Don't think Titchmarsh did himself any favours by asking Meat to be brief with his comments - that's just asking for trouble!!
When Meat was announced as a judge on this I didn't think there was any chance that he'd perform a song from the new album (Cos he's a judge and they don't usually perform on such shows). However next week Katherine Jenkins is performing and also Meat has said that the 1st single from new album comes out in about 5 weeks, so there probably is a fair chance that he will get a chance to perform on it after all. Hope so anyway!
Also, in one of the interviews about the show he mentioned negotiations that went on with ITV and his management for doing this - wonder if there's any chance that there would be a TV special 'An audience with...' as part of the negotiations? There's been one for Lionel Richie, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart etc & I think Meat would be perfect for this kind of thing - be like storytellers again.