Sharon Osbourne is now calling her recent fight with The Talk co-hosts Sheryl Underwood and Elaine Welteroth “the biggest set up ever.”
Osbourne was widely accused of gaslighting during her emotional defense of her friend, Piers Morgan’s, unkind comments about Meghan Markle.
In a new interview with ET — which aired as further allegations were made about her using racist and homophobic language — Osbourne attempts to contextualize the encounter by painting herself the victim of CBS executives.
She says she arrived late to set that day, where a showrunner asked her, “Hey, do you want to clear up the Piers thing again?”
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“If you want me to, I will,” Osbourne recalls answering.
Then she says that eight minutes before showtime, the same showrunner informed her that “Maybe one of [the co-hosts] doesn’t agree” with her. She further claims the questions from the segment were intentionally kept from her, and only written on Underwood and Welteroth’s notecards.
“And I’m like, ‘I’ve been set up,’” she told ET. “And I went like, how DARE you all do this to me! I’m your sacrificial lamb.”
“I think that CBS was so horrified with Piers for the things he was saying. Because remember, Harry and Meghan– it’s a CBS interview,” she added. “I had sided with Piers, so, it’s the cancel culture isn’t it? ‘Throw her under the bus.’”
Osbourne isn’t sure she’ll be back on the show when it returns from hiatus, pending a network investigation into the incident.
“I wish that we could go on and have an adult conversation, calmly, and work it out but I don’t know whether we can,” she said. “I don’t know whether it’s gone past that. But I don’t know whether I even want to go back. I don’t know whether I’m wanted there.”
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Liquid Silver
Sharon Osbourne is kind of a foul-mouthed bint. So…um, yeah, love her or hate her (I’m kind of neutral), what exactly do you think she’s going to do, use multisyllabic synonyms for things?
You don’t hire her expecting Michelle Obama.
Hdtex
I expect her to not be a stinking pile of steaming racist garbage.
Is that too much to ask?
Liquid Silver
Yes, like asking for an intelligent or insightful reply around here is asking too much. You do know who Sharon Osbourne is, don’t you?
jcool
i heard she was behind marie osmond not being asked back for a second season. how can you not like marie osmond but like piers morgan?
Ken A.
Oh leave her alone. She defended a friend, so what. This bullshit has gotten ridiculous.
Godabed
clearly you haven’t been paying attention to the news, also you are complicit with the friends that do racism, sexist, homophobic sh*t. But her former cohost called her out for racist things that she said. Including getting people fired from the show.
She’s not innocent.
Ed5995
Agreed. Time to get back to serious issues directly affecting millions eg the pandemic and poverty in the US which the millionaire actress Meghan Markle and billionaire Oprah don’t give a flying f**k about. Freeloaders
Cam
It’s cute how you hide the rod “Racist behavior” behind the word “Friend”
Fahd
I watched the Osborne reality show years ago, and based on that, I think it is likely she could have used slurs when referencing others. She is who she is. Blaming her bad on CBS – after all they aired the H&M interview — is typical misdirection with a possible grain of truth (something Trump would definitely try.)
I haven’t really followed her. Her opinions on Piers Morgan, Megan, or anyone else have no influence on me, and I don’t care if she returns to the Talk. If I were going to watch one of these shows, it would be the View or even the Real (is that still on?), before the Talk.
In any case, maybe because sexual harassment or misconduct isn’t involved, I think she’ll survive this if she wants to do so. She’s very wily.
tjay7
Since when is taking responsibility for your own words being blindsided?
Mr. Stadnick
Who exactly was she and why does anyone care what she says? Silly old cow
Garath99
She’s old, white, british and a ‘celebrity’ because her husband is a famous rock star. Yes, she’s sticking up for her incredibly racist disgusting asshole of a friend. Does that make her racist? Yes it does. I call out my own family when they’re being racist, homophobic, ageist etc. Making excuses for it means you either harbor the same thoughts or you’re just racist enough to not set a friend straight. It’s time she stopped offering her opinions on shit.
RickHeathen
I’ve hated that woman since she laughed on The Talk because a woman cut her husband’s penis off and put it down the garbage disposal so it couldn’t be reattached. The guy wasn’t abusing his wife or anything, he just wanted a divorce. That was it. It’s this sort of misandry that makes feminism a problem for itself.
mlo88
Can you point out an example of a time when Sharon Osborne ever said she was a feminist?
Heywood Jablowme
Her husband probably ate more bats than the people of Wuhan did. But is there any LGBTQ angle to the Sharon Osbourne scandal? Or Meghan/Harry? Queerty seems to be forgetting their “gay agenda.”
Two obvious suggestions for stories that would practically write themselves, worth at least a mention by Queerty:
– The conductor James Levine, who died a few days ago, had an unexpectedly WILD, mostly M4M sex life. He was a coercive cult leader and quite f*cked up. That dude was twisted.
