Sofia Vergara is the most recent addition to America's Got Talent. She joined the 15th season of the TV competition show that is supposed to premiere this summer. AGT Season 15 has yet to start but rumors about its female judges feuding on set have been circling in the industry.
Vergara and fellow judge Heidi Klum are allegedly clashing on the set of the NBC show which started filming the audition portion earlier this month. According to Life & Style, Klum feels "threatened" by Vergara and she wants to be paid more than the Modern Family actress.
Klum served as one of the four judges on AGT from 2013 to 2018. She stepped down last season and went on to serve as a judge on America's Got Talent: Champions. Vergara, on the other hand, has been named by Forbes Magazine as the highest-paid actress on TV for seven years in a row.
"Heidi wants to be treated like a bigger star than Sofia, which means a bigger dressing room, a driver, and she gets to keep her seat next to Simon [Cowell]," a source of the tabloid claimed.
Gossip Cop, however, stressed that Life & Style's claims have no basis at all. Klum has nothing but positive things to say about her new fellow judge.
The former Project Runway judge also welcomed Vergara into the AGT family. She shared several photos with the American-Colombian actress.
"The fact that @sofiavergara is joining us is the icing on an already delicious cake!" she wrote in one of her posts with Vergara.
In a recent Parade magazine interview with the German-American model, she revealed that Vergara was very nervous on her first day on the set of AGT. Klum assured the Chef actress that she has great co-stars in the reality show and she has nothing to worry about.
Meanwhile, America's Got Talent Season 15 has halted production in Los Angeles over the weekend due to the coronavirus in the U.S. The show was initially scheduled to film without a live studio audience. It decided to halt production altogether.
The show's decision came after Klum missed two days of filming after she fell ill. The model has been tested for COVID-19 and is awaiting the results.
In her recent Instagram post, Klum told her followers that she is currently under self-quarantine, and has been herself isolated even from her husband, Tom Kaulitz.
AGT is just one of the many TV shows and movies that have suspended production due to COVID-19. AGT's broadcasting network, NBC, has already put production on hold for over 35 shows.
