X Factor bosses yesterday admitted to staging some scenes while filming for the new series, due to air this Saturday evening.

Some of the staged scenes include footage of Simon Cowell telling producers that something is not right with the current judging panel and that he wants Louis Walsh back.

However, ITV bosses insist that the scenes are not faked…as such. They claim not to be misleading viewers, rather, the cameras missed the original moments or scenes, but bosses deemed them important to the telling of the story and so had them reinacted and placed them in the correct sequence in the show.

Cowell said: “What you see is what happened. We don’t try and censor this show.

“I’ve always said we will allow viewers to look through the keyhole and that’s what we do.

“It’s raw and we don’t censor. It’s not a sanitised, make-believe show.”

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