TV presenter Kate Thornton has revealed that she will never speak to Simon Cowell again, after he sacked her from the X Factor two years ago.

Simon had assured Kate that her job was safe, only then to break it to the newspapers that she was being replaced.

Thornton told Closer magazine: “I’ll never talk to Simon again. He fired me to create headlines without even telling me beforehand, when we had been good friends.

“Sharon and Louis Walsh really supported me, but at the end of the day it was a game of ‘Simon Says’ and he wanted me out.”

“I wouldn’t watch the show now because it would be like seeing your ex-boyfriend with his new girlfriend,” she added. “You don’t have feelings for them anymore, but you don’t want to see it.”