05/12 Tales from the Tabs

One of the big stories in the Irish Mail on Sunday is the feud between X-Factor's Louis Walsh and Strictly Come Dancing's Bruce Forsyth. The BBC host gave out about Walsh's comments in April that Forsyth ‘shouldn’t even be alive at his age’ to the Strictly audience, saying, "Louis Walsh said I should be dead. He said in print that I should be dead by now. Can you believe that from a jumped-up karaoke judge?"

He continued, saying he thought that X-Factor "looks like a fireworks display with singers. It’s not my kind of thing. If I was still doing Play Your Cards Right I would love to have done the question, 'We asked 100 people if Simon Cowell turned up with lovebites all over his body would they be self-inflicted? Ninety-nine people answered Yes and the odd one out was Dale Winton – but only because he didn't understand the question'."

Louis Walsh responded to Forsyth's comments, saying "Bruce should just retire. His comments are the sign of old age. He’s too old to be on TV. He should just bow out gracefully now at the top of his game and go home to sit on his sofa and drink Horlicks."