Laura Fox
Sharon Osbourne will discuss her feud with her X Factor co-judge Dannii Minogue during Monday’s Celebrity Big Brother, 14 years after the pair’s historic clash on the ITV show.
The TV star, 71, has already made headlines worldwide with her outspoken viewers on stars including James Corden and her longtime co-judge Simon Cowell.
But in Monday’s episode Sharon will discuss her history with Dannii, with a short clip of the exchange shown during Sunday’s episode of Late and Live.
The pair were judges on The X Factor together in 2007, but allegedly clashed over Dannii’s relationship with Simon. Sharon quit the show the following year.
David Potts asked Sharon whether it was ‘awkward’ working with Dannii on the show, and Louis Walsh added: ‘Wouldn’t we be standing there, Sharon, and nobody talking?’
Laughing, Sharon said: ‘That was so f*****g tough,’ and Louis admitted that there was a similarly bad atmosphere ‘every season.’
Sharon explained that during the live shows, as soon as the cameras started rolling, she would grab Dannii’s hand and hold it in the air.
‘I grabbed her hand and went like this, when the doors opened, and she’s like trying to (let go) but I’d push her up,’ she said.
But Sharon appeared to have moved on from her feud with Dannii, saying: ‘Yeah she’s alright, she’s alright.’
Sharon and Dannii Minogue made no secret of their dislike for each other during their time together on X Factor as they embroiled in a public spat.
Dannii revealed at the time that Sharon screamed abuse at her in her dressing room and reduced her to tears just minutes before she was due on stage.
After Dannii joined the show, stories circulated in the press about how Sharon was utterly distraught that Dannii had been made a judge and feared it meant she herself was on the way out.
Storming into Dannii’s dressing room, she accused the Australian singer of speaking negatively about her to the press as she screamed: ‘I don’t need this! ‘I’m a mother, for f***’s sake, do you think I need all this s*** in my life?’
In 2013, Sharon spoke out about the feud as she branded the time she spent with Dannii on the ITV1 talent show as ‘unbearable’, ‘intolerable’ and ‘an odious chore’.
In an extract of her new book Unbreakable, serialised in The Sun, she said: ‘Outwardly, Dannii seemed all, “Ooh, I love kids and puppies”. But in my opinion she was dark, very dark. What you saw was definitely not what you got.’
After quitting The X Factor, Sharon told Piers Morgan on his Life Stories that she couldn’t work with Dannii.
She said: ‘I didn’t hate her because hatred is very close to love and takes a lot of emotion and I don’t have that time for her.
‘She was like an insect, a mosquito that wouldn’t go away.’
Celebrity Big Brother continues tonight at 9pm on ITV1, followed by Late and Live at 10pm on ITV2 and ITVX.
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