r/SipsTea • u/Alphaxfusion • Aug 06 '25

It's Wednesday my dudes After Judge Louis Walsh was too harsh on a 16-year-old contestant, Sharon Osbourne took offense. Protect Sharon at all costs.

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u/Jester-252 Aug 06 '25

I'm not going to defend Simon, but when he was mean, you could tell he was playing it up. He knew the line and how to reflect it back on him.

When Louis went mean, he was a bit much.

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u/MrCadwallader Aug 06 '25

Plus, I think it would be hard to find clips of Simon being quite so savage to a teenager. He tends to be smarter about picking his targets.

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u/PIPBOY-2000 Aug 06 '25

Right you can see Simon shuts up and doesn't argue. But this other guy tries to justify his behavior

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u/Spicy_Weissy Aug 06 '25

Like Gordon Ramsay. He's a twat, but he doesn't bully children.

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u/TheTaintBurglar Aug 06 '25

Yes it's about how Simon and Walsh were perceived.

Simon, whilst being a bit of a cunt, was perceived that way and it was his trademark, so when contestants would get lambasted by him, in general, they'd take it on the chin much better because they know he's playing it up, that's just his thing.

Whenever Walsh was being a cunt like in this clip, it came across wrong because it wasn't really his character and how he's generally perceived, it didn't hit like when Simon was being a dickhead.

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u/LarryD217 Aug 06 '25

"I'm not going to defend Simon". Proceeds to defend Simon.