could prove the salvation of this ailing show

April 2014

  • Greenslade
    The Sun apologises to Louis Walsh, on page 2, for a page 1 'fix' story

    But was paper's clarification prominent enough?

March 2014

  • X Factor

    Lost in showbiz
    Reports from the frontline of the X Factor war mirror the tensions in Britain's coalition government

    Marina Hyde: David Cameron is Simon Cowell, George Osborne is Cheryl Cole, but the big question is: who is the political equivalent of Louis Walsh?

November 2013

  • The X Factor

    Music blog
    X Factor 2016: what can we expect?

    With Simon Cowell extending the UK series for another three years, Michael Cragg takes a look into a future of changing judges, social media courses and Matt Cardle's garage

August 2013

  • 'X Factor' press launch

    Simon Cowell snubs X Factor role – but he's glad it's made him 'loads of money'

    ITV talent show's creator makes fleeting appearance at launch but will keep an eye on viewing figures for revamped show. By Josh Halliday
  • SHOWBIZ XFactor 11

    Pass notes
    The X Factor: 10 glorious years

    The TV talent contest that gave us One Direction, Leona Lewis and that binman from Eurovision celebrates its birthday with an all-new format. Only problem is that it's just like the old one
  • Louis Walsh

    TV and radio blog
    Louis Walsh: The X Factor loses its greatest talent

    Fake feuds with Sharon Osbourne, befriending Britney Spears and championing Jedward – a tribute to the man who made the show entertaining

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