There is no love lost between Louis Walsh and Girls Aloud after the music mogul claimed that they only “pretend to get on well in public”.

Walsh used to manage the group that originally formed as part of Pop Stars: The Rivals and claimed that when he worked with them, they used to constantly bicker about who was the skinniest.

He told The Daily Star Sunday in an interview: "I didn't enjoy working with Nadine, Kimberley, Nicola, Sarah or Cheryl either.

"They didn't get along with each other and hated me. I found their rivalry difficult to cope with. It's hard to get them to get on well.

"They all pretend to get on well in public, but underneath, all they want is to be the skinniest and go out with the most famous footballer and be in the middle of pictures and all that."

Walsh and the girls have been known to not get on well for some time now stemming from a comment that Cheryl Cole made claiming that Walsh had little to do with the group but still took a percentage of their earnings. In response, Walsh announced that their friendship was over.