Adele needs to work harder, according to Louis Walsh

Adele at the Grammy Awards

The pop manager - who is a judge on the 'The X Factor' UK - thinks the 'Skyfall' singer should be working on a new album rather than tending to her son, who was born last month, so she can
capitalize on her phenomenal worldwide success.

In an interview with the new issue of Q magazine, he said: "If I had someone like Adele, no way would she not be working now. Fine, have a baby, but then get back out there before they forget who you are! She'd be on every other TV show and there'd be another album ready. Work the room! That's my philosophy."

Louis, 60, also thinks he could have helped save Amy Winehouse, who died in July 2011 at the age of just 27 from accidental alcohol poisoning.

Amy's substance abuse and troubled personal life meant she never properly followed up her seminal 2006 album 'Back to Black' and the pop impresario believes he could have helped stop her from self-destructing.

Louis said: "Someone should have told Amy the truth. Drugs don't work unless you're Keith Richards. She was an enormous talent who has made the most important album of the last 20 years. But come on, one album and then you do what you want? No, no, no. If I manage you, you're working so hard you don't have time for drugs. You'll be crying out for sleep. I'm a great believer in old school managers who take charge."

Among the acts Louis has managed to chart success are Westlife, Boyzone, Girls Aloud, JLS and Samantha Mumba.

Robert Pattinson got into an argument with Adele when he tried to give her career advice

The 'Twilight Saga' star revealed he was at a party when he said "the most ridiculous thing" ever to the 'Someone Like You' hitmaker, advising her to reach for her goals, and woke up the next morning regretting his words.

Speaking on Canada's 'George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight', he explained: "Actually I had this argument with Adele, which is probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever said. I was saying, 'You know, you can really just like reach for it,' and she was like, 'You do realize I am like the biggest-selling female artist ever?'

"And I just for some reason just decided to get into an argument with her.

"I woke up the next day really regretting the whole thing."

Robert - who is dating his 'Twilight Saga' co-star Kristen Stewart - also claimed his vast fame hasn't stopped him from meeting new people because he isn't very sociable anyway.

He said: "I've always been like this. I'm one of those people who is dying to go to the party and then when I get there I just hang out in the corner with the people I came with, not talking to anybody else anyway.

"I have this fantasy that if I wasn't famous I'd be out meeting random people on the street but that's not true. Most of the time you try to avoid random people on the street whether you're famous or not."