Simon Cowell went "too far" with his crushing put-downs on The X Factor - admitting he was a "d***" and is "sorry".
The 66-year-old music mogul has faced a backlash in recent years over his jibes to aspiring singers on the TV talent show - which ran from 2004 until 2018 in the UK and between 2011 and 2013 in the US - and Cowell has now acknowledged he was too mean.