Sharon Osbourne's had a long-running, highly publicised feud with Dannii Minogue, but she’s not set against all other female X Factor judges.

In fact, Sharon loves new judge Nicole Scherzinger – insisting that she discovered Nic as a talent show, er, talent, as well as steping in to defend Nicole from claims that she’s a bit dull.

“She was my find! I had her as a guest judge on X Factor a few years ago. I spotted her,” boasts Shaz in The Sun.

“I think she’s brilliant. She’s actually quite a naughty girl,” continues mummy Osbourne. “She’s beautiful, funny… she was up dancing at the auditions already, so she’ll be great fun.”

Back in 2007 during Sharon’s Judges’ Houses she asked Nicole to be her co-mentor, something we’d actually forgotten about until we did a little bit of research. But look! Here’s Nicole and Sharon together in Hollywood.

Sharon is back on The X Factor for one weekend only (yay), as she joins Louis at his Judges’ Houses in Las Vegas during this week’s double bill.

She’ll be helping Lou Lou choose between seven acts – he got an extra group after Rough Copy had Visa issues and had to drop out of the competition.

MK1, GMD3, Mitsotu, Poisonous Twins, Duke and Times Red plus Triple J (who are now called Union J and have a new member) will all sing for the three places in the live shows.