MiaOW. Someone get Louis Walsh one fat saucer of milk, STAT.
The X-Factor judge has hit out against fellow Irishman Ronan Keating branding him a karaoke singer and a George Michael wannabe. Well that's one way to strike up an old feud, eh? Way back when in 2003, when Ronan presumed he was in a position to top the charts the world over, he dropped Louis as his manager. And for that it seems Louis has never forgiven him (apart from a brief hiatus when Stephen Gately tragically passed away).
You'd be forgiven for having forgotten entirely that it was Louis Walsh who founded Boyzone in the first place. Where there's money to be made off one of his projects, you'll usually find Louis talking them up 'til the cows come home, paying scant regard to whether they have talent or not. Hello, Jedward. But as soon the money stops going into his own back pocket, the claws well and truly come out.
In one of his most hypocritical and pot-calling-the-kettle-black statements ever, Louis said in an interview with The Times that the pair were "no longer on good terms", and that "he's a manufactured popstar who actually believed his own publicity."
Then, adding insult to injury, Louis added: "Ronan thought he was George Michael. He said he didn't want to be a karaoke artist. Well, that’s what he is."
Either Louis is just an arsehole or he's a really clever business man who knows that saying anything remotely controversial will land him in the headlines giving HIM the publicity he needs to justify his existence not only on the X Factor judging panel but in any other way he still feels he's relevant.*
*We realise we've just fallen straight into his cunning trap. DOH!