Noel Gallagher has revealed he turned down the chance to be an X Factor judge.

The former Oasis star said he was approached by show supremo Simon Cowell.

Gallagher said: “I know him and he was going ‘we want you to be on it’. I was going ‘you don’t really want me on it – I won’t put anyone through, and I can’t have people round my house crying in the kitchen when I don’t put them through because they’ll frighten the cat. And the cat can’t be frightened.”

Gallagher said he would have made a good judge, however, adding: “I was watching it on Saturday actually, and I managed to pick everybody they put through to the live finals.”

He said his daughter Anais, 11, was upset when he refused to take up Cowell’s offer.

He said: “She went into a rage when she found out I’d turned it down. So we’re watching it Saturday night and I was saying ‘that fat idiot – he’s rubbish, get him off’. And she looked at me and she gave me a withering look and said ‘well, you could have told him that yourself, couldn’t you?’ And I was like oh ... get to bed.”

But he added that he would not reconsider.

He said: “No, no, no it’s not for me, no, I couldn’t.”

Meanwhile, it has emerged that X Factor judges will be sending their own acts home this weekend - with four due to leave on Sunday night.

Gary Barlow, Louis Walsh, Tulisa Contostavlos and Kelly Rowland will have to make the agonising decision to each lose one of the acts they have been mentoring.

Producers had promised a big twist to kick off the live segment of the series to keep the show "fresh".

It means there will be no public vote to decide the contestants who are given the chop - just the judges.

The wannabes were informed only yesterday with judges explaining it is to ensure they are up the task of performing on-stage.

Louis Walsh said "it's all to play for" and show bosses hope the new twist will encourage the acts to "step up a gear to the live stage".

Contestants looked shocked as they were told the news with Frankie Cocozza, Kitty Brucknell and girl group Rhythmix looking most surprised. But judges were given a round of applause after they had explained it to the final 16.

Each judge will put three of their four acts through to next week's show.

Barlow told them: "There's going to be no public vote - instead each judge must vote off one of their acts.

"This is the X Factor stage - it's one thing singing by the pool but it all changes here. This is where stars are born, like Leona - it's all going to feel very different on Saturday."

And Tulisa assured them that they will be watching them all with fresh eyes: "Please understand all of you that none of us have made our decision.

"It's a clean slate and we are making our decision as if we have never seen you before."

The acts will be seen in the first live show of the series on ITV1 at 7.30pm.

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