Dannii Minogue currently makes her living as a judge on hit British TV show The X Factor, alongside Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Cheryl Cole (she replaced Sharon Osbourne). Most of you probably read about this elsewhere, but the during the airing of a late November episode, Dannii got very emotional---to the point of tears. Here's a summary of what went down:

On the 23rd of November, during a live broadcast of The X Factor, Dannii broke down in tears and couldn't introduce one of her acts, Rachel Hylton. After Rachel's performance, it was revealed that fellow judge Louis Walsh had been the root cause of Dannii's tears having publically accused her of 'stealing' a song for Rachel to sing that he wanted for one of his acts JLS. That week, Louis had gone to the press and called Dannii "heartless" and that she should be sacked. Simon Cowell twice came to Dannii's defence, once in the main live show and then again in the ITV2 extra show, where he accused Louis of being childish. Simon went on to say Dannii was perfectly within her rights to choose whatever song she felt was best for her artist. Insiders believe Dannii's emotional moment on the show was the result of the unwarranted media backlash that had afflicted her since the arrival of Cheryl Cole on the show. Many fans of The X Factor flooded various online communities calling for Louis to be sacked or to make a public apology to Dannii. Simon ordered him to apologise live on air, but Dannii snubbed Louis' attempt at apologising. [Wiki]

Comment on this Bastardly entry »