Women are NOT bitchy to each other at work, says Amanda Holden... It's just men setting us up
But Amanda Holden insists that women don't fight among themselves – and office catfights are a myth promoted by men.
The Britain's Got Talent judge, 54, said in an interview: 'The notion that women are bitchy to each other in the workplace is just men setting us up against each other... It's never the women.'
She then added: 'I can't think of another woman who's upset me.'
However, her comments in The Times are likely to come as news to Ms Osbourne and Ms Willoughby, with whom Ms Holden has rowed with very publicly in recent years.
Ms Holden and Ms Osbourne began their war of words last year after The X Factor judge, 72, and Louis Walsh – appearing on Celebrity Big Brother – criticised Simon Cowell for his dress sense and claimed he 'didn't know how to keep friends'.
Ms Holden immediately came out in support of Cowell, saying: 'I hated seeing certain people in a reality show dissing Simon.
'He's the person who's given them all the chances, given them a lot of money and a lifestyle they probably wouldn't have had. It's bitter and pathetic.
'It was like Cinderella with her two sisters in the background? Just stabby, stabby, stabby.'
Ms Osbourne then hit back on social media: 'Unlike you, the brand of Sharon Osbourne is known worldwide.
'There are many countries that I could work in if I choose to. However, I don't have the ambition or time to do so and, unlike you, I don't work in radio or pantomime.'
Afterwards Ms Holden described it as a 'storm in a teacup'.
The presenter, who is one of television's highest-paid women, earning around £5 million a year, has also mocked former This Morning host Holly Willoughby.
When Ms Willoughby, 44, returned to the show after Phillip Schofield's much-publicised departure, Ms Holden took a swipe at her first comments to camera.
And in May, Amanda (pictured earlier this year) appeared to take another sly dig at the presenter live on air while she was presenting her Heart FM radio show
'Right, deep breath,' Ms Willoughby said, dressed in white, before asking the viewers at home: 'Firstly, are you OK? I hope so.'
The next day, also dressed in white, Ms Holden appeared in an online video, saying: 'Hello, it is Tuesday, are you OK?'
And in May she appeared to take another sly dig at the presenter live on air while she was presenting her Heart FM radio show.
Responding to co-host Jamie Theakston's queries about whether her Netflix dating series Cheat: Unfinished Business was being renewed for a second run, Ms Holden said she didn't know.
He then teased, 'What are they suggesting – are they getting Holly Willoughby?' to which Holden replied: 'No, they want a proper presenter.'
A spokesman for Holden declined to comment.
Not sure Holly and Sharon would agree! ...and try telling that to the office Queen Bee
By Roger Dobson
There's usually one found in every office: a tough-talking female boss with so-called 'Queen Bee syndrome'.
But their lofty authority and disdain for their female co-workers does them no favours – particularly among other women.
A study has found women at a lower level – the 'worker bees' – find female bosses arrogant, conceited and manipulative.
While the authors of the study acknowledge this may be an unfair prejudice, they suggest the problem lies with women who are seen to be mimicking powerful men and taking on more masculine roles.
Dubbing their research 'A Battle in the Hive', they say having this power – particularly in a male-dominated office – might lead them to criticise female subordinates more harshly to distance themselves from other women.
But this only creates a negative buzz and sometimes outright hostility.
'We discovered many female subordinates believe their female managers are tough and manipulative, making it difficult to work with them,' the researchers from Istanbul Medipol University wrote in the journal Frontiers in Sociology.
'In workplaces where men predominate, female subordinates may perceive female managers as unsettlingly arrogant and conceited.
'Preference for male leaders, perceived difficulties with female managers (such as emotional reactivity) and the effect of social expectations were primary themes from our research.'
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