Christina Aguilera Calls Simon Cowell a Dick

The Voice coach, Christina Aguilera conducted a Keynote Q&A at the Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Conference on Thursday. Here’s what she had to say about Simon Cowell and American Idol:

Aguilera confessed she hasn’t seen much of any of the singing competition shows — including her own. “I’ve not actually seen a full episode of any of the other music shows. I saw the commercials early on of American Idol of Simon being a dick. I was like, ‘Man, that’s not what it’s about!’ I didn’t want to treat people like that. I wanted to do The Voice to show that we can be positive. We don’t have to knock people down.” Which isn’t to say she was knocking American Idol altogether.

“Jennifer Hudson came from American Idol and went on to do Dreamgirls and won an Oscar,” she pointed out. “I know we all have different formats. I don’t even watch my own show: I tape it, I’m out. Time to be mommy and time to work on my record and of course invest time in my team, picking songs. I juggle a lot.”

Oh geez. As if Christina has never knocked anyone down. Her digs at former Disney pal, Tony Luca, was worse than anything Simon has ever said to a contestant. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be dissed straight up than passively aggressively.

She also had some colorful opinions on bloggers and the tabloid press:

“Now everyone is a critic,” she said with a smile, on the subject of the tabloid press and online bloggers. “I don’t read blogs. It’s just God-knows-who in Buttf— wherever writing hate sh–. You can’t take it seriously. I’m sure you’ve all been hated on at some point by buttf— people.”

“It’s real talk today,” she said at one point to applause.

Read much more at The Hollywood Reporter

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