00:00As Gabrielle Union is set to meet with NBC's lawyers this week over her allegations of discrimination and racial bias behind the scenes of America's Got Talent,
00:08another former AGT judge is speaking out. On Tuesday's episode of her daytime show, The Talk, Sharon Osbourne jumped into the controversy.
00:17It is a boys club. Yes.
00:18Okay, it is. And the boys take care of each other and the women are not paid as much as the men.
00:25Straight after another AGT alum, Howard Stern, criticized NBC's reality competition series as, quote,
00:31boys club Sharon Osbourne never won to mince words, double down against America's Got Talent, which is led by creator and current judge Simon Cowell.
00:40Osbourne, who left AGT's judging table after six seasons in 2012, said Simon wasn't on the show when she was,
00:47but brought up Cowell's pattern of hiring young female talent, like Britney Spears and Demi Lovato,
00:51for his other music competition series, the British import The X Factor, which ran in the U.S. from 2011 until 2013.
00:58They looked like dirty old men beside these two little girls. And I was open.
01:05I told L.A. Reid and I told Simon. It's nothing I wouldn't say to their face. You look like two dirty old men.
01:13Always one to speak her mind. After NBC confirmed that Union and fellow newcomer Julianne Hough would not be returning to AGT,
01:20a report of toxic culture and public outcry from Union's husband Dwayne Wade over her dismissal have prompted renewed speculation
01:27over the show's treatment of people of color and calls for a boycott on Twitter.
01:32For more on this developing story, head on over to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Adam Havner.
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