14 DAY TRIAL // Louis Walsh is reportedly very furious with how Cheryl Cole is getting preferential treatment on X Factor – but it’s just now that he’s letting her know, telling it to her face.
Following the fiasco that followed the judges’ house stage, when audiences rose against Cole for axing Gamu Nhengu, Walsh has started to realize that, indeed, his initial suspicions were accurate.
However, it was just recently that he let her know it, yelling at her that this was not her show and that he too was entitled to have an opinion, the Daily Mail reports.
“Privately, Louis Walsh has been seething about Cheryl Cole for weeks – like many on the X Factor, he believes she is given preferential treatment at every turn,” the tab writes.
“And on Saturday night, when she implored him to give Katie Waisell, one of her finalists, a chance, hostilities were openly declared,” says the Mail.
Reportedly, Walsh lost his temper completely and yelled at Cheryl that, “I have an opinion. It’s not all about you, Cheryl!”
Next day came another instance when the Louis made it a point that he was not happy with having to play Cheryl’s game – or seeing the others do it on a regular basis.
“On Sunday, on ITV2’s The Xtra Factor, the row continued. Presenter Konnie Huq read out a viewer’s question asking: ‘Do you get jealous because Cheryl gets all the attention?’” the Mail reports.
“Oh she always gets the attention, she’s the nation’s sweetheart,” Walsh reportedly said in bitter tone. Hostilities didn’t stop here either.
“And yesterday he told X Factor magazine: ‘I’m fed up listening to her! It’s not her show’,” the Mail further writes.
According to the same publication, what irks Louis Walsh and others the most is the fact that, aside from getting preferential treatment, Cheryl is also showing signs that she’s losing “it” – such is the case of the Gamu incident.
“He’s been bubbling with rage. He thinks Simon Cowell unfairly helps her out – to the extent of picking the songs for her contestants to sing,” a source says of Louis for the same tab.
“What really gets Louis’s goat is that she does this poor-little-me act but inside there’s a heart of stone,” the insider dishes.