Irish singer Brian McFadden may be kicked off Australia's Got Talent after he allegedly told a comedian appearing on the show to "f*** off back to England".
In an exchange cut from the Channel 7 show, McFadden swore at 50-year-old comic Anne Ferguson-Howe after she criticised fellow judge Kyle Sandilands about a radio lie-detector stunt gone wrong, the Herald Sun reported.
Sandilands reportedly began the war of words when he mocked Mrs Ferguson-Howe's weight after her routine had bombed on the talent show.
British-born Mrs Ferguson-Howe then struck back by asking Sandilands "when was the last time you had a chat about rape?" — a reference to the judge's controversial radio stunt last year.
McFadden then reportedly told Mrs Ferguson-Howe to get off the stage before she replied "Listen pal, if you're going to dish it out, you've got to learn to take it back."
McFadden then reportedly removed his microphone, climbed onto the stage and said to the woman "Why don't you f*** off back to England?"
"I'm a thick-skinned woman of 50 who loves a laugh but if it had been a 20-year-old girl the size I am with low self-esteem, I think I would have gone home and shot myself," Mrs Fergson-Howe said afterwards.
She made up with Sandilands after the show but received no apology from McFadden.
"I've got no problem with Kyle — we shook hands," she said.
"Brian, I tell you, I'd spit on him."
Channel Seven told the Herald Sun the exchange was edited out of Tuesday's show.
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