Walsh compares X Factor star to Fred West
X Factor judge Louis Walsh has hit out at finalist Steve Brookstein, saying he looks like serial killer Fred West.
Walsh shocked Fern and Phil on ITV1’s This Morning when he likened Steve to the murderer who turned 25 Cromwell Street into a “House of Horrors”.
“I think he’s just a very average singer. He just stands there and smiles. He’s like Fred West,” he said.
“Fred West?” gasped presenters Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield. Walsh replied: “That’s who he looks like.”
Steve, managed by Simon Cowell, is up against Walsh’s protégés G4 in this Saturday’s final.
The Irish judge said of his classical hopefuls: “These guys were buskers on the street. They want this so badly and they deserve it. They have the X Factor. They don’t just stand there and smile like that – they perform.”
The two acts will battle it out to land a lucrative recording contract.
Sligo rocker Tabby Callaghan was voted off the show on Saturday.
