Walsh backs Moyles for X Factor

Axed X Factor judge Louis Walsh is backing Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles as his replacement.

Walsh made a guest appearance on Moyles’ breakfast show this morning and told him: “I think you’d be a brilliant judge and I know Sharon likes you a lot.

“They should hire you. We should start a national petition to hire Chris Moyles for the X Factor. You’d be great for the show.”

Walsh and presenter Kate Thornton are being replaced for the next series.

“I was axed from the X Factor, stabbed in the back, just pushed aside really,” Walsh said.

“I’m absolutely gone and I didn’t know I was getting the chop at all. I was in Stockholm in a hotel when I got the phone call.”

He blamed Simon Cowell for giving him the boot.

“It’s his show. The buck stops with Simon. He hires and he fires and then he hides behind the ITV people,” said Walsh.

Moyles is 2/1 favourite with Ladbrokes to join the show.