Cowell crawls back to Walsh

After all that animosity earlier in the year, Simon Cowell's plans to unseat Louis Walsh from the X Factor judging panel have come unstuck as it turned out the replacement, Brian Friedman, didn't have a clue about the British charts and the sort of salad cream that the X Factor audiences traditionally squirt in their direction.

Which probably means that he was choosing people who could sing and had some personality.

So, Louis has been invited back on board, reckons the Mail. But surely his pride, his dignity, those would mean he could never go back to a role he was so publicly canned from...

oh, apparently he can.