SHARON Osbourne is excited to be coming home to the UK and revealed the true reason for her return.
Former X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne will host the prime-time series on weekday nights following Piers Morgan’s flagship slot on brand new TV channel TalkTV.
She and rocker husband Ozzy are returning to live in the UK, though they will be going back and forth to the US to see their grandchildren.
“It feels right. I’ve been very homesick for a while and it’s a joy to go back. I’m really excited about it,” Sharon said at a TalkTV press event.
“This a whole new thing for me to be involved from the beginning of a network.”
She added: “This is just basically the news with different people views on it, experts mainly, and I’m not an expert but I’ve definitely got an opinion on everything.
“It’s new, it’s innovative and it’s a place for everyone that’s interested in what’s going on in the world to go to without being told what they should be thinking.”
Following her sudden departure from US panel show The Talk last year, Sharon explained her show’s stars should be able to talk about issues even if they don’t always see eye-to-eye.
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Sharon will be presenting a new hour-long panel debate show, that will bring together five opinionated famous faces – all from different backgrounds and with differing views – to debate the most interesting stories of the day.
“We’re not telling anybody that they should be thinking the way we think. We’re just opening up the conversation for people to talk at home even after we finish talking,” Sharon explained.
“It’s friendly debate, friendly discussion and I’m not talking we’re going to sit there arm in arm.”
Sharon was also looking forward to a change of working style in the UK.
“I don’t like those shows that they produce over here (in America) where if you don’t agree they start slinging chairs at each other and calling each other out,” she explained.
“It’s not personal, it’s somebody’s opinion so if you don’t like it, you tell the person why you don’t like it and why you don’t agree with them and you move on.
“Nothing is off the table and we’re just finding a place where you can discuss these things in an adult way and not fear of being let go.”
Last month, Sharon, 69, spilt the beans in an exclusive chat opened up on the on-air dust-up that ended her 11-year career on a US daytime TV talk show.
A year ago, Sharon was riding high as one of the big names on US chat show The Talk.
She had been there for 11 years, had her own dressing room and was surrounded by people who not only watched her back but, in many cases, had become firm friends.
But on March 10, 2021, it took just 20 minutes of live television for it all to come crashing down.
And it was all because she defended her friend and former Britain’s Got Talent co-star Piers Morgan’s right to express the opinion he “didn’t believe a word” Meghan Markle had said during her infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The TV discussion, however, suddenly took a different turn when fellow panellist Sheryl Underwood asked her: “What would you say to people who may feel that, while you are standing by your friend, it appears that you gave validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that is racist, even if you don’t agree?”
The insinuation that she was somehow condoning racism “blind-sided” Sharon.
After the incident, The Talk was put on hiatus for a month and Sharon suggested doing a one-off special with experts in racism and sensitivity training “going through what we all said and coming to a conclusion so the viewer could make their own decision”.
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CBS eventually issued a statement saying: “Sharon Osbourne has decided to leave The Talk.
“As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon’s behaviour toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace.”
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