Who would’ve thought.
Must be the Grenadian... I just googled her parents.
TV News: The Talk Goes on Hiatus While CBS Sorts Through Sharon Osbourne–Piers Morgan Mess UPDATE: SHE GONE!
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Who would’ve thought.
Must be the Grenadian... I just googled her parents.
Everything Sheryl Underwood Has Said About the Sharon Osbourne Racism Dispute on The Talk
Sharon Osbourne's outburst on The Talk last week prompted CBS to put the show on an extended hiatus
Everything Sheryl Underwood Has Said About the Sharon Osbourne Racism Dispute on The Talk
Sharon Osbourne’s outburst on The Talk last week prompted CBS to put the show on an extended hiatus
By Ally Mauch
March 18, 2021 03:05 PM
Last week, The Talk co-hosts Sheryl Underwood and Sharon Osbourne made headlines after having an intense conversation about racism.
During the episode, Osbourne, 68, defended Piers Morgan following the backlash for his controversial remarks questioning the validity of Meghan Markle's discussion on mental health during her recent interview with Oprah Winfrey. Osbourne has since apologized for what she called a "panicked" reaction on air.
In the course of their discussion, Underwood, 57, questioned Osbourne about her outspoken support of Morgan, 55, amid his criticism of the Duchess of Sussex.
"What would you say to people who may feel that while you're standing by your friend, it appears you gave validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that is racist, even if you don't agree?" Underwood asked.
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Things quickly turned emotional, with Osbourne insisting that Underwood "educate" her and warning her not to cry during the episode. "I very much feel like I'm about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend, who many people think is a racist, so that makes me a racist?" Osbourne asked while on the verge of tears.
Underwood explained that while Morgan was not overtly racist, she found it hard to understand why Osbourne was defending him so fiercely, telling her "it is not the exact words of racism, it's the implication and the reaction to it."
"To not want to address that because she is a Black woman, and to try to dismiss it or to make it seem less than what it is that's what makes it racist," Underwood said. "But right now, I'm talking to a woman I believe is my friend and I don't want anybody here to watch this and think we are attacking you for being racist."
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In the days following the incident, which took place during last Wednesday's episode and prompted CBS to put The Talk on an extended hiatus, Underwood spoke out several times to explain her perspective.
"I got calls from all over the world from people that I was wondering, 'How did you find me? How do you know me?' I was getting prayers, I was getting love," she said on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Friday.
"And I want people to know this, I believe that God was telling me, 'I have a plan for you. I am about to pour down a blessing upon you,'" she added. "'I just need to know, are you ready because you will face this again?'"
She continued, "I just wanted to be a better example for people that are working just a regular old job, that had to compose themselves."
"We are the only race of people that carry the race wherever we go, and we're responsible for that," The Talk co-host said. "And I want to thank everybody all over the world in social media, everybody in radio, television, news, everywhere, everybody that reached out."
Underwood also discussed the conversation she had with Osbourne on her podcast, The World According to Sheryl, telling listeners she kept her composure because she considers Osbourne a "friend."
"I thought we were having a conversation like we normally do. But then I got a feeling that, wait a minute, this ain't what it usually is," she said. "I also got another feeling of, okay, Sheryl, this is time for you to step up into the leadership position … this is time for you to show what you're made of, and in a personal way. No matter what somebody says about you, I can show you something better than I can tell you."
She later told the Los Angeles Times that she is focused on forgiving Osbourne, adding that she was feeling full "spiritual nourishment."
"My mantra, my way of thinking, is always forgiveness first and right beside that is apology," she said. "Those two things go together. I don't know what's in Sharon's heart. I don't know what she's feeling. The only feelings I can control ... are my own."
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Over the past week, Osbourne has faced various other accusations of racism, homophobia and bullying on the set of The Talk.
On Tuesday, journalist Yashar Ali published a report alleging that Osbourne referred to her former The Talk co-host Julie Chen as "wonton" and "slanty eyes," citing multiple unnamed sources, including another former The Talk co-host, Leah Remini.
Ali's Tuesday report further claimed that Osbourne referred to former co-host and executive producer Sara Gilbert, who is lesbian, as "p---- licker" and "fish eater."
