Cat Deeley not in talks for US X Factor

Cat Deeley not in talks for US X Factor
Cat Deeley not in talks for US X Factor (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Cat Deeley has claimed she hasn't been approached to present the US version of The X Factor. The So You Think You Can Dance host said there was no truth to newspaper reports that she and Dermot O'Leary were being lined-up to front the prime-time show when Simon Cowell brings it to America. "I don't know a thing about it, not a thing," the presenter insisted at a special party in Hollywood, where her close friend Matthew Williamson was being named Britweek Designer Of The Year. But Cat joked she'd be willing to take Simon's calls if he wanted a chat. "You never know, providing I'm not chatting to someone else," she laughed. The glamorous presenter said she was a big fan of Dermot. "I love Mr O'Leary, I've been a big, big fan of Mr O'Leary's since I worked with him - which is going to really give my age away - but probably about 10 years ago," she said. "I think it was the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party or something like that, and we had a blast, so I've always been a fan of Mr O'Leary."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.