Talent show tension is heating up.
The Voice‘s Christina Aguilera called The X Factor‘s Simon Cowell a “di*k” during a chat Thursday at the Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Conference in Los Angeles.
“I’ve not actually seen a full episode of any of the other music shows,” the outspoken ‘What A Girl Wants’ singer said. “I saw the commercials early on of American Idol of Simon being a di*k. I was like, ‘Man, that’s not what it’s about!’”
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The ‘Lady Marmalade’ singer said she “didn’t want to treat people like that,” and that a part of the reason she’s on The Voice is “to show that [judges] can be positive.
“We don’t have to knock people down,” the 31-year-old singer said, before mentioning one of Simon’s greatest successes. “Jennifer Hudson came from American Idol and went on to do Dreamgirls and won an Oscar.
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“I know we all have different formats.”
The Voice airs on NBC Mondays at 8/7c and Tuesdays at 9/8c; The X Factor returns on Fox Thursday at 8/7c.
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