Int:
Your 11-year-old daughter must have been mortified that you turned down Cowell’s offer…
Noel:
Oh, she went ballistic. “Why won’t you do it, Dad? Why?” We were watching it the other night, and some f*cking idiot was on, crying and that, and I said, “She’s sh*t.” My daughter said, “Well, if you were on the panel, you could’ve told her that, couldn’t you? But no. Too cool for The X Factor, aren’t you, Dad?” [Laughs] I was like, “Aren’t you supposed to be in f*cking bed?”