CBB fans dig out old clip of Sharon Osbourne and Fern Britton - after claiming they've never met

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Sharon Osbourne has been making quite a stir in the Celebrity Big Brother house, but it's her apparent memory lapse regarding her encounter with Fern Britton that currently has viewers talking.

The outspoken TV personality, 71, raised eyebrows when she claimed to have never met Fern, 66, despite evidence to the contrary.

Viewers of the show wasted no time in digging out an old clip from their meeting on This Morning nearly two decades ago. During the interview, Sharon inadvertently spilled the beans about her first impressions of Simon Cowell, a moment that Fern and co-host Phillip Schofield found uproariously amusing.

In the clip, Sharon candidly shared her thoughts on Simon's reputation, unaware that her comments would cause a stir. She said: “I'd never met Simon before at all, so I was like why would you want to project that negativity, that hurtfulness, “'And then when I met Simon, I realised why.