Sharon Osbourne has said she thinks Simon Cowell is a coward for not coming clean to Louis Walsh and Kate Thornton about the fact that they were about to be axed from X-Factor. She also says that Cowell's previously reported claims - that the situation was out of his hands and that ITV execs decided that the pair should be sacked - are false.
Sharon says: "After knowing Louis for over 20 years, Simon should have had the guts to tell him to his face that he was going to get fired. I was completely shocked. It was a harsh and unfair thing to do. The very least he could have done is to have told Louis and Kate rather than pretend it was all down to the producers."
She continued: "Simon makes all the decisions and what he says goes. All he had to say was 'You know what, we want to shake things up and bring in new faces, no hard feelings'. I feel desperately sorry for Kate. Simon hasn't even bothered to call her about it."