X Factor star Louis Walsh has revealed that the judges' houses featured in the talent show are not their real homes.

The 24 artists hoping to make it into the final are invited to jet off around the world to visit their respective mentors at their homes.

Simon Cowell was shown on the balcony of a mansion in Marbella, with an expensive sports car parked outside and Sharon Osbourne was filmed at a huge property in Los Angeles.

Louis was featured in a luxurious Dublin townhouse and Dannii Minogue, the newest addition to the judges line-up, was shown in an Ibizan villa.

But Irish music mogul Walsh confessed : "That wasn't my house. That wasn't Sharon's house or Dannii's house or Simon's house either.

"Sharon sold her house to Christina Aguilera, so that was a rented house. Mine was a rented house. I wouldn't have had all that rubbish in my house - the stuff on the walls and the lights and all that."

But a spokeswoman for the popular show insisted viewers had not been deceived.

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

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