Gone! Olly Murs reveals why he’s QUITTING X Factor after one series
Despite a last ditch effort to save The X Factor with a panel of new judges, a new hosting team and changes to the Boot Camp process, it seems Simon Cowell's long-running show is in trouble.
As well as watching the ratings plummet during the last series of the show, the music mogul is seeing his new recruits dropping like flies.
Just last week, Nick Grimshaw confirmed he would not be returning to the judging panel, and now – as was strongly rumoured on Friday – both Olly Murs and Caroline Flack have announced they too will not be back.
Both of them released statements via their reps, with Olly saying he wanted to turn his focus back to the music industry.
"This was an incredibly hard decision to make," he said.
"But my heart belongs to music and I want to concentrate 100% on making my next album and getting back to performing."
Caroline, meanwhile, thanked the ITV team for the "brilliant time" she had working on both The X Factor and The Xtra Factor.
While she may have insisted in today's statement that her time on the show was "just fantastic," she made no secret of how hard she found it to cope with negative criticism from the public during the most recent series of the show.
"I cried after the first live Sunday night," she admitted in a recent interview.
"The reaction was quite overwhelming because I didn’t think people would be talking about how I look, how I stand, how I walk, or how I laugh."
No word yet on whether Rita Ora will return, but we have our doubts already…
