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November 19th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: John and Edward Grimes, louis walsh, Rhydian Roberts, X Factor, X Factor 2009

Rhydian has obviously been listening to Louis Walsh’s recent interviews and now he has insisted that John and Edward Grimes won’t last too much longer on The X Factor.
Rhydian, who finished second in the 2007 series of the show told The Guardian that the twins silliness is ‘wearing thin.’
Roberts said: “The twins are funny, but is it wearing thin now? I don’t mean that in a nasty way: I wish them the best of luck.”
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November 18th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Cheryl Cole, itv, louis walsh, Olly Murs, X Factor, X Factor 2009

X Factor judges Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh have reportedly tipped Olly Murs to win the show, despite the fact that neither are mentoring him.
The Mirror reports that during a secret poll for ITV2’s The Xtra Factor, both stars backed Olly Murs to win the series.
A source said: “Louis and Cheryl have both admitted to picking Simon’s act Olly. They think he’s the most likely winner. It’ll be tough for their own acts to take, but it’s the truth.”
November 18th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: itv, John and Edward Grimes, louis walsh, X Factor, X Factor 2009

Louis Walsh is pulling his support for John and Edward Grimes and on two separate occasions, has said that the boys are running out of time.
Last night Louis told Paul O’Grady that he’d be happy if the boys lasted two more weeks and speaking to Sky News today he said:
“This is it now, we are running out of time, it would be great if we could just make it through one more week,” Walsh said.
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November 17th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: itv, John and Edward Grimes, louis walsh, X Factor, X Factor 2009

X Factor judge Louis Walsh may just be showing the first signs that he doesn’t think Jedward can win this year’s X Factor.
On tonight’s Paul O’Grady show on Channel 4, when asked if the boys could win the series Louis answered:
“I don’t know. It’s up to the people at home. I’d love to get two more weeks with them. That would be fantastic. You know, there’s some really good talent left. I’m happy, Paul, that I’ve got this far.”
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November 17th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: itv, John and Edward Grimes, louis walsh, X Factor, X Factor 2009

X Factor fans are up in arms (again), this time about a breach of show rules by Louis Walsh.
Just hours before the voting lines closed on Sunday night, Louis Walsh sneaked John and Edward Grimes out of the X Factor compound for quite a lengthy interview with Sky News. Many say this gave the boys an unfair advantage over other acts that were banned from speaking to the media.
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November 16th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: dermot oleary, John and Edward Grimes, louis walsh, X Factor

Whilst recording an upcoming appearance on ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’, X Factor host Dermot O’Leary has reportedly been joking about John and Edward Grimes receiving death threats.
The Sun quotes O’Leary as saying: “John & Edward have received so many death threats we’ve had to close the phone lines. So please don’t call – your death threat won’t count, but you may still be charged.”
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November 15th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: dermot oleary, itv, louis walsh, X Factor, X Factor 2009

Louis Walsh made a lot of enemies on last week’s X Factor. Not only was he pictured giving the fingers to audience members but he also turned on the delectable Dermot O’Leary, after he dared to express some opinions on the X Factor contestants.
In his News of The World column today, Dermot has talked about the row and revealed that Louis branding him ‘just a presenter’ won’t stop him standing up to the Irish judge in the future.
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November 13th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: itv, John and Edward Grimes, louis walsh, X Factor, X Factor 2009

X Factor twins John & Edward Grimes are reportedly close to signing a record deal, according to their mentor Louis Walsh.
“Jedward will soon sign a record deal, there is huge interest in them and they’ll be making pop records and having the time of their lives,” Walsh told Sky News.
“As far as I’m concerned they have won already because they have proved Simon wrong. I’ll be happy if we get one more week but they can keep going and going.”
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November 11th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: itv, John and Edward Grimes, louis walsh, Simon Cowell, X Factor, X Factor 2009

In an interview given before Sunday’s X Factor results show, Louis Walsh admitted that he didn’t think John and Edward Grimes could win the show.
Louis was sure that if given the chance, Simon Cowell would vote the boys off the show. How wrong was he?
When asked if John & Edward could win, Walsh told The Daily Mail: “If I’m absolutely honest, I don’t think they can.
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November 9th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: itv, louis walsh, X Factor, X Factor 2009

Louis Walsh’s spokesperson has apologised after the judge flipped his fingers at the X Factor audience on last night’s show, see the picture here.
Louis got irate as the audience booed John and Edward Grimes, after their sing off performance of Robbie William’s Rock DJ.
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November 8th, 2009 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: louis walsh, X Factor, X Factor 2009

Found via our readers on Twitter, some excellent footage of lovely Louis Walsh giving a two-fingered salute to X Factor audience members who dared to boo at Jedward.
As we all know, Louis has become increasingly unhinged during this series of X Factor, not only for choosing the twin terrors in the first place, but by sticking by them through each travesty they call a performance.
This weekend, Walshie has been especially charming – he basically told Dermot O’Leary to shut up because he wasn’t a judge, merely a lowly presenter. Then a member of the public phoned Xtra Factor and he told her that there was “a reason I’m a judge and you’re sitting at home watching this on your TV”. Total egomaniac.
I don’t know what’s going on with Crazy Louis, I’m just hoping that when his head explodes, it happens on-screen.
November 3rd, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: itv, JLS, louis walsh, X Factor

JLS - X Factor 2008
JLS singer JB has insisted that contestants don’t need to have a “sob story” to succeed on ITV’s X Factor.
“We never had a sob story and still made it to the final.” He told Metro. “If people are asked about their lives, it doesn’t mean they’re the ones promoting their problems.”
“People have different motivations. It’s just part of why they’re doing it.”
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November 3rd, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: itv, John and Edward Grimes, louis walsh, X Factor, X Factor 2009

X Factor Judge Louis Walsh has insisted that twins John and Edward Grimes CAN win the X Factor and says that they are as entertaining as Madonna and Kylie Minogue.
Speaking The Daily Mirror the boys’ mentor said ‘I think the twins can win it. They’re not the best singers or dancers but they’re brilliant entertainers – Madonna and Kylie aren’t the best singers either but like the twins, they are great entertainers.’
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October 31st, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: itv, John and Edward Grimes, louis walsh, Simon Cowell, X Factor, X Factor 2009

Westlife singer, Shane Filan has let the proverbial cat out of the bag on the issue of X Factor twins, John and Edward Grimes.
Each week Simon Cowell sits in his judging seat of power and tells the nation how much he detests the boys and mocks their lack of singing talent. However Shane has confirmed what we suspected all along and told The Sun that it was actually Cowell’s idea to give the twins a place in the final 12.
Shane said: “We went with Louis to Simon’s house in LA and they took us to a room with a cinema and said, ‘We want to play you something.’
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October 29th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: louis walsh, X Factor, X Factor 2009

Louis Walsh has admitted that Boyzone have no immediate plans to perform together and said that the boys need time to grieve for their late bandmate, Stephen Gately.
Walsh told The Evening Herald: “They have lost a brother in Stephen and right now they are hurting. Coming back isn’t something that one member of the group can decide on their own – it has to be a group decision.
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