Sharon Osbourne

Profession: Housewife superstar
Place/Date of Birth: Brixton, London, 09 October 2020
Associated with: Jack Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne

Sharon admits she has always struggled with her weight and says she was once so fat her son Jack had to push her up the stairs. She told The Sun newspaper: "I was so fat I couldn’t get up the stairs. Jack used to have to push me up with one hand on each butt cheek while I yanked myself up with the rail." The ’X Factor’ judge - who lost half her body weight after having her stomach stapled - now sees a therapist regularly, and claims she has cut down on her vomiting from four times a day to just once a week. She said: "It’s a huge improvement."

Sharon has admitted cutting the power during Iron Maiden’s Ozzfest - Aug 05
Sharon Osbourne has admitted cutting the power during Iron Maiden’s Ozzfest performance. Despite previously denying ruining the band’s set, the feisty star has now confessed she cut their sound after lead singer Bruce Dickinson slammed her husband, Ozzy. She revealed: "I did cut the sound. Ozzfest is our tour. Dickinson doesn’t have the manners to realise that when you are invited into someone’s home, are seated at their dinner table, are eating their food and drinking their wine, you shouldn’t talk disrespectfully about them. Otherwise, you just might get you’re a** handed to you. Every action has a reaction.

"Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away with talking sh*t about my family, night after night? I don’t think he realises who he’s dealing with." Iron Maiden were also pelted with eggs and debris, and, although Sharon has not confirmed rumours she organised this stunt, she believes they got what they deserved. She said: "Frankly, Dickinson got what he deserved. We had to listen to his complaints for five straight weeks. He only had to suffer a couple of eggs on the head." In an open letter to the band on America’s MTV website, she added: "I know you would love to keep talking about this, because this is the most press that Iron Maiden has had in the US in 20 years, but let’s move on, shall we?"

Sharon - who branded Dickinson a "pr*ck" after the fateful performance - signed the letter "The ’Real’ Iron Maiden." The row erupted at the Californian music festival when Dickinson slammed Ozzy in an interview with Kerrang! magazine. He criticised their reality show, ’The Osbournes’, and claimed the wild rocker used a Teleprompter on stage.

Sharon Osbourne sabotaging Iron Maiden’s Ozzfest - Aug 05
Sharon Osbourne has been accused of sabotaging Iron Maiden’s Ozzfest performance. Fans claim the feisty star and her daughter, Kelly, encouraged the crowd at the Californian concert to pelt the heavy metal band with eggs and beer bottles after lead singer Bruce Dickinson slammed her husband, Ozzy.

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Biography

Born Sharon Rachel Levy to media mogul Don Arden and his wife Hope, Sharon first met husband to be Ozzy Osbourne at the age of seventeen, whilst working as a receptionist for her father. When Ozzy was fired from his band, Black Sabbath, in 1979 Sharon leapt at the chance to represent him as a solo artist. It was Sharon who coordinated a comeback for Ozzy, eventually making him one of the world’s premier metal acts.

Sharon also worked her magic on acts such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Coal Chamber and Motorhead, there are also rumours that she briefly worked with Queen but was sacked by Freddie Mercury.

During their long hours together Sharon and Ozzy fell in love and, in 1982, they were married in Hawaii. However, it hasn’t all been romance for Sharon, she has stuck by her husband through his drink and drugs problems, which came to a head when her husband tried to strangle her. Despite everything Sharon has stood by her man and turned her family into a hugely successful media product.

In 2002 The Osbournes aired on MTV. The show followed the lives of Sharon, Ozzy, son Jack and daughter Kelly as well as their legion of pets as they went through day to day life in California. An immediate hit The Osbournes immediately launched the family in to the limelight like never before and when Sharon was diagnosed with cancer during the making of the series she insisted filming continue.

Despite the bad luck that came with the series - both Jack and Kelly developed problems with drink and drugs during that time - there has been a silver lining for Sharon. Ok, so her self titled talk show wasn’t the hugest success in the US but her role as judge on The X Factor has launched Sharon to a whole new audience while the UK version of her talk show garnered a respectable amount of viewers.

Elsewhere Sharon has set up top rock festival Ozzfest and published her autobiography, Extreme, which sensationally revealed the levels of plastic surgery she has undergone, including lap-band surgery (which reduces the size of the stomach) and detailed her ongoing battle with bulimia. However, it is her outspoken ways which have seen Sharon hit the headlines time and time again, from hitting out at Chris Tarrant to a fued with Iron Maiden, via bitchy comments to Rebecca Loos and a neverending argument with fellow X Factor judges Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh.
updated March 2007
December 2007