David Walliams: I'd love to judge The X Factor!

David Walliams: I'd love to judge The X Factor!
David Walliams: I'd love to judge The X Factor!

Comedian David Walliams has said that he has a secret ambition to be a judge on The X Factor - but only if he can sit next to Simon Cowell. The funnyman - whose presents the new Sky One show Wall Of Fame - confessed that he would love to take the seat vacated by Cheryl Cole, if Cowell returned to the judging panel of the series. "I'd take part in The X Factor if I could have the seat next to Simon," David said. "That would be my condition. I’d like to be in the Cheryl Cole seat. He usually has the person he fancies sitting next to him." However he admitted he might struggle when it came to actually judging the auditionees on a reality show. "I actually don’t know if I could judge people’s talent," David said. "I don't know if I've got enough talent myself, I still think I'd find it hard to say no to people. "Simon didn’t ever need to be liked whereas a performer generally wants the approval of the public, especially if you're a comedian. So if you have to say no and start getting booed by audiences, it can be tricky. But I don’t know, maybe one day I’ll do one."

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.