The claws are already out between Nicole Scherzinger and Sharon Osbourne and it’s only the audition stages…
We know this year’s X Factor is going to be the best yet. Why? Because the judges are already bitching, sniping and plotting each others’ downfall. There’s no more pretending to be nice – on or off camera.
Now can reveal battle lines have already been drawn up, with Sharon Osbourne and Nicole Scherzinger at loggerheads. And it couldn’t have been more obvious than during an audition in Dublin on 2 July, with our spy revealing that the pair spent most of the day bitching about one another.
‘The atmosphere was really intense,’ our insider tells us. ‘There was a lot of eye rolling from both sides.’
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It gets worse as our insiders say Sharon, 63, is furious that ‘talentless’ Nicole, 38, is being paid more – with a paycheque of £1.8million – than her to appear on the ITV show.
‘Sharon thinks Nicole doesn’t have the credentials she has,’ adds our insider. ‘It’s annoyed Sharon that she’s getting paid less when she believes she’s the star of the show.’
It was also reported Sharon had stipulated she was to be paid the most aside from Simon Cowell.
But Nicole isn’t taking it lying down. ‘She’s giving as good as she gets and winding Sharon up as much as she can,’ says our source.
It’s not just the former Pussycat Doll Sharon dislikes – she’s still got a bone to pick with her boss Simon. The pair attempted to bury the hatchet earlier this year (they fell out in 2012 after Sharon was mentioned in Simon’s autobiography) in preparation for Sharon’s comeback but, as the saying goes, ‘old habits die hard’ and they certainly won’t be friends overnight.
‘Sharon’s wary of Simon, but she knows he needs her, so she’s pushing him to the limit,’ another source explains.
We imagine fellow judge Louis Walsh is rubbing his hands with glee. Why? Because Louis, 63, absolutely loves a fight. When talking about The X Factor, he said: ‘Sharon and I used to have so much fun on set and we loved winding Simon up.’
We can’t wait to sit back and watch it all kick off…
Autore: CelebsNow