Sharon Osbourne jokes Simon has small-penis syndrome

Sharon Osbourne has responded to the latest revelations about Simon Cowell’s love life, joking that the TV star must suffer from “small-penis syndrome”.

Details about Cowell’s private life, including an affair with Dannii Minogue during Osbourne’s stint on The X Factor with the duo, have been released this week to promote Tom Bower’s unauthorised biography The Intimate Life Of Simon Cowell.

Osbourne hit out at claims in the book that she left The X Factor because of Cowell’s initimate relationship with Minogue and was critical of the Syco boss for bringing her into his “messing around”.

Speaking on US chatshow The Talk, the America’s Got Talent judge said: “I couldn’t care if he was having sex with anything. It’s not my business, I don’t care, I’m not interested and that is not the reason why I left.

“I’m p*ssed off because you’ve got a whole career, you’ve got a whole everything to talk about – about your achievements, about what you’ve done for the world of competition and everything. Why bring Mrs O into your messing around?”

She added: “I left because I didn’t like that girl. I didn’t like working, and I had just… it was at a time when I was newly over my cancer, and I promised myself I wouldn’t be in a situation where I wasn’t 100% happy. When it’s not fun, you go, and it wasn’t fun.

“He likes to glamourise. He loves attention. He loves all the publicity he’s getting. And the thing is, nobody leaves Simon, he fires you.”

In a final pop at the millionaire TV and music mogul, she joked: “I think he is a victim of small-penis syndrome.”