Osbourne: 'I'm not like Rebecca Loos'

Sharon Osbourne has insisted that she should not be compared to her former X Factor nemesis Rebecca Loos.

The outspoken TV star repeatedly attacked Loos for her affair with David Beckham when she appeared on the ITV1 talent show's celebrity series three years ago.

After being voted off the programme, Loos went on to describe Osbourne as a bully and a hypocrite, pointing out that she had started her relationship with husband Ozzy when he was still married to his first wife.

Discussing infidelity in an interview with Psychologies magazine, Osbourne commented: "I wasn't judging [Rebecca] for that. But I fell in love with Ozzy and we're still together. She had a fling and used it as a career move. There's a difference."

The 56-year-old revealed that it was Loos's behaviour in the aftermath of the cheating row which annoyed her the most.

She explained: "I wasn't so much getting at her, as defending Victoria. You know, Rebecca sleeps with a married man, and then she not only brags about it in the papers but she slags off his wife whom she doesn't know the first thing about.

"It makes me angry when women don't support each other, and Rebecca was one of those women."

Osbourne quit The X Factor last year following tensions with fellow judge Dannii Minogue.

Her full interview appears in the new issue of Psychologies magazine, out today.