Sharon Osbourne joins Piers Morgan’s talkTV network
Sharon Osbourne’s acquired a brand new gig. The previous “The Speak” co-host is becoming a member of Piers Morgan’s new talkTV community, the pair introduced Thursday. “What I’m actually searching for in my co-workers at talkTV is someone who’s, properly, a bit like me,” Morgan, 56, teased in a video posted to Twitter. “Very opinionated,…
Sharon Osbourne’s acquired a brand new gig.
The previous “The Speak” co-host is becoming a member of Piers Morgan’s new talkTV community, the pair introduced Thursday.
“What I’m actually searching for in my co-workers at talkTV is someone who’s, properly, a bit like me,” Morgan, 56, teased in a video posted to Twitter.
“Very opinionated, fearless, humorous, is aware of their very own thoughts, not afraid to talk it, unpredictable. Perhaps slightly bit harmful. But additionally someone who, each time they open their gobby little mouth, it makes international information.”
Osbourne, 69, then slid into the body and requested, “The place do I signal, Piers?”
The previous “Osbournes” star additionally shared the video to her Instagram account.
“I despatched my resume….” she captioned the publish.
Osbourne will host a “present affairs present” on talkTV known as, unusually sufficient, “The Talk.” If that weren’t coincidental sufficient, the brand new present will “convey collectively 5 opinionated well-known faces, all from totally different backgrounds and with differing views, to debate essentially the most fascinating tales of the day.”
This would be the former MTV actuality star’s first job since she exited CBS’ “The Speak” in March 2021 with a $5 million to $10 million payout after allegations of racist habits.
Her departure got here after she acquired into an on-air spat with co-host Sheryl Underwood over Osbourne’s protection of Morgan, who give up “Good Morning Britain” after criticizing Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey.
After the heated on-air debate, Osbourne tweeted a prolonged apology by which she mentioned she doesn’t “condone racism, misogyny or bullying.”
However then a bombshell report got here out accusing Osbourne of behind-the-scenes racist habits, together with allegedly referring to former “Speak” moderator Julie Chen, who’s Chinese language American, as a “wonton” and “slanty eyes” and to former co-host Sara Gilbert, who’s a lesbian, as a “p—y licker.”
However Osbourne responded that the allegations had been “crap, all crap.”