In another X factor scam story, Louis Walsh has admitted that the houses in which they film the final bootcamp stage of the show, are not actually the judges houses as billed.

On The Graham Norton show, Louis revealed: “That wasn’t my house. That wasn’t Sharon’s house or Dannii’s house or Simon’s house either.

“Sharon sold her house to Christina Aguilera, so that was a rented house. Mine was a rented house. I wouldn’t have had all that rubbish in my house – the stuff on the walls and the lights and all that.”

A spokesperson for the ITV show said: “The contestants are invited to a house. We call them the judges’ houses, not the judges’ homes. Sharon had only just moved in to her new home and hadn’t even unpacked so we couldn’t have filmed it there.

“We have never said they are the judges’ real homes and it has been this way for the past four years.”