Simon Cowell: 'I made wrong decisions'

Simon Cowell has admitted to making "wrong decisions" on this year's X Factor.

The judge, who is mentoring the Groups this year, conceded that the early departures of Diva Fever and FYD were partly his fault.

Speaking during the Q&A section on the Xtra Factor, the Syco boss said that he is still confident about his chances in the competition, commenting: "I’m still in this to win it. It doesn't matter if I've got all my groups in it or one group in it... One of mine [will win]"

When asked about the failures of two of his acts, he said: "You've got to have a rethink. There's no point sulking. I made wrong decisions.

"1 Direction and Belle Amie are both incredibly talented and I'm going to work harder on them. I don't give up easily."

Earlier today on ITV1 breakfast show Daybreak, Diva Fever criticised Cowell's choice of song, revealing that they were always unsure about performing Duck Sauce's 'Barbra Streisand'.

"Sometimes you are afraid to speak up because you think, you know, they might start thinking we're divas," said Joe Al-Smadi. "I mean we did express that we didn't like the song really to start off with. We thought because it's really new in the charts at the minute, and we thought a lot of people might not know it.

"And the target audience that we’re going for probably wouldn't know it - it’s more like the clubbers and students that know that song. But Simon said he had a vision for it and he said he thought we'd do really well with it."