Louis Walsh has ended his lengthy feud with pop star Cheryl declaring she's "not perfect, but she's nice".
Louis Walsh has opened up about his feud with Cheryl
The 71-year-old music manager fell out with Cheryl when he was managing her band Girls Aloud and they had a tense relationship when they later worked together on Simon Cowell's reality TV singing show 'The X Factor' with the pair often trading insults - but Louis has admitted he actually quite likes Cheryl even though she was quite "smug" during their time on the series.
Louis made the confession during an episode of 'Celebrity Big Brother', saying of 'The X Factor': "We [the judges] took it so ... serious, and we all wanted to win.
"We were pretending it was about the show, we all wanted to win. And we were all trying to upstage each other with songs and performance ...
"I really have to breathe for this, because we took it so seriously. We were in the final and it was [Cheryl's act] Alexandra Burke and [Louis' act] JLS so I thought I'm gonna get Westlife, we’ll do ‘Flying without wings’ and divvy it up between them, dah de dah de dah.
"Simon loved Cheryl, what ... did he do? He got her Beyonce, it was all over ... Cheryl was, she was kinda smug with me, I wanted to beat her as well."
However, he went on to admit he's actually quite fond of Cheryl, adding: "She’s not perfect but she’s nice.
"She’s a good girl, she’s good. She’s had a lot of negativity but I like her. She doesn’t know that, I like her more than she likes me."
Louis previously admitted the pair no long speak. In an interview with Ladbrokes Live last year, he said: "I don't have a relationship with Cheryl, I don't bother.
"I haven't seen her, I haven't heard from her. We didn't get on great on 'X Factor' because she didn't get the fun of it. She didn't understand that side of it."
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