Grimmy’s got the X-Factor!

NICK GRIMSHAW: got the X Factor

OLDHAM-BORN Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw is expected to join the judging panel of TV’s “The X Factor”, according to sources close to the show.

The DJ, who presents the BBC station’s breakfast show, is believed to be in line to take the place left by the absence of long-time judge Louis Walsh.

Show supremo Simon Cowell said he wants on the panel a judge who “loves” music. One newspaper reported Cowell as saying: “Nick loves artists and music, that’s what I love about him.”

Grimshaw, a former pupil at Our Lady’s School in Royton, took over the Radio 1 breakfast show from Chris Moyles in 2012 but has lost hundreds of thousands of listeners as the station has attempted to attract a younger audience.

A move to join the ITV talent show would make it difficult to stay at the helm of one of BBC radio’s flagship shows.

Another name in the running for the judges is Rita Ora, who has appeared as a judge on rival BBC show “The Voice”.