Four years after his unceremonious departure from The speechSharon Osbourne’s late husband calls out to CBS from beyond the grave.
Inside Ozzy Osbourne’s Posthumous Memoirs Last ritesnow available following the Black Sabbath rocker’s death aged 76 in July, he claimed “they kicked Sharon out” of the show following an on-air row with his co-hosts over her friend Piers Morgan.
“The person she’s convinced set her up – and I’m not going to name names, because the last thing I want to do is stir up all this shit again – knew what they were doing, I think,” Ozzy wrote, according to Weekly Entertainment. “And Sharon, when she feels stuck, she’s going to fight.”
After Sharon argued with Sheryl Underwood over Morgan’s comments about Meghan Markle, which were perceived as racist, CBS launched an investigation into the exchange and put the show on hiatus before Sharon ultimately left her seat weeks later.
“They kicked out Sharon,” Ozzy wrote. “A few weeks earlier, when Sharon was in hospital with Covid, the same people had taken to Instagram to say ‘Madame O, we love you’. What a bunch of pretenses.
Sheryl Underwood, Carrie Ann Inaba, Sharon Osbourne, Sara Gilbert and Eve in “The Talk” on August 2, 2019
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Ozzy added that “the worst part” was that people thought Sharon was racist because of her association with Morgan. “I can tell you without a doubt, my wife is not racist. It goes against everything she has ever stood for. Anyone who has spent more than five seconds with her knows that,” he wrote.
“The people she worked with on that show knew that,” Ozzy added. “Staying stuck with that label was just wrong. Because you’re never going to get a TV gig once that’s what people think of you. It’s game over. They knew that when they eliminated her.”
Although Sharon “was devastated for a long time,” Ozzy said he admired the way she “let it go and never talk about it again.”
“She’s an incredible woman, my wife,” Ozzy added. “As for The speechpoetic justice was finally served. It was fucking canceled.
The speech announced last November that it was ending its 15-season run, airing its finale after 2,993 episodes the following month. Developed by Sara Gilbert, the daytime talk show debuted in 2010 with her and Osbourne among the original panel of co-hosts.
