Sharon had huge row with 'Talent' co-star

Piers Morgan has revealed that he and Sharon Osbourne had a furious row when they met to discuss America's Got Talent for the first time.

Osbourne, who joined the show as a judge alongside Morgan and David Hasselhoff this year, went ballistic when the panel members met with host Jerry Springer and the programme's producers at a restaurant in Los Angeles.

"Things had been "simmering" between Ms Osbourne and me for a few months after she took exception to various things I've written about her," Morgan explained in the Daily Mail today.

"It all went fine for the first hour, until I made the fatal mistake of asking Sharon if she had forgiven me yet. 'No. Don't you ever call me unprofessional again you penpushing little c***', she snarled.

"'Save it for someone who gives a ****, Sharon,' I replied.

"We then exchanged further increasingly vociferous insults for ten minutes - my favourite being her jibe, 'You're Simon Cowell without the talent or f***ing class, darling' - and at one stage I really thought she was going to whack me."

Morgan said that a "raging" Sharon had to be escorted out of the room - but she phoned him later to sort out their differences.

He added: "By the time filming started the next day it was like nothing had happened."