The notoriously outspoken TV personality on her childhood, facelifts and her beloved husband, Ozzy
By Simon Button
PROMISING TO REVEAL all about her most eventful of lives, Sharon Osbourne is taking to stages in London and Birmingham with a show she’s calling Cut the Crap. It’s not just an attention-grabbing title. It’s also one of her mantras.
“And especially here,” Osbourne tells me down the phone from the Los Angeles home she and her legendary rockstar husband Ozzy are in the process of vacating. “People talk so much crap in America.”
Is that why the couple, who have been married for 41 sometimes rocky years, are moving to Buckinghamshire, where they have a Grade II listed bolthole? “No, because after all these years I’m used to it, but they do speak such rubbish,” says Sharon, who has spent more than two decades in California.
She’s not a fan of people expressing every single thought and feeling and using phrases like “I feel this” and “my truth”. I can’t see her face but I imagine this most no-nonsense of women is grimacing as she rants: “It’s all so f*****g precious, isn’t it? All these clichéd lines. Oh, please shut up!”.
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Sharon and Ozzy will have moved back to Britain and she’ll barely have time to unpack before the shows, where she’ll be “live and uncensored on stage” as she is interviewed about everything from drunken fights with her husband and his infidelity to her cancer battle and ongoing struggles with mental health issues.
She’ll then be opening it up to questions from the audience and the always-candid 71-year-old promises no topic is off the table. “Everything is an open book,” she says, her distinct English accent unaltered by all that time in the States. “I’ve always shared everything. If anybody asks, I’ll tell them the truth.”
Where, I wonder aloud, does that breathtaking honesty come from? “It’s just the way that I am. I’m very confrontational but I don’t hold grudges. I say what I feel and then, you know, I’m still your friend. But I can’t help myself. It’s like a kind of Tourette’s. It just comes out.”
Revisiting her past is more cathartic than traumatic and if anyone asks about Ozzy’s cheating on her (he had an affair with his hairdresser in 2016) she’ll answer candidly “because it helps other people who are going through something similar, doesn’t it?”. The businessw
