Mel B flung a glass of water at Simon Cowell before storming off the stage of “America’s Got Talent” in reaction to a crude joke cracked by her fellow judge Tuesday.
Cowell made a quip about Melanie Brown’s wedding night during a segment of the show in which a magician’s performance went awry.
“I kind of imagine this would be like Mel B’s wedding night, a lot of anticipation, not much promise or delivery,” Cowell said.
The jibe comes at a time when the former Spice Girls singer is going through a tumultuous public divorce from Stephen Belafonte.
Upon Brown’s dramatic exit, “America’s Got Talent” host Tyra Banks stated “this is live TV y’all — live TV.”
Speaking to ET’s Denny Directo after the incident, Brown said Cowell should have known better.
"If you say something inappropriate he's gonna get like, stuff thrown at him," she said, adding that she threw the water at him in a "friendly way."
"I made sure there was no ice in it this time ... just fizzy water," Mel B told ET.
This is not the first time Brown and Cowell have butted heads on the set of “America’s Got Talent.” Earlier in the season the former Spice Girl also threw water in Cowell’s face after he commented that she had risen to fame without being able to dance.
Brown told ET her only regret was that she had not had cranberry juice in her glass.
“Then his whole body would be really sticky,” she said.
She explained that the two managed to resolve their dispute during a commercial break.
"I told him he was an a**hole and that was it, and he goes, 'Oh, whatever,'" she told ET.
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