https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYTCWl7H8M

I just LOVE this clip!

She says pretty much everything that we think when we watch X Factor! I know it's quite an old clip but i've never seen it.

And she's not too fond of Simon either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOqK62RzX3Q

And she'll happily take the million-pound paycheck this year again, when it comes her way in as little as a few months. Money talks!

Posted nearly 2 years ago and yet she is wanting to come back to the show.

Come on Sharon......money talk

I hope she's back

Funny she criticises judges crying yet only the year before she 'broke down' over this audition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj0vdjt8PF4

Sharon had history with that contestant which is probably why she became upset.

Obviously, everything Sharon says in that interview is to play up for the camera and for "good TV". She knows how to work an audience and will make all sorts of claims to entertain them. Doesn't mean she actually meant it.

We do know that when she's on the X Factor, the producers "can't control" her as sources have said each year she's on the panel. I do believe she believes the shows are too contrived though. Probably why Simon falls out with her - she doesn't follow the "storylines" they're trying to make within the show and does as she likes (like drinking alcohol from the teacup live on air basically getting drunk as she did in the last series).

She's a hypocrite

Yeah, but even hypocrites nail the truth from time to time

If you go back to first series it was a Steve Brookstein sob story VT that set her off in final. She knew it was total manipulation and said so.

I remember her laying into him on the live final. Simon wasn't too
Impressed but it was good TV.

Her drunk appearance on the Xtra Factor when Ben Shephard was hosting it was hilarious too. She didn't care how she was coming across.

Sob stories and production manipulation was the only reason her first and only winner actually won, as let's face it, it wasn't to do with her singing.

Well, it wasn't exactly the sob story that got Sam Bailey to win as it was the lack of competition.