SHARON'S A VULGAR BULLY
REBECCA'S X -RATED ATTACK ON TV JUDGE
By Lara Gould
X FACTOR loser Rebecca Loos has finally hit back at cruel Sharon Osbourne... branding her a "vulgar bully". Sharon had her knives out for Rebecca - famous for her kiss-and-tell on David Beckham - on X Factor: Battle Of The Stars all last week.
Now Rebecca, 28, has spoken of her backstage tears after the verbal lashings from Sharon, a pal of the Beckhams and a guest at their Full Length And Fabulous World Cup party two weeks ago. X Factor producers and the other judges, Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh, had to beg her not to walk out. Now she has decided to make her true feelings known.
"I've kept a dignified silence - but the perfect word to describe Sharon is 'bully'," she said. "And what she said to me was vulgar and cheap. I wanted to lash back, but Simon had told me 'Don't hit back, don't react, don't bite. Just thank the audience, thank the public - they're the ones who are voting'."
Rebecca and one-time Diana lover James Hewitt performed under the tongue-in-cheek name The Love Rats to raise money for Save The Children. They lasted until Thursday before being voted off - but Rebecca will come face-to-face with her enemy again tomorrow when the contestants are reunited for the grand finale.
"Money can buy you clothes, looks, style, but you have to be born with elegance and class," says Rebecca. "There are a lot of people out there like Sharon and Victoria Beckham who don't have it. I do, it was the way I was brought up."
The spat began after Rebecca and James's first song, when Sharon suggested Rebecca should "try doing tomorrow night with knickers on -it will help warm up your voice". Next night she hissed: "Talk about going down. Was there something stuck in the back of your throat?"
Afterwards Sharon's section of the audience booed and jeered at the couple - though Rebecca claims this was led by Sharon's daughter Kelly. "Kelly was behind a lot of it, it came from her section. I didn't ever expect Sharon to be nice to me, but I didn't expect this. I think she's doing it because she wants to keep in with the Beckhams. People have said it's so she keeps her place on the invite list to their party next year. God knows."
Producers were furious with Sharon, says Rebecca, and they begged her not to quit. "ITV apologised and said Sharon had been spoken to but there was nothing they could do. They said they'd had loads of complaints. Simon put his arm round me and said: 'Don't react'. I thought 'I don't let people down'. I had to stay."
Ironically, Rebecca had always been a fan of Sharon. "She came into make-up on the first morning wearing a dressing gown and no make-up and looked amazing - I told my mum she looked beautiful. But Sharon just blanked me. If she'd introduced herself and we'd talked for five minutes I would have listened to her criticism. But she didn't even look me in the eye and then says all these horrible things."
On Wednesday night's show Sharon refused to comment on the duo's performance. So on Thursday Rebecca braced herself for another lashing. "On Thursday I had my defences up because everyone was saying she's going to go for you tonight. That's why when I got off stage I burst into tears even though she didn't comment. It was so stressful. I was upset as my parents had to see their little princess go through that."
Rebecca claims her friend Julian Bennett, from TV's Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, was banned from the audience after defending her on GMTV. But ITV says the studio was too full when he turned up. "He told GMTV that Sharon was the pot calling the kettle black. Although she now has this wonderful reputation, her husband Ozzy used to have affairs."
Rebecca's website has been flooded with messages of support, and she says some are from fans of Sharon, who has sold 1.5 million copies of her autobiography, Extreme, in Britain. "I've had emails from Sharon fans saying they're 'embarrassed by how she's treating you'."
She is now bracing herself for her return to the show for the grand finale tomorrow night. "I don't want to bitch about Sharon. If someone attacks me that's fine, I can deal with it. It's fascinating in this world how money and fame can change some people - they forget where they've come from and how they got there. I won't. I've got my head screwed on. And while Sharon's been bullying and childish I'm determined not to bitch back at her. I hope she gets her invite to the next Beckham bash. She deserves it."
Last night Sharon's spokesman insisted she's not a close friend of the Beckhams and has met them only a couple of times. Gary Farrow said: "What Rebecca says is quite extraordinary. Elegance and class are the last words I'd use to describe her. It amazes me... someone who sold their story about a celebrity is now" regarded as a celebrity - with absolutely no talent required."
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but he had a nice voice and was exuding charisma and charm to the nth degree. 
as was EE's Lucy Benjamin, who knew she could sing! The Page 3 girl, Michelle, was pretty good as well but maybe not as good as the other two in comparison.
So that's alright then. 
