Simon Cowell famously paid Alesha Dixon about a billion trillion pounds (actually something closer to £300,000) to get her to work on Britain’s Got Talent. Funny, then, that he’s now been slagging her off.
Alesha told a dance group at the Birmingham auditions that she was proud of them - prompting the music mogul to give her a proper dressing down.
The former Misteeq star told dance troupe Lil’ Diamonds – who won CBBC’s Street Stars competition last September – that she was proud of their progress and that they “hadn’t let her down”.
Simon didn’t like this, and said: “"What a silly comment to make. That's a silly thing to say, Alesha."
He added: "Sorry, who are you, anyway?"
Ooooff. Saucer of milk for you, Simon!
According to The Sun, Simon was booed by the audience, and Alesha looked very embarrassed. Apparently she stayed quiet while the cameras were rolling, but as soon as they got backstage, she told the hairy-armed grump exactly what she thought of him.
We wonder why Simon was so rude in the first place. Maybe he’d woken up on the wrong side of his four-poster bed that morning. Or maybe his trousers were pulled up too high. Or just possibly he didn’t want Alesha to mention anything to do with the BBC, considering that he's in constant competition with it.
He said earlier this year: “There is unbelievable rivalry now. They want to be number one, I want to be number one. We do what it takes.”