Cowell: Louis and Cheryl ‘never liked each other’

The X Factor’s Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and Louis Walsh “have never liked each other”, Simon Cowell has said.

Cowell, talking to Richard Arnold on Good Morning Britain, kept mum on whether Walsh would be returning to this year’s X Factor judging panel: “I’m not sitting there in the dark going ’You know what, today I’ll fire Louis’. It is what it is, you know. But it does irritate me sometimes, thinking I’m not the only person making this decision.”

Cheryl and Walsh recently had a war of words on Twitter after he told Heat magazine: “Cheryl wasn’t great last year, she’s sometimes lazy and lacks energy. She needs to give more, she can give so much more.”