– The recent, fascinating biography of James Beard, the very first TV chef in the world, who for decades was the second-most famous TV chef (next to his friend Julia Child).
leauxbeaux
Referring to former co-host and the creator of The Talk, Sara Gilbert, as a pu$$y licker would be relevant, no?
Heywood Jablowme
@leauxbeaux: mmm…Okay, that counts!
Cam
She put out on Twitter, not just support for Piers Morgan, but said “I am with you”.
Combine this with her support for Brexit because she said Britain was losing itself and its traditions with all the new people coming in etc.
Yeah, not surprised.
Don’t forget, her daughter said on another show that if Latinos didn’t come in to America who would clean all the toilets at Mara Lago.
mastik8
Whew, what a relief, she found someone to throw under the bus so she doesn’t have to take responsibility for her actions – yet again.
BaltoSteve
Hmmm.. Right on schedule. It really is amazing how predictable folks can be.
1. Defend the racist by lying, crying and making it about oneself.
2. Go on social media and say how much one isn’t a racist.
3. Receipts are pulled.
4. Claim it was all fake.
5. “Bitch Set Me Up!’ or as I lovingly call it, the Marion Barry defense.
6. Try to capitalize on one’s victimhood.
7. Blame the liberal left for it’s new fangled cancel culture, exposing one’s ignorance of:
A: Conservatives have engaged in the exact same behaviour (with varying effects, i.e. Dixie Chicks and Yeti coolers) over the years and;
B: examples of “cancel culture” can be found as far back as 14th century BC.
Can’t wait for her to follow the rest of the script.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Maybe it best we report on the views of those who are important and matter than the views of a woman who owes her fame to a husband standing on a stage stoned out of his mind in every performance that included biting off the head of an innocent bat. You have to learn to look at these people for what they are than what they honestly do think they are.
Cam
I get what you’re saying, but, She’s on a TV show that reaches millions. If her behavior isn’t called out, then her entire audience is being told that it’s no problem.
Max
she defended a fellow countryman the way the congressional Republicans defended Trump’s behavior. zero ability to call out inappropriate behavior.
whatabesson
Goodbye, Sharon Osbourne. You overstayed your welcome on our televisions (not like anyone was really watching The Talk anyway). The Talk is just a wanna-be not as successful version of The View and The Real.
darklight413
It always amazes me how bullies and racists will always claim to be the “victim” when their own words are the things that get them in trouble. The fact that she doesn’t know or care what comes out of her mouth proves what kind of person she is. She’s hanging herself.
ShiningSex
I think she’s wrongfully being attacked.Elaine Welteroth is a c*nt.
She was defending a friend not what he said. There’s a difference. Her career is over but due to idiots “canceling” without actually listening to what actually happened.
I understand why SOME people are canceled but not most. People need to pick their fights before all of this comes bite us all in the ass. It will!!!!
Cam
So let’s see, she has a history of this behavior, she didn’t just defend Morgan, she stated she was with him. She played victim and lashed out at her Black co-host on air, she stated she supports Brexit because all of these other people coming in were destroying Britain, her daughter said that if Latinos stopped coming to America who would clean toilets?
But yeah, it’s all about “cancel culture”.
Jack Meoff
Remind me again why Sharon Osborne even has a career in American television?
missvamp
maybe just cancel the talk. they’ve gone through hosts like i do underwear. it’s stupid & pointless. get rid of the view while we’re at it. daytime talk shows are just pointless drivel imo.
lillest2
Has any one of you abusive people above actually thought about what this is all about? Any of you? Have any of you, for example, any knowledge at all about the fantastic work the British Royal Family (of whom I am no particular fan) have done for decades in promoting good causes in third world countries – not least by constantly visiting and promoting them – and in working for better race relations in the UK? None of this gets a mention. Oprah sits there for two hours and does not challenge a single accusation! Sharon O dares to say something about someone she supports, and, whether she is right or wrong, becomes the victim of abuse for just opening her mouth! No wonder Trump is popular, 500,000 Americans are dead from Covid and your democracy is under threat – just stand back and read through the above and you will realise that ALL rational thought, objective analysis and simple humanity seems to have vanished, even in our community! !
Cam
The Royal family lives off the tax payers wallet and the big lie that they’ve tried to promote is that they are good for tourism or promote charities.
Funny, charities in other countries do just fine without royals. And France gets far more tourism than Britain to it’s landmarks without funding a family millions of dollars to not work and live off the taxpayers back.
The entire idea of a “Royal” family is anti-equality.
BaltoSteve
Too funny, the same old racist colonialism masquerading as charity! This Caucasian savior bs gets old real quick. Many of these “problems” in third world counties are the direct result of European colonialism and how they destabilized the existing cultures and imposed their Western Ideals on the citizens of those countries.