Simon Cowell is reportedly planning on making a very significant change to the voting system on the X Factor.

According to The Sun the X Factor boss is set to abolish all voting charges in the UK in order to involve younger viewers.

An insider said: "Simon is determined to introduce free voting this year because it will reinvent the show.

"It means millions more young people will be able to vote on favourite websites like Twitter.

"Viewers will feel more engaged and want to continue watching each week when they know their opinion will count."

Apparently a lot of thought has gone into the decision with people behind the scenes at the show spending a lot of time researching which of the contestants would have won year on year if voting had been free.

"We crunched the numbers and worked out that making voting free would create very different winners," the insider continued.

"We believe Sam Bailey would have been beaten by Luke Friend who only ended up coming third.

"One Direction would have beaten Matt Cardle in 2010 and Olly Murs would almost certainly have received more votes than Joe McElderry in 2009.

"It will help us create champions more popular with younger people who wouldn't necessarily have been prepared to pay to vote."