The week prior, Holly Robinson Peete, who exited the daytime talk show in 2011 following its first season, claimed that Osbourne had complained she was "too 'ghetto,'" and alleged that it played a role in her departure.
Osbourne has denied all of the allegations.
Sharon will be ok.
She has a horde of fans that will follow her anywhere.
Dont be surprised if she gets a show on FOX Business News as the official replacement for Lou Dobbs who got kicked to the curb.
She has a horde of fans that will follow her anywhere.
Dont be surprised if she gets a show on FOX Business News as the official replacement for Lou Dobbs who got kicked to the curb.
Either CBS going to end up cancelling The Talk,or Sharon going to soon be issuing a statement saying that she has"made the diffcult decision to step down as host"...
Was this the episode where the judges tell contestants that they"will not be moving forward to the finals"?
At the end of the day who the fuck is Sharon Osbourne. Just a bitch that married a rocker that bit the heads off of bats as part of his performance. How the fuck did she get to be so relevant. I guess Ozzy had some juice and had the connections to turn her into the money getter of the family when he got ill.
Sharons Father was a concert promoter that dismissed his daughter. She had to show him that she could do what he did bigger and better.
Ozzy is just a lucky drunk that would be dead in a ditch if not for h - -
It was the show on mtv that introduced the rest of the family to the world..mtv been making people more famous than they should be for years.
I did not know her father was a concert promoter, that explains how she got her claws into Ozzy. I guess she became his manager and in doing so and becoming his wife ran the family accounts and the "Ozzy" brand, so she was probably the one who made the contacts and connections because out of the whole family she is the only one who seems to have a head on her shoulders. The boy is a dumb truck, that was before he was diagnosed and came out in 2012 with multiple sclerosis and the daughter, Kelly a typical celebrity child brat.
That was it. I guess Sharon organised that back before 2002 (when the first episode aired) because she could see Ozzy's appeal was dwindling and the old rockers wern't attending the concerts so the money was slowing up. Showed the whole family to be a bunch of fuck wits!
Cancel all these man hating shows
they all hanging thenselves.
I love it
Loni love your ass is next
they all hanging thenselves.
I love it
Loni love your ass is next
damn....
I've always side eyed Sheryl Underwood too...she's from the same area just across the river from where I grew up. She has been soft shoeing since she's openly stated that she's a republican.
WATCH: Tiffany Cross Delivers BLISTERING Commentary on Sharon Osbourne and Her 'Complicity to White Supremacy'
MSNBC host Tiffany Cross delivered a blistering rebuke to Sharon Osbourne over her on-air meltdown and its subsequent fallout. Last week, Osbourne lashed out at her co-hosts on the CBS chat show The Talk as she tried to defend her defense of Piers Morgan, eventually demanding that co-host Sheryl...
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Sharon Osbourne Exits CBS’s The Talk Following Internal Investigation, Allegations of Racism
By Halle Kiefer@hallekiefer
Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
After CBS temporarily put The Talk on hiatus following Sharon Osbourne’s heated defense of Piers Morgan over accusations of racism earlier this month, the network announced Friday that Osbourne has opted not to return to the daytime talk show. “Sharon Osbourne has decided to leave The Talk,” CBS said in a statement, published by the Hollywood Reporter. “The events of the March 10 broadcast were upsetting to everyone involved, including the audience watching at home. As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon’s behavior toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace. We also did not find any evidence that CBS executives orchestrated the discussion or blindsided any of the hosts.”
“At the same time, we acknowledge the network and studio teams, as well as the showrunners, are accountable for what happened during that broadcast, as it was clear the co-hosts were not properly prepared by the staff for a complex and sensitive discussion involving race,” the network’s statement continues. “During this week’s hiatus, we are coordinating workshops, listening sessions and training about equity, inclusion and cultural awareness for the hosts, producers and crew. Going forward, we are identifying plans to enhance the producing staff and producing procedures to better serve the hosts, the production and, ultimately, our viewers.”
