Cowell: 'I should have called Louis'

Simon Cowell has admitted that he should have called Louis Walsh to tell him he had been sacked from The X Factor.

Cowell has been criticised for failing to inform Walsh personally that he would not be asked to serve as a judge on the new series of the TV singing contest.

He told The Sun: “I should have called Louis - he has every reason to believe he’s been stabbed in the back. At some stage we are going to have a conversation and I’ll see how he feels.

“But he’s got to get off his chest what he wants to get off his chest - he thinks I stabbed him in the back.”