Sharon Osbourne has been causing quite a stir in the Celebrity Big Brother house – but not for the reasons you might think.
The outspoken TV star, 71, came under fire when her housemate Fern Britton, 66, came into the house and Sharon said she thought she was nice but they had never met.
However, viewers of the show immediately began sharing a clip of them meeting on This Morning almost two decades ago.
During the interview, Sharon opened up about her relationship with Simon Cowell, 64, during her time on the X Factor.
She slipped up when she swore and said: ‘I’ve never met Simon before, so I thought: why would you want to project that negativity, that hurt (while talking about his reputation?).
Celebrity Big Brother’s Sharon Osbourne has come under fire after she said she had never met Fern Britton on Tuesday night’s show, as fans share a clip of them together on a TV show.
Viewers of the show immediately began sharing a clip of them meeting on This Morning almost two decades ago.
During the unearthed interview, Sharon opened up about her relationship with Simon Cowell, 64, during her time on X Factor. She slipped up when she swore and said ‘he’s an asshole’
And then when I met Simon, I realized why. He’s an idiot.’
Fern and Phillip could be seen laughing out loud and Fern apologized for the language and said: “Obviously we can’t say that.”
It seems as if Sharon has forgotten the meeting since it was so long ago.
Fern left This Morning as presenter in 2009 and said an incident on set caused her to abruptly leave the show.
She said on the Ray D’Arcy Show in 2020: ‘There was also a persistent rumor that I left because Phillip was paid more than me.
“And I always tell people, ‘Why would I leave a show for nothing if I was worried about money?’
‘Something happened and I thought, “That’s really it,” and I walked away and quit.
The truth is that they treated me quite badly. And after a while I thought, “Damn.”
Sharon commented that she had never met Fern while discussing the housemates with Louis Walsh from a secret bunker.
Sharon joked that she really likes Fern when she entered the house, but said she had never met her.
In his 2020 biography, Life Is What You Make It, Phillip claimed that their argument arose over the content of an episode of This Morning.
Phillip left the show in May after admitting to having an affair with a much younger colleague.
Meanwhile, Sharon opened up about her husband Ozzy on Tuesday’s episode of Celebrity Big Brother, revealing what he told her before she entered the house.
The former X Factor judge, 71, is a ‘tenant’ of the reality show and will be in the house with her fellow celebrities for five days.
Meeting her other housemates on the first night, Sharon spoke about her 42-year marriage to Ozzy and West End star Marisha Wallace.
Marisha asked, “I can’t even imagine what it’s like to be with someone for that long.”
Sharon gushed, “It just becomes the most natural thing,” while Marisha commented, “That’s true love.”
Simon and Sharon go back a long way, but they fell out after a fight when she was on X Factor