On March 10, Sharon Osbourne grew heated defending personal friend and British TV personality Piers Morgan against allegations of racism stemming from his on-air criticism of Meghan Markle, particularly his insistence that she lied about her treatment from the British royal family. Markle’s recent interview with Oprah Winfrey was the topic of conversation on The Talk that day. “I very much feel like I’m about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend, who many people think is a racist, so that makes me a racist?,” Osbourne declared to co-host Sheryl Underwood, demanding Underwood “educate” her about how Morgan could be racist. Following the segment, Osbourne both publicly apologized for her meltdown and later declared she had been “set up” by producers to be a “sacrificial lamb.”
Following the segment, which prompted CBS to put the show on hiatus for two days, then later two weeks, former Talk co-host Holly Robinson Peete claimed Osbourne called her “too ghetto” to host the daytime talk show, and even had a hand in her eventual dismissal from the program. Another former Talk co-host, Leah Remini, as well as other sources, subsequently alleged Osbourne had used racist and homophobic slurs to talk about former co-hosts Julie Chen and Sara Gilbert, respectively. Osbourne denied the accusations against her, calling them “lies” in a press release issued by her publicist. The Talk is currently scheduled to return on Monday, April 12, after a pre-scheduled hiatus the preceding week.
By Halle Kiefer@hallekiefer
Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
After CBS temporarily put The Talk on hiatus following Sharon Osbourne’s heated defense of Piers Morgan over accusations of racism earlier this month, the network announced Friday that Osbourne has opted not to return to the daytime talk show. “Sharon Osbourne has decided to leave The Talk,” CBS said in a statement, published by the Hollywood Reporter. “The events of the March 10 broadcast were upsetting to everyone involved, including the audience watching at home. As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon’s behavior toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace. We also did not find any evidence that CBS executives orchestrated the discussion or blindsided any of the hosts.”
“At the same time, we acknowledge the network and studio teams, as well as the showrunners, are accountable for what happened during that broadcast, as it was clear the co-hosts were not properly prepared by the staff for a complex and sensitive discussion involving race,” the network’s statement continues. “During this week’s hiatus, we are coordinating workshops, listening sessions and training about equity, inclusion and cultural awareness for the hosts, producers and crew. Going forward, we are identifying plans to enhance the producing staff and producing procedures to better serve the hosts, the production and, ultimately, our viewers.”
On March 10, Sharon Osbourne grew heated defending personal friend and British TV personality Piers Morgan against allegations of racism stemming from his on-air criticism of Meghan Markle, particularly his insistence that she lied about her treatment from the British royal family. Markle’s recent interview with Oprah Winfrey was the topic of conversation on The Talk that day. “I very much feel like I’m about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend, who many people think is a racist, so that makes me a racist?,” Osbourne declared to co-host Sheryl Underwood, demanding Underwood “educate” her about how Morgan could be racist. Following the segment, Osbourne both publicly apologized for her meltdown and later declared she had been “set up” by producers to be a “sacrificial lamb.”
Following the segment, which prompted CBS to put the show on hiatus for two days, then later two weeks, former Talk co-host Holly Robinson Peete claimed Osbourne called her “too ghetto” to host the daytime talk show, and even had a hand in her eventual dismissal from the program. Another former Talk co-host, Leah Remini, as well as other sources, subsequently alleged Osbourne had used racist and homophobic slurs to talk about former co-hosts Julie Chen and Sara Gilbert, respectively. Osbourne denied the accusations against her, calling them “lies” in a press release issued by her publicist. The Talk is currently scheduled to return on Monday, April 12, after a pre-scheduled hiatus the preceding week.
Piers Morgan says Sharon Osbourne was entitled to defend him 'without being deemed a racist'
The broadcast journalist wrote an editorial for the Daily Mail in which he defended Osbourne after her departure from 'The Talk.'
By Ruth Kinane
March 29, 2021 at 10:53 AM EDT
Piers Morgan is speaking out, some more, about Sharon Osbourne's firing from The Talk after she defended him on the CBS show.
On Monday, Morgan wrote a lengthy piece for the Daily Mail in which he expressed outrage over the treatment of his friend, Osbourne, and doubled down on his beliefs that the interview Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave Oprah Winfrey was "self-serving tittle-tattle." He also said that his disbelief of Markle is not racially motivated and nor was Osbourne's defense of his position.
