If Simon Cowell says it's OK, then it's OK with me.
The music mogul stood up to defend Ashlee Simpson, meanwhile, who was recently caught out lip-synching on a Saturday Night Live performance.
He added: "Why should you have to do something substandard just for the sake of being real? If it sounds better with the vocal you recorded, why shouldn't people listen to that? There's almost a witch-hunt mentality about people miming."