How Dannii Minogue Really Feels About That Famous Clip
Back in 2007, the pair shared the X Factor panel for one season, and it's fair to say they didn't exactly see eye to eye during that time.
Things culminated when, towards the end of the series, Sharon made an appearance on The Graham Norton Show in which she made a series of disparaging remarks about the Put The Needle On It singer.
'What's going on?' Graham asked early on in the conversation, gesturing towards his face, suggesting Dannii looks 'bizarre' and 'like a spoon with hair'.
Sharon responded: 'I feel bad for her because she knows she's there because of her looks, not for her musical contributions to the music industry…'
When fellow guest David Boreanaz asked if he could see a picture of Dannii, Sharon then pointed her bum in his direction and said 'look at this', before collapsing to the floor in laughter.
During a new interview on Elizabeth Day's podcast How To Fail, Dannii reflected on some of the harsh treatment she'd had over the years in the media.
'And then there was a pile on… Sharon Osborne [and] Graham Norton,' she said.
The host told her: 'What really shocked me [when] I went back and re-watched the Graham Norton show with Sharon Osborne. I'm so sorry. It was so awful.'
'It is,' Dannii responded. 'I think the difference was, it wasn't being rude. There had to be production meetings to set up the things that they were doing on set in this show, and these huge personalities that I looked up to and just loved what they had done. I'd loved Sharon Osbourne on X Factor. I'd loved her on The Osbournes. I loved what Graham Norton was doing, and here were these people just tearing me to pieces.
'That show would never be made today. At the time, people didn't realise how wild it was, and I remember going home and having to sit and watch it so that I knew what had happened and I could not believe my eyes. It's not just the people who are in front of the camera, it's the people who are behind the cameras. Everyone that worked to create that. It is absolutely wild.'
In her 2010 autobiography My Story, Dannii claimed that Sharon had once reduced her to tears after laying into her behind the scenes of her dressing room.
Comparing the former Celebrity Big Brother star to a 'school bully', she said: 'I had to put up with insults flying at me both on and off screen. Over the course of the next year, Sharon announced to anyone who would listen that I was impossible to work with (but never explained why), that I was only on The X Factor because of my looks, not any visible talent or contribution to the entertainment industry and Simon employed me only because he wanted to sleep with me.'
In her own 2013 book Unbreakable, Sharon wrote: '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.'
However, in the CBB house last year, Sharon insisted that she and Dannii were now 'alright' with one another.
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