The broadcaster and Osbourne have been friends for over 20 years since working together for five seasons on America's Got Talent.
"She's one of the smartest, feistiest, funniest and most outrageous people I know - and I love her for it," wrote Morgan in the Daily Mail piece. "What you see with Sharon is what you get, on and off camera. Like me, she's incredibly opinionated and loves a good argument."
On the March 10 episode of The Talk, Osbourne and co-host Sheryl Underwood discussed Morgan's views on Markle, with Osbourne supporting the British broadcaster's claims and Underwood questioning Osbourne for doing so.
"While you are standing by your friend, it appears that you are giving validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that is racist," Underwood said.
Osbourne then asked Underwood to explain what was racist about what Morgan said in regards to the duchess.
"I feel like I'm about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend who many people think is racist, so that makes me a racist," Osbourne said.
Osbourne later apologized on Twitter to "anyone of color that I offended and/or to anyone that feels confused or let down" but on Friday, CBS released a statement announcing Osbourne's departure from the talk show, saying: "As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon's behavior toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace."
Morgan, for one, disagreed with CBS's position, calling them "the Cowardly Broadcasting System," who have "so pathetically bowed to the woke mob illiberally baying for blood like a bunch of crazed language-policing fascists."
He added that Osbourne "was entitled to defend me without being deemed a racist. Just as I was entitled not to believe Meghan Markle without being deemed a racist. The fact we've both lost our jobs is not just an appalling attack on free speech, but it's also a terrible indictment of woke cancel culture bulls--- and the stinking hypocrisy that lies at the heart of it."
Morgan resigned as host of Good Morning Britain after a co-host called him out for questioning Markle's assertion that she experienced suicidal thoughts during her time at Buckingham Palace. Unable to face the criticism, Morgan stormed off the set during the live taping. Later, after the U.K. Office of Communications received more than 41,000 complaints (one reportedly from Markle herself) regarding Morgan's treatment of mental health and suicide, stepped down from his role on the morning show.
Read Morgan's full editorial at dailymail.co.uk.
The broadcast journalist wrote an editorial for the Daily Mail in which he defended Osbourne after her departure from 'The Talk.'
By Ruth Kinane
March 29, 2021 at 10:53 AM EDT
Piers Morgan is speaking out, some more, about Sharon Osbourne's firing from The Talk after she defended him on the CBS show.
On Monday, Morgan wrote a lengthy piece for the Daily Mail in which he expressed outrage over the treatment of his friend, Osbourne, and doubled down on his beliefs that the interview Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave Oprah Winfrey was "self-serving tittle-tattle." He also said that his disbelief of Markle is not racially motivated and nor was Osbourne's defense of his position.
The broadcaster and Osbourne have been friends for over 20 years since working together for five seasons on America's Got Talent.
"She's one of the smartest, feistiest, funniest and most outrageous people I know - and I love her for it," wrote Morgan in the Daily Mail piece. "What you see with Sharon is what you get, on and off camera. Like me, she's incredibly opinionated and loves a good argument."
On the March 10 episode of The Talk, Osbourne and co-host Sheryl Underwood discussed Morgan's views on Markle, with Osbourne supporting the British broadcaster's claims and Underwood questioning Osbourne for doing so.
"While you are standing by your friend, it appears that you are giving validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that is racist," Underwood said.
Osbourne then asked Underwood to explain what was racist about what Morgan said in regards to the duchess.
"I feel like I'm about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend who many people think is racist, so that makes me a racist," Osbourne said.
Osbourne later apologized on Twitter to "anyone of color that I offended and/or to anyone that feels confused or let down" but on Friday, CBS released a statement announcing Osbourne's departure from the talk show, saying: "As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon's behavior toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace."
Morgan, for one, disagreed with CBS's position, calling them "the Cowardly Broadcasting System," who have "so pathetically bowed to the woke mob illiberally baying for blood like a bunch of crazed language-policing fascists."
He added that Osbourne "was entitled to defend me without being deemed a racist. Just as I was entitled not to believe Meghan Markle without being deemed a racist. The fact we've both lost our jobs is not just an appalling attack on free speech, but it's also a terrible indictment of woke cancel culture bulls--- and the stinking hypocrisy that lies at the heart of it."
