Studio staff waded in to spare either getting hurt in the show's ugliest scenes ever.
An ITV1 source said: "In my years on the show I've never seen anything so frightening."
Matt - favourite to win the talent contest - lost his rag and squared up to the off-key oddball during rehearsals for tonight's ITV1 show.
Wagner, 54, stood his ground as the raging Essex lad got in his face - accusing him of badmouthing his fellow wannabes and snarling: "You spiteful f****** t***."
Matt spat: "You're a f****** joke."
Producers feared an all-out punch-up - with MATT coming off worst because Wagner is a karate expert.
They rushed to drag the 27-year-old away amid scenes branded the ugliest ever on the show.
A source rocked by the amazing bust-up at the Fountain Studios in Wembley, North West London, said: "Matt was livid. He just flipped.
"We genuinely thought Wagner might give him a hiding."
Wagner appeared lost for words as Matt went "nose to nose" with him and let rip with a foul-mouthed tirade.
Finally he managed to yell: "Who the hell do you think you are?"
He then demanded bizarrely: "The paparazzi?"
Matt has been seething after Wagner survived being voted off the show last Sunday while his chum Aiden Grimshaw, 18 - who CAN sing - got the boot.
Wagner has since quit the contestants' house after a huge fall-out with his fellow wannabes.
He even threatened to karate chop the lads in boyband One Direction.
He is now being put up in a Holiday Inn after accusing fellow wannabes of bullying HIM.
Last night fuming Matt yelled at him: "Who the f****** hell do you think you are, calling us bullies? You're the f****** bully.
"No one likes you and you're a pain in the a***.
"That's why you've been booted out of the house. We don't want you around.
"As far as I'm concerned you can f*** off and never speak to me again."
Since moving out of the house, Wagner has been using the gym at his hotel - despite The Sun this week revealing he has been claiming incapacity benefits for a shoulder injury.
He hit out at Matt and One Direction as he emerged from one of his workouts - branding them "immature".
Wagner said: "I can't stand it in the house. I was living a life of solitude and not mixing with the rest of the singers as we had nothing in common."
Matt was comforted by the show's stylist Grace Woodward after being dragged off him last night.
Producers had caught the flirting pair "snogging like teenagers" earlier.
One said: "It was really embarrassing."
"No one likes you and you're a pain in the a***.
"That's why you've been booted out of the house. We don't want you around.
"As far as I'm concerned you can f*** off and never speak to me again."
Since moving out of the house, Wagner has been using the gym at his hotel - despite The Sun this week revealing he has been claiming incapacity benefits for a shoulder injury.
He hit out at Matt and One Direction as he emerged from one of his workouts - branding them "immature".
Wagner said: "I can't stand it in the house. I was living a life of solitude and not mixing with the rest of the singers as we had nothing in common."
Matt was comforted by the show's stylist Grace Woodward after being dragged off him last night.
Producers had caught the flirting pair "snogging like teenagers" earlier.
One said: "It was really embarrassing."
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