And if he has had them syringed, according to Charlotte Church, he definitely needed to. She was quoted recently as saying “Is Louis Walsh deaf? He keeps putting people through who are dreadful.” And according to The Sun, Louis recently visited a clinic in Dublin to get them syringed and get his hearing “back to normal.” When questioned about the procedure in The Sun, Louis apparently said “I don’t know if it’s to do with the singing I’ve had to put up with at The X Factor auditions. It was just a minor thing but it makes a difference in my job.”

Perhaps if he’d had them syringed at the start of the auditions, certain ’singers’ wouldn’t have made it through to boot camp.