Morgan resigned as host of Good Morning Britain after a co-host called him out for questioning Markle's assertion that she experienced suicidal thoughts during her time at Buckingham Palace. Unable to face the criticism, Morgan stormed off the set during the live taping. Later, after the U.K. Office of Communications received more than 41,000 complaints (one reportedly from Markle herself) regarding Morgan's treatment of mental health and suicide, stepped down from his role on the morning show.
Read Morgan's full editorial at dailymail.co.uk.
PIERS MORGAN: I'm not a racist and neither is Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne was entitled to defend me without being deemed a racist. Just as I was entitled not to believe Meghan Markle without being deemed a racist.
PIERS MORGAN: I'm not a racist and neither is Sharon Osbourne but that didn't stop the woke mob lynching her just for defending me in a shocking episode that shames the Cowardly Broadcasting System and should horrify anyone who values free speech
By PIERS MORGAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:49 EDT, 29 March 2021 | UPDATED: 10:26 EDT, 29 March 2021
Imagine for a moment that I went on stage in a comedy club and said: 'There's still two rules in the f****** Morgan family: Don't marry somebody black and don't park in front of our house.'
Then imagine that a black female member of the audience sitting in the front took exception to my horribly racist remark, stood up and flipped me her middle finger.
Then imagine me turning on that black woman and sneering: 'Sit your f****** a** down. I'm talking, b****. You paid to see a show, sit your a** down. [If] you can't take a joke, you're at the wrong motherf****** place. You got two choices…sit your f****** a** down or get the f*** out of here.'
Then imagine me continuing to rant 'I'm going to make that choice for you – get the f*** out of here. Bye. Bye. Bye', at which point the black woman and her friends get up and leave the venue.
Then imagine me, two days later, doubling down on the incident when it provoked public uproar and tweeting: 'You have 2 choices, have a good day or get the f*** out.'
I've been friends with Sharon for over 20 years, and we became particularly close when we worked together for five seasons on America's Got Talent. She's one of the smartest, feistiest, funniest and most outrageous people I know - and I love her for it. What you see with Sharon is what you get, on and off camera. Like me, she's incredibly opinionated and loves a good argument
In 2017, comedian George Lopez (pictured above with Sheryl Underwood) appeared on stage in Phoenix, Arizona, where he said: 'There's still two rules in the f****** Latino family: Don't marry somebody black and don't park in front of our house'. A black female member of the audience sitting in the front took exception to his horribly racist remark, stood up and flipped him her middle finger. Sheryl Underwood defended him on The Talk
Now imagine my friend Sharon Osbourne appearing on her hit show The Talk two days after that tweet, defending me and also mocking the woman by blaming HER for the abuse she endured and saying: 'I would have said, 'b****, that's why nobody's going to marry you cause you talking in my show'.'
That would be outrageous, right?
I mean, it would be incontrovertible evidence of Sharon publicly supporting a racist, sexist, misogynist pig who had shockingly abused a young black woman.
And frankly, she would have deserved to be fired for it.
But obviously, I didn't do or say any of those things.
And nor did Sharon Osbourne.
No, it was Latino comedian George Lopez who racially abused the black woman at a gig in Phoenix, Arizona in February 2017.
And the person on The Talk who mounted such a passionate defence of his appalling behavior was Sheryl Underwood, one of Sharon's long-time co-hosts.
Underwood, herself a black woman, told the panel: 'Once you throw up the bird twice and you are in the first few rows, you have now inserted yourself into the show and it depends on the mood of the comic on how they handle it. I am pro-black female, but if you put yourself into it, you goin' get lit up. I would've said: 'b****, that's why nobody's going to marry you cause you talking in my show.'
In other words, the black female victim of the sickening abuse had it coming for reacting badly to a disgusting racist slur and deserved all the abuse she got.
CBS, which fired Sharon, is the same CBS that allowed Meghan and Harry to spray-gun the British royals and media with all sorts of unsubstantiated highly damaging garbage, the veracity of which has been unravelling faster than Sharon Osbourne was jettisoned at the altar of politically correct bullsh**
It's hard to imagine a more shameful thing to say on national television but Ms Underwood was applauded for it by the audience and suffered no disciplinary action from her CBS bosses.
