This represented a 34% audience share, compared with the 2015 launch show which had initial overnight figures of 7.6 million people, giving them an audience share of 39%.
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Following his departure, the 64-year-old music manager has been calling Cowell nonstop to express his disappointment about the new format of the show.
And in 2014 Calvin admitted he and Simon had a “mutual agreement to stay away from each other”, adding: “As far as I’m aware, in fact definitely, I’m not allowed back on that show”.
Simon Cowell has revealed that Louis Walsh caused him sleepless nights. She chair-dances and is generally really annoying, but that’s good – every X Factor needs a pantomime villain.
On a different note, take a look below to get a fun behind-the-scenes look at the glam shoot featuring Simon, the judges, and host Dermot O’Leary in preparation for the new season.
Trying out for the judges recently was 51 year-old Eddie Lee from Glasgow and he was quick to tell the panel: “People often tell him he looks like Simon”.
We begin with the auditions as usual and this is always a good opportunity to see the rubbish singers as well as the good ones.
As a result, Harris is now reportedly in advanced talks to appear on the Judges’ Houses round of the show along with Nicole Scherzinger. Yet this is the X Factor’s central problem; if it is not going to take itself seriously, why should we?
Sharon went on to say that becoming a grandmother was “the best thing” that has happened to her in the past five years.
There is also a mullet-styled security guard who, at 41, has been making his own music for years but doesn’t quite manage to impress the panel with his self-penned piano dance ballad. I felt you and I don’t want to feel you again, ‘ he said.
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But it will face stiff competition for much of it run from Strictly Come Dancing on BBC One, which has been firmly ahead in the ratings in recent years.
