Sharon Osbourne Nonetheless Calls Her Firing From The Speak “Unfair”

Sharon Osbourne nonetheless has loads to say.

Throughout an look on Fox & Associates Weekends on Sept. 25, Osbourne addressed her firing from the CBS daytime chat present The Speak in March 2021, which got here after her staunch protection of controversial feedback made by Piers Morgan about Meghan Markle.

“I’ve labored on this trade for 50 years, really, 55,” Osbourne mentioned. “I did not need that to be the tip of my profession, and I assumed it was unfair.” 

On the time, Osbourne stood up for her good friend Morgan who, after Markle’s headline-making primetime interview with Oprah Winfrey, argued that Markle might have been mendacity about her struggles with psychological well being, saying, “I would not imagine it if [Markle] learn me the climate report.”

The Speak co-host Sheryl Underwood deemed Morgan’s feedback “racist,” which culminated in a heated on-air dialogue. Osbourne finally left the present weeks later after an inner evaluation.

“[Piers] just isn’t racist. I am not racist. However as a result of he mentioned one thing about any person who’s combined race, is that the suitable phrase?” Osbourne questioned throughout her Fox & Associates look. “He is deemed racist and that is not honest.”

The interior evaluation additionally uncovered allegations made by former The Speak co-host Holly Robinson-Peete, who alleged Osbourne known as her “too ghetto” for the chat present, and former co-host Leah Remini, who alleged Osbourne steadily use racially-charged language when referencing host Julie Chen Moonves.

Osbourne denied all allegations made towards her, together with her rep Howard Bragman saying in an announcement to E! Information, “The one factor worse than a disgruntled former worker is a disgruntled former discuss present host.”