Now cut forward four years to the episode of The Talk that aired on CBS on March 10, the day after I quit my UK breakfast show Good Morning Britain after refusing to apologize for disbelieving Meghan Markle's disingenuous load of fact-devoid baloney in her lengthy Oprah whine-athon with Prince Harry, much of which has now been proved to be untrue.
Sharon Osbourne had tweeted her support for me, saying: 'I am with you. I stand by you. People forget that you're paid for your opinion and that you're just speaking your truth.'
And Sheryl Underwood wasn't happy with her about it.
'What would you say to people,' she demanded, 'who say that while you're standing by your friend, you appear to be giving validation or a safe haven to something he has uttered that is racist?'
Sharon Osbourne had tweeted her support for me, saying: 'I am with you. I stand by you. People forget that you're paid for your opinion and that you're just speaking your truth.'
Sheryl Underwood wasn't happy with Sharon for tweeting her support. 'What would you say to people,' she demanded, 'who say that while you're standing by your friend, you appear to be giving validation or a safe haven to something he has uttered that is racist?' This was a staggering, bare-faced lie
The person on The Talk who mounted such a passionate defence of Lopez's appalling behavior was Sheryl Underwood, one of Sharon's long-time co-hosts. She appeared on The Talk and mocked the woman by blaming HER for the abuse she endured and saying: 'I would have said, 'b****, that's why nobody's going to marry you cause you talking in my show'
This was a staggering, bare-faced lie.
I've never said a single thing about Meghan Markle that could possibly be construed as racist, either in print or on television.
In fact, the only time I've ever mentioned her race has been to repeatedly say how great it was that a bi-racial woman was marrying into the very white British royal family.
It's true that having once been friendly with her, I've been very critical of her in the past three years because I believe she's a fake virtue-signalling hypocrite who ruthlessly exploits her royal titles for financial gain.
But none of that honestly held opinion is based on anything to do with her skin color. I've been equally critical of Harry for his own ludicrous antics and he's white.
Sharon was stunned by Underwood's question.
'Tell me what he said that's racist?' she retorted, several times, but Underwood was unable to say because she knows I never have.
'It is not the exact words of racism,' she eventually clarified. 'It's the implication and reaction to it. To not want to address that because she is a black woman, and to try to dismiss it or make it seem less than what it is. That's what makes it racist.'
So, let me get this straight: to disbelieve Meghan Markle, even when she's demonstrably lying about very serious and incredibly damaging claims – her son Archie was NOT banned from being a Prince because of his skin color, just as she's now admitted they didn't get secretly married three days before their wedding - is now an automatic confirmation of racism?
'I don't understand,' said a bemused Sharon. 'If Piers doesn't like someone, and they happen to be black, does that make him a racist?'
'No,' said Underwood.
'Right, so why can't it be he just doesn't like her? Why does it have to be racist?'
Underwood didn't answer.
Instead, she said: 'I don't want anybody here to watch this and think we're attacking you for being racist.'
Sharon chuckled ruefully. 'I think it's too late, that seed's already sown.'
Yes, it had been, just as the seed had been sown about my own supposed racism with zero evidence to support it.
And it was done very deliberately, and utterly disgracefully.
As a result of their emotion-charged debate, during which Sharon became understandably enraged by the sheer injustice of seeing a friend who she knows isn't racist being branded a racist with nothing to back it up, and seeing herself smeared in the process as a racist-sympathiser, she's now been forced out of her job at The Talk after ten years in which she's been by far its biggest star and most interesting panellist.
I've been friends with Sharon for over 20 years, and we became particularly close when we worked together for five seasons on America's Got Talent.
She's one of the smartest, feistiest, funniest and most outrageous people I know - and I love her for it.
What you see with Sharon is what you get, on and off camera.
Like me, she's incredibly opinionated and loves a good argument.
As she told DailyMail.com last week: 'Piers and I have got a great friendship. But we fight—we have huge fights. I've slapped Piers. Piers has seen my breasts! We get drunk together, we argue a lot over things we don't agree on but at the end of the day, that's it. I don't agree with his opinion all the way, I don't. But the difference is, he knows Meghan and I don't. The guy has a right to his opinion – I'm sure I say things and he goes, she's f****** nuts!'
