This evening on Live From Studio Five, music mogul and ex-Pop Idol judge, Pete Waterman, held nothing back when commenting on Simon Cowell’s ruthlessness following the shock decision to go to deadlock on Sunday’s X Factor, resulting in Welsh favourite, Lucie Jones being booted off the show.

Waterman said: “I think everybody’s got the show wrong, there is only one star in the show and that’s Simon Cowell. It’s the Simon Cowell show and that’s what people watch, all the rest is irrelevant.”

“I believe that you know, when the producer or director talks to Simon ten minutes before he goes off air, the director says come up with something that we can keep running until Saturday night and he just drops it in.”

On Jedward: “When Simon gets that 18 million audience and he says thank you very much lads, it will be see you later, you’ve served your purpose. Then they’ll go round the clubs, for you know three grand, they’ll make a good living. They’ve got no talent, they can’t sing, they can’t dance.”

Discussing the fellow music mogul, he said: “I spotted in Simon a ruthlessness which I’ve never seen anywhere. Simon is, he has one fixation and that’s being successful and he’ll cut through anything, you know.”

“Well in Pop Idol of course everybody forgets that in the first series of Pop Idol I was the bad guy and got all the fan mail and then suddenly Simon did a quick change when he saw how much fan mail I was getting.”

Live From Studio Five, week nights at 6:30pm on FIVE

The Apprentice’ star Kate Walsh might have got further in the boardroom, but her boyfriend (and fellow ‘Apprentice’ star) Phil Taylor insists he’s going to be the boss of the ballroom!

‘Strictly’ pro-dancer Karen Hardy is giving dance fans Phil, 29, and Kate, 27, a treat with some expert dance classes. The pair are tango’ing every day this week on Kate’s show, ‘Live From Studio Five’, but after witnessing his first attempt, Little Miss Showbiz wasn’t impressed!

‘It’s not as bad as it looks, honest! I hate to admit it, but Miss Twinkletoes Walsh is better than me at the moment, I can’t believe it because I’m a mint dancer in nightclubs!’ laughed Phil. ‘I promise by the end of the week it will be a different story!’

And even the skin-tight, sparkly lycra outfits aren’t enough to put him off going on next year’s show. ‘I’m a massive fan of ‘Strictly,’ he told me. ‘I’d love to be a contestant on the show, it’s a total institution!’

Wonder what Sir Alan would make of the sight of Phil in sequins and a spray tan?

Throughout the week the Live From Studio Five audience can follow Kate and her partner Philip Taylor’s progress as they are taught a series of challenging dance routines by Strictly Come Dancing star Karen Hardy. On Friday they will be facing their very own panel of judges, performing in front of Ian, Melinda and a special guest judge who will mark their skills.

Watch Phil and Kate in action on ‘Live At Studio Five’ every day this week at 6.25pm on C5.

Former Eternal singer Louise Redknapp is to front reality TV show ‘Farmer Wants A Wife.’

Redknapp will help farmers find love in the Five TV show and the channel’s controller Richard Woolfe told Broadcast that Louise could follow in the footsteps of Robson Green, in his show ‘Robson Green Extreme Fishing.’

He said: “We’ve said we want to put entertainment back at the heart of the channel, and I also want to get lots of star names.

“Robson Green has been fantastic – men and women love him.”

David Van Day always was a bad’un but to dump his girlfriend live on the Wright show is low even for him.

In the clip above, the I’m A Celebrity star tells Matthew Wright that his woman has been neglecting him by putting her work before his needs. In fairness I doubt the sanity of any woman who would date him in the first place but surely even the mentally challenged deserve more respect than this.

Props to Carrie Grant who told him off for his actions and showed him to be the fame hungry wannabe that he is!