Simon Cowell’s 150m ITV deal

They also revealed that the return of Nicole Scherzinger, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne on this year’s X Factor helped to seal the deal.

‘X Factor’s poor run previous year when it was out-performed by Strictly came at a bad time with a new deal being due.

Speaking to The Sun newspaper recently, Dermot said that he didn’t return for the money as it was never about the paycheck.

The deal comes after six months of talks and is said to involve Simon taking a personal pay cut from his £25 million fee as a judge and producer on the shows. But I always said, “If I find out they are talking to anyone else, I’m not going to play games, I’ll just go”.

He told The Sun: “I don’t have a God-given right to that job”.

Simon made a decision to mix up the ITV singing show previous year by bringing in Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw as judges.

Alesha, we are really holding out for you go back to the Mis-Teeq days and do the All I Want rap for us because we spent ages learning the words when we were younger, so it would make our lives complete. Part of me thought, “Good on you” but then I had to play politics with this other family.

The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent are reportedly set to stay on ITV up to 2020 in a new deal worth £150 million.

“No. A couple of people did but he didn’t”.

Simon said: “She was fantastic because she found her way through the back of the stage, got in front of us and that’s exactly the sort of person I like working with, someone who’s a bit naughty and breaks the rules”.

It is not the only out-of-the-ordinary antics to happen during the audition rounds, as viewers will also see the first-ever “X Factor” engagement happen on the show.

“I was in South Africa doing this BBC show for the best part of two months and that was nearly a blessing in disguise because it shielded me”.

“In her defence she got told she wasn’t going to be able to be seen that day”, he explained.