(Factcheck: I do.)
I've also appeared many times with her on The Talk, including last October when ironically, I warned of the increasingly sinister cancel culture that was destroying free speech.
'I never want to have an argument with someone like Sharon,' I said, 'and then say at the end, right because I don't agree with you, I want you fired from The Talk immediately. That is not democracy.'
'I agree with him,' said…. Sheryl Underwood!
Yet here we are, just five months later, and the same Sheryl Underwood's sat back and watched Sharon Osbourne get driven off the show for disagreeing with her, after deliberately rattling her cage with a fake racism slur against me.
It's an absolute disgrace and given how Underwood defended HER friend George Lopez when he DID say racist things that were caught on camera, it's disgustingly hypocritical of her.
As is the behaviour of CBS, the Cowardly Broadcasting System, who've so pathetically bowed to the woke mob illiberally baying for blood like a bunch of crazed language-policing fascists.
In their statement announcing Sharon's departure, CBS made it clear she was leaving specifically for what happened on that episode and not because of any of the other historic allegations of alleged inappropriate behaviour made against her by aggrieved former panel members, all of which Sharon vehemently denies.
CBS said: 'The events of the March 10 broadcast were upsetting to everyone involved, including the audience watching at home. As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon's behavior toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace.'
What a load of sanctimonious, two-faced twaddle.
So, it's OK for Sheryl Underwood to passionately defend someone who spews racist abuse at a black woman, but it's not OK for Sharon Osbourne to passionately defend someone who didn't?
This is such an outrageous double standard.
And how can it even be happening in a country so proud of its First Amendment constitutional right to free speech?
But then, this is the same CBS that allowed Meghan and Harry to spray-gun the British royals and media with all sorts of unsubstantiated highly damaging garbage, the veracity of which has been unravelling faster than Sharon Osbourne was jettisoned at the altar of politically correct bullsh*t.
As a result of the emotion-charged debate between Sheryl (far left) and Sharon (center), during which Sharon became understandably enraged by the sheer injustice of seeing a friend who she knows isn't racist being branded a racist with nothing to back it up, and seeing herself smeared in the process as a racist-sympathiser, she's now been forced out of her job at The Talk after ten years in which she's been by far its biggest star and most interesting panellist
Oprah Winfrey barely challenged a word her two friends said, leaving Americans and the woefully gullible US media to assume every sensational bombshell of self-serving tittle-tattle was fact when much of it wasn't.
It's hard to overstate the pain and hurt these claims have caused the Queen, and to make it even worse, they were made at a time when her 99-year-old husband Prince Philip lay seriously ill in hospital.
This sham of an 'interview' was a shameful betrayal of journalistic standards by CBS.
And when it comes to the company's 'values', this is the same CBS which has just given a platform to shamed film director Woody Allen to dismiss serious sex abuse allegations made by his daughter Dylan.
They seem to specialise in allowing people to peddle THEIR version of the truth without any regard for what THE truth may be.
Sharon Osbourne was entitled to defend me without being deemed a racist.
Just as I was entitled not to believe Meghan Markle without being deemed a racist.
The fact we've both lost our jobs is not just an appalling attack on free speech, but it's also a terrible indictment of woke cancel culture bullsh*t and the stinking hypocrisy that lies at the heart of it.
Every journalist and commentator in America should be as incensed as I am about this, because they could all be next.
how are people shocked by this? sharon osbourne comes from a heavy metal culture. metal has never been an open or comfortable place for black people.
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Is this when Mama Kardashian swoops in and saves the show?
These two will have their own show on ITV soon i bet..called PIERS & SHARONPiers Morgan says Sharon Osbourne was entitled to defend him 'without being deemed a racist'
The broadcast journalist wrote an editorial for the Daily Mail in which he defended Osbourne after her departure from 'The Talk.'
By Ruth Kinane
March 29, 2021 at 10:53 AM EDT
These two will have their own show on ITV soon i bet..called PIERS & SHARON
bro please don't even talk this possibility into existence
It’s never their fault. Never. But they never have that empathy for non white others. There’s always a story about accountability.