Louis Walsh has come under fire online after a 2014 live TV moment resurfaced on social media (Picture: ITV)
After Louis Walsh entered the Celebrity Big Brother last night, fans of the show have taken to social media with a ‘disgusting’ resurfaced video of the former X Factor judge.
The 2014 video shows Walsh, 71, touching Mel B inappropriately while appearing on the ITV2 X Factor spin-off show The Xtra Factor alongside Simon Cowell and Cheryl.
The clip has gone viral once again following Louis’ reappearance, as X user @harrybleakley2 shared it and wrote: ‘Are people forgetting that Louis did this several times to Mel B? Disgusting #CBBUK’
‘Whoa, that’s creepy. Wtf was he touching her ass; good for her calling him out on that,’ Lou Giddens said.
Meanwhile @S_Hussain_1999 wrote: ‘Louis Walsh, most famous for groping Mel B. Well done ITV for keeping him on your payroll.’
‘Not letting anybody forget Louis Walsh did this to Mel B. Disgusting man,’ said @AlexPeacheyy sharing the video.
In it, the X Factor just is seen groping Mel B (Picture: ITV)
She calls him out, dubbing his actions ‘inappropriate’ (Picture: ITV)
In the clip Walsh sits with his hand on the Spice Girl’s backside, and she looks around seemingly appalled, gesturing at it before interrupting host Sarah-Jane Crawford to call him out.
Visibly uncomfortable, she asked: ‘Why are you grabbing my butt?’
As Mel B moves away, Walsh laughs it off with a grin and replies, ‘I’m looking after Mel.’
She then looks at someone off camera and can be heard telling Walsh he was being ‘inappropriate’.
Walsh previously commented on the video, telling Today FM‘s Mario Rosenstock he did it as ‘a joke’.
‘We’d be sitting there all day on the couch doing TV, and I just grabbed her a*** as a joke,’ he said according to The Independent, adding: ‘She was very funny and you could say anything or do anything to her and I loved her, so I would just grab her for a laugh but it’s not PC anymore.’
The 71-year-old is on our screens once more (Picture: Mike Marsland/WireImage)
He entered the Celebrity Big Brother house on Monday 4 March (Picture: ITV)
‘Everybody is watching everybody, the papers, you can’t do anything on Twitter, you can’t say anything, you can’t say what you really feel because you’re going to offend somebody.’
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‘I’m not on anything, no Twitter, no Instagram, no Facebook, I’m too much of a loose cannon, I would say things I shouldn’t say in the middle of the night,’ he said.
‘I would do very well, I’d be really popular but I’d probably be sued.’
Louis is now in the Celebrity Big Brother house alongside former X-Factor judge Sharon Osbourne.
Other contestants include Nikita Kuzmin, David Potts, Bradley Riches, Zeze Millz, Marisha Wallace, Colson Smith, Fern Britton, Lauren Simon, Gary Goldsmith, Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Levi Roots.
On tonight’s episode Louis has become the first celebrity called to the Diary Room, but instead of ‘getting a b*****king’ he was asked to share his first impressions.
‘I like a lot of them,’ he commented of his housemates, saying there’s some ‘good people’ in the house, with Sharon being ‘the icing on top of the cake’.
Ahead of joining the rest of the house, Louis and Sharon were tasked with judging the housemates on first impressions and placing their least favourites in the ‘danger zone’ to be booted out.
In their secret meeting, Walsh had some strong words for Ibiza Weekender star David, calling him ‘a bit much’ with ‘too much fake tan’.
He also got very protective over his bed, telling Real Housewives of Cheshire star Lauren Simon to get ‘up, up, up!’ exclaiming the big double was his.
Metro.co.uk has contacted Louis Walsh’s reps for further comment.