Sharon Osbourne

[Guest Big Arse]

Sharon Osbourne

 

Sharon Osbourne (born 1952) is the wife of famous singer Ozzy Osbourne, and the mother of Jack Osbourne and budding singer Kelly Osbourne.

 

Osbourne, a native of England, has also gained wild celebrity herself after the beginning of MTV's reality show, The Osbournes. She was the person who negociated with MTV so that MTV would tape a show around her family's daily life, therefore, she is often credited with her husband's resurgence in pop culture. The show began airing in 2001 and is still on the American television airwaves. MTV's British affiliate, known as MTV Europe, has been airing the show since 2003.

 

Also in 2001, Osbourne was diagnosed with colon cancer. Recently, she announced her cancer has spread to her lymph nodes.

[BirdieNumNums 12]

Ohh, thats a good nomination, I came in here to nominate her in fact. Lets see what the powers that be reckon about Shazza!

[Guest Guest]

wow how prophetic http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=101124&page=1

[Guest Guest]

Maybe I don't quite get that but IS SHE really dead?

[VSBfromH 74]

Hmm...

 

I knocked the number in the link down by 1 and got the Christopher Reeve write up (probably this is how our correspondent found the "news" on Sharon).

 

We will have to wait and see!

 

Will try a few others...

 

P.S. Is ABC the news channel that uses a slogan something like "We don't just break the news, we make the news" - could this be an example?

[VSBfromH 74]

Here's your answer:

 

Oops!

 

Somebody's gonna get a few choice words from Ozzy!

[Guest Confused]

I don't seem to get those abcnews-links open. So it's not true?

[VSBfromH 74]

Apparently not! Watch the X-Factor tonight and check she's not been digitally inserted.

 

On the other hand, you may have more productive ways to spend your time, such as squeezing a zit

[VSBfromH 74]

The reason you can't get the page is that it ABC have realised they've made a seious guff and had it removed!

 

Well done to our unregistered Guest and MSN for spotting it earlier though!

 

If anyone's STILL confused, they had an obituary page for her on their website - looks like they had a dummy one ready for her eventual demise and they'd published it by mistake!

 

And people accuse us of being ghoulish!!!

[VileBody 11]

I suppose O is quite close to R alphabetically so maybe someone clicked on the wrong pre-prepared obit to insert...

[Guest technological]

I happen to have the page for the ABC Obit open still on my computer. So here it is!

 

 

 

Sharon Osbourne XX of XX.

 

Sharon Osbourne, best known as the woman who saved Ozzy Osbourne from himself, XXX today of XXX. She was XX.

 

Wife and business manager of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne, a.k.a. the Prince of Bleeping Darkness, Sharon lived in backstage obscurity until her family's wildly popular MTV reality show, The Osbournes, catapulted her to household-name status. Her XXX today of XXX was?.

 

Sharon, Ozzy and two of their three teenage children, Jack, 18 and Kelly, 17, played out their chaotic yet happy daily lives for an audience of millions - one episode pulled in 7.8 million viewers, the most for any show in the history of the network. They also won an Emmy award for Best Reality TV Show.

 

Off-screen, just weeks after negotiating an astronomical $20 million dollar contract for a second season of The Osbournes, Sharon was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The show went on, though, filming throughout her illness and treatment.

 

Though she struggled with addictions to food, drugs and alcohol, Sharon was known for her business savvy and nerves of steel. Starting in the late 1970s, she hauled Ozzy out of a debilitating drug addiction, took over his career and helped him sell more than 70 million solo albums. When Ozzy was rejected by Lollapalooza, she created the Ozzfest metal tour, which turned out to be the largest grossing group concert in history. Sharon also hatched the idea for The Osbournes and was the family's fiercest contract negotiator throughout.

 

 

Rock n' Roll Roots

 

With a father who was a concert producer and band manager and a mother who danced, Sharon grew up steeped in London's entertainment industry. Sharon's father, the hard-bitten Don Arden, managed bands such as Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath, Ozzy's original heavy metal band. Sharon dropped out of school at 15 to work for her him.

 

Ozzy and Sharon's romance began in 1979, when Sharon went to collect $500 that Ozzy owed her father. Having been kicked out of Black Sabbath for excessive substance abuse, Sharon found Ozzy at a Beverly Hills hotel, bottomed out from a six-month cocaine binge. "He was so vulnerable and sweet and honest," she told People. "He was a bit of an oddball. But he was really, really loving."

 

Furious with her for poaching a client - especially one who owed him money - Sharon's father attempted to have her killed and they did not speak for 20 years.

 

During those years, Sharon struggled with her weight and Ozzy's addictions. At the lowest point in his struggle, Ozzy attacked Sharon one night in a drug-induced haze and tried to strangle her. "Eminem talks about killing his wife, but my husband actually tried it," Sharon told British tabloids. The incident landed Ozzy in a six-month round of rehab, though even today, he continues to drink and take prescription drugs.

 

In 1999, when 225 pounds had settled on Sharon's 5'2" frame, she underwent a new surgical procedure to shrink her stomach. It helped her drop 95 pounds, restricting her to small amounts of food at a time. "In my life I've seen the way people react to fat people. Somebody once said that it's more accepted to be a drug addict than it is to the fat, and it's true," Sharon told Barbara Walters.

