'BGT, who cares?': Louis Walsh slams Simon Cowell and thinks he's Simon Cowell has lost his 'instinct'

Louis Walsh thinks Simon Cowell has lost his "instinct".

The 73-year-old star has hit out at his old friend and X Factor boss and insisted no one cares about Simon's programme Britain's Got Talent anymore.

Louis - who was a guest judge on Britain's Got Talent in 2010 - told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “BGT, who cares?! It’s not what it was.

“Back in the old days it was ­pulling in 12 million and the whole country cared who won.

“Now it doesn’t feel like that, who even won last year?

“Cowell was incredible in his prime, I just don’t think he’s got that same instinct now."

The Celebrity Big Brother star admitted he is no longer in contact with Simon as he blasted his entourage, including the 66-year-old star's fiancee Lauren Silverman, the mother of his son Eric, 11.

Louis added: “He’s surrounded by people who won’t tell him the truth anymore...

"He’s surrounded by fakes.

“He’s a family man now, Lauren’s in charge of his diary, and his phone, I’ve not heard from him in years.”