Louis' Fake House Shock

Louis Walsh has admitted that the judges' houses seen in the X Factor are not their real homes at all.

Viewers saw the 24 hopefuls jet off around the world to perform for their respective mentors in Saturday's episode.

Simon Cowell invited his groups to a mansion in Marbella, where he was filmed surveying the grounds from his balcony with a luxury sports car parked outside.

Sharon Osbourne was filmed at a palatial property in Los Angeles, Dannii Minogue in an Ibizan villa and Walsh in a lavishly furnished Dublin townhouse.

However, a spokeswoman for the show insisted viewers had not been deceived, saying: "The contestants are invited to a house. We call them the judges' houses, not the judges' homes.”

"Sharon had only just moved in to her new home and hadn't even unpacked so we couldn't have filmed it there.”

"We have never said they are the judges' real homes and it has been this way for the past four years.”