Sharon Osbourne is appearing on Piers Morgan Life Stories tonight and one of the biggest revelations was when she bluntly declared that she had left the X Factor because of Dannii Minogue.

Osbourne eft the ITV1 show in June 2008 after four series, she explained her departure saying:

I left because of Dannii Minogue, simple as that.

I didn’t enjoy working with her at all and the prospect of spending six months sitting next to her, I thought ‘my life is better than that’.

She added that Minogue had “no sense of humour” and “bad plastic surgery”.

She denied being jealous of Dannii’s youth or looks:

I was 54, been round the block. I’ve not built my career on my looks or my youth,

There was no competition because we’re so opposite.

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 said “she was like an insect, a mosquito that wouldn’t go away.

At least we now know that the whole feud wasn’t a figment of Simon Cowell’s press machine. Thanks Sharon!