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50 things you missed about Sharon Osbourne.
1. Sharon Rachel Osbourne is an English television host, media personality, television talent competition judge, author, music manager, businesswoman, and promoter, and the wife of heavy metal singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne.
2. Osbourne first came into public prominence after appearing in The Osbournes, a reality television show that followed her family's daily life.
3. Sharon Osbourne later became a talent show judge on shows such as the British and original version of The X Factor, from 2004 to 2007; before returning in 2013, and America's Got Talent from 2007 until 2012.
4. After the success of The Osbournes and The X Factor, hosting her own chat shows and securing advertising contracts, Osbourne was ranked as the 25th richest woman in Britain on the 2009 Sunday Times Rich List.
5. As of 2008, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, were ranked as the 724th richest people in Britain with an estimated joint wealth of £110 million.
6. Sharon Osbourne is credited with reviving her husband's heavy metal career by founding the summer Ozzfest tour.
7. In September 2014 it was announced that Sharon would become an occasional panellist on the British lunchtime television programme Loose Women as part of the shows relaunch.
8. Sharon Osbourne was born Sharon Rachel Arden in Brixton, London, the daughter of music promoter and rock and roll entrepreneur Don Arden, and his wife Hope Shaw. She has a brother David, and a half-brother Richard and a half-sister Dixie, who are both 10 years older than Osbourne, from her mother's previous marriage.
9. Her father was Jewish and her mother was of an Irish Catholic background.
10. Sharon Osbourne is the wife and manager of Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, and together they have three children: Aimee, Kelly and Jack.
11. After colon cancer claimed Osbourne's friend, Reagan Erin Marcato, who died in July 2002, she told the BBC that she had adopted Marcato's 18-year-old son Robert, but she denied legally adopting him five years later when he was sent to live with his father after a nervous breakdown.
12. Arden met future husband Ozzy Osbourne at the age of 18 while working for her father, Don Arden, who managed Black Sabbath.
13. When Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, she took over his management from the Arden organisation and then started to date Ozzy.
14. Sharon Osbourne coordinated the recruitment of a technically gifted backing band (Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley, and Lee Kerslake) for the recording of The Blizzard of Ozz and, by engaging proven songwriters, helped Ozzy launch what became a successful solo career.
15. In 1996, Osbourne created the Ozzfest summer touring festival. It went on to become a regular rock occasion and celebrated a 10th anniversary in 2006. By 2007, the ticket prices had reached £76 ($150) and Osbourne announced that the tickets would be free to allow more people the opportunity to attend the concert.
16. Prior to the founding of Ozzfest, Osbourne approached Lollapalooza, another rock/pop festival, to request that Ozzy play at that year's festival, only to be rejected and told that Ozzy was "uncool" and too drugged up. It was then that she decided to launch her own festival.
17. Controversy ensued when she pulled the plug on Iron Maiden's set three times in one performance. She also harassed the singer, Bruce Dickinson, and threw eggs at the band.
18. In light of her success managing her husband, Osbourne branched out into managing other acts by creating Sharon Osbourne Management.
19. The new company, with Osbourne as its sole employee, managed artists such as Gary Moore, Motörhead, Lita Ford, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Coal Chamber.
20. Sharon Osbourne co-managed a band called Cube, with Cud guitarist Mike Dunphy. Cube were signed to Polydor Records but had limited success.
21. Sharon Osbourne has also turned down career guidance requests from Fred Durst, Guns N' Roses, and Courtney Love.
22. Sharon Osbourne gained celebrity status as one of the stars of MTV's reality show, The Osbournes, which followed her family's daily life and had a national audience.
23. As the person who negotiated with MTV to screen the show, she is often credited with bringing about her husband's emergence from heavy metal icon into mainstream celebrity.
24. The show began airing in early 2002, and when, in July 2002, Osbourne was diagnosed with cancer, she insisted that filming should continue.
25. The final episode of the show aired in the US on 21 March 2005. MTV's British affiliate has been airing the show since 2003. The show brought MTV its highest ratings ever in both America and Britain.
26. The Osbournes' Beverly Hills home (made famous on the show) has since been sold and the Osbournes have taken up residence in another home in Beverly Hills.
