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.”

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