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Dermot O’Leary has opened up about his time hosting The X Factor as he shares the touching words and advice head judge Simon Cowell gave him<\/p>\n

08:16, 29 Apr 2025Updated 12:19, 29 Apr 2025<\/p>\n

\"DermotDermot opens up on working with Simon Cowell(Image: Photo by Ken McKay\/ITV\/REX\/Shutterstock )<\/p>\n

This Morning<\/a> host Dermot O’Leary has opened up about his time hosting The X Factor<\/a> – and why he’s more selective about what shows he fronts these days.<\/p>\n

Dermot has been in the business for almost three decades, having kicked off his career in 1998 when he fronted T4 in 1998. The 51-year-old isn’t slowing down anytime soon, as he’s set to host new game show, Silence is Golden<\/a> on U & Dave. The new show will see a chance for the audience to win a split of \u00a3250,000 – if they can just stay silent during hilarious comedy performances.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his choice to front the new show, Dermot said: \u201cIt wasn’t necessarily I wanted to do a comedy game show. I mean, I’m desperate for it to succeed. I’m passionate about it and I want to do another one, but so many things have to align for that to happen. So this was more about that it felt like it was something different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SimonDermot hosted The X Factor until 2018(Image: ITV \/ Fremantle \/ Syco)<\/p>\n

The star, who welcomed son Kasper with his wife Dee Koppang in 2020 <\/a>continued: \u201cThere’s a couple of jobs I’ve turned down since we’ve had Kasper that I would love to have done, but I’m not going to go away for the amount of time. Not unless he was with me. You\u2019ve only got one life.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of Dermot’s most memorable gigs was Saturday night prime-time show The X Factor, which he hosted from 2007 to 2014 and 2016 to 2018. He left after eight years in 2014, before returning a year later.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Simon Cowell<\/a>‘s involvement with his role, Dermot said: \u201cOn the live shows Simon always said to me, \u2018I\u2019m never going to touch a word of your script, never going to tell you what to say. I\u2019m paying you to go out and do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DermotDermot has been in the business since 1998(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe stuck to his word for 12 years and let me get on with it, which I enjoyed so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dermot and Simon reunited last week on the This Morning<\/a> sofa as Simon and Bruno Tonioli<\/a> sat down to speak about the upcoming Britain’s Got Talent<\/a> live semi-finals. However, things got awkward when Bruno Tonioli appeared to become frustrated on This Morning when asked about a contestant who was plucked from the talent show’s audience<\/a>, telling off host Alison Hammond<\/a> for being “nasty”.<\/p>\n

As Alison joked they had a “lie detector” on the show to make sure the moment wasn’t fixed, Bruno snapped: “Why do you always have to go for the nasty? It is not set-up my darling.”<\/p>\n

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