 

Doctors say this weight-loss procedure had nothing to do with her subsequent cancer.

 

At the height of The Osbournes popularity, Sharon was included in People's Most Beautiful People issue in 2002.

 

When she was diagnosed with cancer, her family was shattered. Filming the show during this difficult time was more straining than they had thought. "Ozzy's been hitting the bottle again and the cameras are here all the time?" Sharon told Barbara Walters on 20/20. "So we have no privacy? You know when you're sick and you want to be on your own? And I can't throw up on my own and Ozzy can't get drunk on his own."

 

 

Osbournes No Osmonds

 

The family's on-screen, "ordinary" lives made the Addams Family seem like the Osmonds — they in fact parodied the wholesome duo for a Pepsi Superbowl ad this year. Their regular-yet-shocking family antics were punctuated by the constant bleep of the censor, with Sharon remaining the sane and stable mom throughout. When the family pooch had bowel problems, she called in the pet therapist; when things got ugly with the elevator-music-loving neighbors, she made nice with police.

 

The show also affected the lives of their teenage children. Kelly, 17 has put out an album, Shut up; Jack, 18 appeared on an episode of Dawson's Creek; and even the "missing" daughter, Aimee, who moved out when MTV moved in — has upped the ante on her modeling career. Sharon too, was set to host her own afternoon talk show. Alternately proud and bothered by her family's fame and lack of privacy, Sharon surprised MTV executives by telling Barbara Walters the show would end after the second season. She quickly recovered from the gaffe by publicly announcing, "I love my MTV."

 

"You're not as normal as I think you are when I'm talking to you," Walters once told Sharon, aptly capturing the essence of her allure. When Ozzy once bit off the head of a dove during a tense moment with record company executives, Sharon defended him, "He was meant to take it out of his pockets as a show of peace."

 

Sharon also occasionally surprised her foes with Tiffany boxes full of feces. She also told People about her meeting with Queen Elizabeth: "She was very warm and amazingly down-to-earth, and I just told her that she had great t*%&, 'cause she does."

 

To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Sharon and her dark prince renewed their wedding vows in a New Year's Eve ceremony. The official day of their anniversary is July 4th. Sharon once joked, "I wanted to pick a day Ozzy would remember."

 

Osbourne is survived by her husband Ozzy and three children, Kelly, Jack and Aimee.

[Stayin Alive 26]

A very interesting discovery, guest.

 

Could this be a Deathlist exclusive? There doesn't appear to be anything coming back from the rudimentary google searches, at this time.

[Guest petro]

all the info is here ---> ABC: Sharon Osbourne Dead?

[VSBfromH 74]

Kudos to Petro and Technological for their sterling work!

 

Wonder if Sharon's got wind of all this yet?

[Siren 1]

Fabulous idea for a song though...

[Guest Emma]

She isnt dead, the abc page had already writen up a article for if she died from the cancer and someone accidentally put it on the site so now everyone thinks she is dead but she aint

[Siren 1]

She isnt dead, the abc page had already writen up a article for if she died from the cancer and someone accidentally put it on the site so now everyone thinks she is dead but she aint

I feel better now that someone has just cleared it up for certain... Would have never figured that out on my own...

[Death Watch Beatle 41]

Here is an interesting interview with the lady herself, in which she discusses cancer, cures and that obit ...

 

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...-name_page.html

 

... and one of the longest URLs in history.

 

DWB

[Guest steph]

hi i'm called steph and me and my mate jenn have been macking a video of us sining most of my friends think we are good at singing.we really want to post are video to sharon or ozzy osbourne but we can't find a address to send it to so she will watch the video . please please help!

[The Yeti 14]

OK.

Its making not macking, its singing not sining (or even sinning, though that can be tried), its our not are.

Its my mate & I not me and my mate.

And you need a few capital letters and full stops.

[weatherman90 7]

If you would read what deathlist is about, you would know that we don't know any more about where the Osbournes live than anyone else. We are not in any way affiliated with celebrities, we simply predict their deaths.

[Josco 49]

We are not in any way affiliated with celebrities, we simply predict their deaths.

 

Predict? That is clever. Maybe guess, hope or (in Sharons case) pray.

[weatherman90 7]

We are not in any way affiliated with celebrities, we simply predict their deaths.

 

Predict? That is clever. Maybe guess, hope or (in Sharons case) pray.

You're praying for Sharon's death? That's plain wrong.

[Teddy 21]

We are not in any way affiliated with celebrities, we simply predict their deaths.

 

Predict? That is clever. Maybe guess, hope or (in Sharons case) pray.

You're praying for Sharon's death? That's plain wrong.

Have to agree with weatherman (and that really hurts )

 

You shouldn't be praying. What you need is a voodoo doll, and a lot of pins

[Stayin Alive 26]

Maybe with the voodoo doll though, we could try and work Roger Moore into the thread, with tedious linkage into Live & Let Die. Hey, what about that black dude that was in L&LD? Is he still playing with his snake? Maybe he is out waking the dead still - in which case we need to talk to him.