Louis Walsh has admitted that he's been "working so hard" that he hasn't had time to listen to Niall Horan's debut solo single, This Town.
The X Factor judge told Tracy Clifford on 2fm: "I actually haven't heard it. I've been working so hard I haven't heard it!"
However, Walsh went on to say: "Best of luck to him, lucky guy, right time, right place."
Walsh was very positive about the news that Horan's fellow One Directioner Liam Payne has just signed a record deal, saying: "He's a great writer, I think he might surprise us honestly."
When questioned by Clifford on recent reports that Walsh said that One Direction were "monsters", the music mogul explained: "Not exactly monsters, but they got it all so quickly. They showed up, Simon [Cowell] put them together, Cowell never gets the credit for some of these things - he literally made it all happen for them.
"He got them the best songwriters, the best producers, and they were the luckiest five people in the whole world. Best of luck to them."
Louis Walsh says One Direction are "not exactly" monsters but they "got it all so quickly"
The famously outspoken X Factor star also revealed that he has had a "bad experience in the past" with a girlband, who he refused to name.
"It's very hard to get a girlband to really get on well, in the history of girlbands I know what really goes on.
"They all start off being friends, then somebody becomes more famous and it's not easy. Even with the Sugababes, there was only three of them, and they had three different line-ups because they couldn't get on! I know every girlband in the world, they're always in competition."
He later added, in a thinly veiled Spice Girls reference, that girlbands "fall out when they become really famous and somebody marries a footballer, or somebody marries a popstar, it's then that jealousy sets in."
