LOUIS WALSH: X Factor Exit U Turn?

<p>Just for a moment try to imagine X Factor without Louis Walsh.</p> <p>by Entertainment Newsdesk | 25th October 2013</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4600808201.jpg" width="460" height="690" alt="Louis Walsh | ITV" title="Louis Walsh | ITV"/></p> <p></p><p>Louis Walsh 61, the longest serving judge on the UK's favourite <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/tags/XFACTOR">Karaoke competition</a> is having 'so much fun' he's rethinking his comments on leaving.</p><p></p><p>During an interview with the magazine TV Times, the boyband mentor of <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/tags/UnionJ">Union J</a> said that he thought that this series might be his last (collective ahhhhh....)</p><p></p><p>However it seems as though he's backtracking on his statement. In a new TV interview with Jonathan Ross, set to air this weekend, Walsh was asked whether he was going to leave, he said:</p><p></p><p>'Well, I said I was. But I'm having so much fun this year, I might stay.'</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/tags/GaryBarlow">Gary Barlow</a> on the other hand definitely wants out. </p><p></p><p>We’re left wondering whether Louis’s acts are the reason why he has chosen to stay? He’s currently mentoring the boys: <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/Interview-Sam-Callahan/5999894">Sam Callahan</a>, the little one and the hairy one... We forget their names... We jest it's Nicholas and Luke... All the boys are anticpated to do very well this year.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So if the show returns next year, who would you like to see as judges? </p><p></p><p></p><p> </p>