00:00As Gabrielle Union is set to meet with NBC's lawyers this week over her allegations of discrimination and racial bias
00:06behind 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
00:16the controversy.
00:17It is a boys club. Yes.
00:18OK, it is. And the boys take care of each other and the women are not paid as much as
00:24the men.
00:25Straight after another AGT alum, Howard Stern, criticized NBC's reality competition series as, quote,
00:32boys club Sharon Osbourne never won to mince words to double down against America's Got Talent, which is led by
00:38creator 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 for his other music
00:53competition series,
00:54the British import The X Factor, which ran in the U.S. from 2011 until 2013.
00:59They looked like dirty old men beside these two little girls.
01:03Yes.
01:04And I was open.
01:05I told L.A. Reid and I told Simon.
01:08It's nothing I wouldn't say to their face.
01:10Right.
01:10You look like two dirty old men.
01:13Always want to speak her mind.
01:14After 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
01:26have prompted renewed speculation over 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.
01:35For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Adam Havner.
