X Factor creative director, Brian Friedman has admitted that, at times, he feels like the mother of John and Edward Grimes.

Friedman told this week’s heat magazine: “They’re like kids in an art class who have drawn an ugly thing, but their mother loves it.”

“I kind of feel like their mother. I create something really ugly and they perform it and I love it. It’s like babysitting.”

“They’re not singers and you would think that anyone who gets down to the final 12 of The X Factor would have some kind of voice, but they really don’t. I tell them the same, though, and they’re fine with it.”