27. Her Beverly Hills home was later seen in The X Factor during series two.
28. The show saw that Osbourne was responsible for the livelihood of 12 dogs and employs a dog walker named Cherie. From the mid-1990s until the end of The Osbournes in 2005, she was primarily based in Los Angeles with the rest of her family. Osbourne earned an estimated £11.5 million from The Osbournes.
29. In 2003, Osbourne became the host of her own television talk show, The Sharon Osbourne Show, which was syndicated to various US channels and also shown in the UK on Sky One. The show was meant to be a reflection of her personality and home life - similar to her reality show but with the inclusion of guest interviews and performances.
30. In 2006, UK TV network ITV commissioned a new Sharon Osbourne chat show, initially to be called Mrs Osbourne Presents, but eventually just named The Sharon Osbourne Show.
31. Sharon Osbourne was a judge and mentor on the UK's The X Factor every year, from 2004 through to 2007.
32. Sharon Osbourne joined the judging panel on the second season of America's Got Talent, along with Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff, replacing the singer Brandy.
33. Sharon Osbourne hosted the second season of Rock of Love: Charm School with co-hosts Riki Rachtman and Daniella Clarke on VH1.
34. Sharon Osbourne's first autobiography, Extreme (co-authored by Penelope Dening), was published in October 2005 and tells of her difficult childhood growing up with her father, Don Arden, and also documents the highs and lows of her marriage to husband Ozzy Osbourne, shedding light on areas of her life previously not commented on.
35. Published by Time WarnerBooks, it went to Number 1 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List (UK) where it remained for 15 weeks and sold over 621,000 copies in hardback, becoming the biggest-selling autobiography since British records began, beating the previous record set by David Beckham's autobiography by 100,000 copies.
36. Sharon Osbourne later released another autobiography named Survivor, the title coming from surviving cancer. It was released in 2007.
37. Sharon Osbourne has stated that the biggest mistake of her life was to have an abortion. By her account, pressure from others, principally her mother, influenced her decision at the age of seventeen to pursue the procedure.
38. Osbourne's father, Don Arden, was a rock and roll entrepreneur who managed Black Sabbath and sacked Ozzy Osbourne from the group. He resented his daughter for dating Ozzy and managing his career.
39. Sharon Osbourne revealed she was surrounded by violence during her childhood and that it was a normal occurrence to see her father threatening someone, or brandishing a firearm.
40. In an interview in 2001, she commented that her father has never seen her children and that "he never will". They were reunited in 2001 and he then had a role in their reality show The Osbournes. In August 2004 Osbourne stated her father had Alzheimer's disease and she paid for his care in the last years of his life.
41. Sharon Osbourne (then Sharon Arden) met her future husband Ozzy at the age of 18, whilst working for her father, Don Arden, who was managing Black Sabbath at the time. When Ozzy was sacked from Black Sabbath in 1979, Arden started to date him and took over his management as a solo artist. The two were married in Maui, Hawaii, on 4 July 1982.
42. For years, the Osbourne marriage was plagued by alcohol, drug use, and violence, with Osbourne having even been arrested for driving while intoxicated.
43. The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would "beat." She has described herself as "a beaten woman" when she was at the hands of husband Ozzy where he once knocked out her front teeth.
44. In 2004, Osbourne's home in Jordans, Buckinghamshire was burgled where a man stole gems worth £2 million. The burglar managed to get away with the gems despite being put in a headlock by Ozzy.
45. In March 2005, there was an incident in the Osbournes' mansion in Jordans, Buckinghamshire. Ozzy and Sharon were forced to flee their mansion when a blaze broke out as they slept. They were not injured but had to be treated for smoke inhalation.
46. In 1999 Osbourne lost 100 pounds (45 kg) after lap-band surgery (adjustable gastric band).
47. On 26 October 2006, she went on the Howard Stern Show and revealed that she gained 15 pounds in the last year, and that she will be having her plastic band removed.
48. In July 2002, Osbourne had surgery for cancer, specifying only that it was a treatable form and that she was due to have the procedure in the US. She announced it was colon cancer and had spread to her lymph nodes and was more serious than originally thought. She survived the disease against a 33% survival prognosis.
49. Despite battling cancer, she insisted that the MTV cameras document her illness during the filming of the second season of The Osbournes.
50. She has freely admitted to having extensive cosmetic surgery.
Source: Wikipedia.org
