We’ve heard all sorts of stories about problems on that ensemble women’s talk show, The Talk. Since none of us watch it or particularly care about any of the people involved, we’ve just pointed and laughed. This is another story about nonsense with that show although the gossip gets better. The Talk is run by Julie Chen, who is said to be a bossy bitch and to have caused co-hosts Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini to leave after the first season. (Side note: There were rumors that Kate Gosselin might be joining them, but I just read that Molly Shannon is a new co-host this next season and we’ve already heard that Kris Jenner is a fill-in host.)

Sharon Osbourne and her Madame face are still on that mess since she’s contractually obligated or something, although she’s “taking a break” soon. But she’s scheming to produce another talk show behind Julie Chen’s back (or not so much, after this report) and it will include her fired former co-hosts Lean Remini and Holly Robinson Peete! This is some priceless gossip.

“The Talk” co-host Sharon Osbourne is secretly plotting to develop her own gabfest behind Julie Chen’s back!

The Enquirer has learned that Sharon has been holding hush-hush meetings with former co-hosts and close pals Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini, who were dumped from “The Talk” after one season following skirmishes with Julie.

“Sharon wants to put together a daily talk show with Leah and Holly at the helm,” divulged an insider. “It’s no secret that Sharon doesn’t want to work with Julie, but since she’s contractually bound to co-host ‘The Talk,’ she’ll only produce this new project.

“You can bet Julie won’t be happy when she hears what Sharon’s planning!…

“Sharon hopes CBS will let her out of her contract early so she and Holly and Leah can all be on TV together again.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 26, 2011]

I won’t watch either of these shows unless Joel McHale is on and takes off his shirt, but this is so awesome. I doubt that Sharon’s show will be a fraction as interesting as the news of this professional bitch fight, but still I wish her enough success to stick it to Julie. I don’t particularly like Sharon, (or Leah or Holly) but this story gave me a lot of joy this morning.

Remember that lousy talk show that Sharon Osbourne had in the early 2000s? She had a shabby chic set and was always propped up on pillows and cuddling her little dogs. Sometimes Ozzy would come on via satellite and you couldn’t understand a word that dude mumbled. It got canceled after a year and was really boring. So I doubt Sharon can helm her own show again, even with backup. Still, this will piss off her boss immensely.

Photo credit: WENN.com and Fame

Here are some new photos of Kelly and Sharon Osbourne at last night’s Hollywood screening of God Bless Ozzy Osbourne. I wasn’t even going to start with this junk, because of most of the time I end up feeling sorry for Kelly Osbourne. She’s so proud of her weight loss and she’s got a job now – on E!’s Fashion Police – and she’s clean and I should applaud her for that. But considering that Kelly is now billed as some kind of Fashion Girl, should we really expect more from her? Look at this dress! It’s hideous. It’s an edited and updated version of a Manish Arora gown (go here to see the runway look, which was hideous too). This is beyond an issue with shoulder pads – there’s padding throughout the top half of the dress! And the print is just awful. And the sleeves! For the love of God, WHY would even want to wear this? It’s not cute. It’s not “young”. It’s not flattering. It’s terrible.

Should we even talk about Sharon? She looks like she’s melting. Ladies, THIS is too much. Sharon doesn’t even look jacked or tweaked – she just looks sick.

As for the documentary, it was produced by Jack Osbourne, and it’s supposed to be pretty decent. It includes behind-the-scenes stuff about Ozzy’s rise and what he’s like on tour, and lots of Ozzy’s friends and celebrity fans are interviews, like Paul McCartney and Tommy Lee. Go here for more about the documentary.

One last thing – I did like Kelly’s shoes. And her hair color.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Do you ever watch The Talk? It’s the CBS knockoff of The View, starring a motley crew of Julie Chen, cat-faced Sharon Osbourne, Scientologist Leah Remini and out-lesbian Sara Gilbert and no-adjectives Marisa Jaret Winokur and Holly Robinson Peete. I think I’ve seen part of a few episodes, but it doesn’t really matter. All that matters is the bitchfight, and it seems like there’s something going down off-set at The Talk. I always forget that Julie Chen is married to CBS president Les Moonves – and apparently, because she’s married to the boss, she thinks she gets to order everybody around:

Julie Chen’s “queen bee attitude” is forcing the ladies of CBS’s “The Talk” to flee the daytime gab-fest after just one season. Sources say fed-up Leah Remini plans to quit on the heels of Sharon Osbourne’s bombshell that she’s taking a break. Co-host Holly Robinson Peete last week said she will not return for Season 2.

The last straw for Osbourne and Remini was Chen’s order, passed down from her master-of- the-universe husband, CBS President Les Moonves, following their South of France break, that the women were not allowed to discuss the Casey Anthony case without her because she’s the only host with journalistic credentials.

“[Julie] said, ‘My husband feels strongly that you should not be talking about news [without me], you are not news people,’ ” our source told us. “Sharon just said, ‘I don’t know about this.’ She’d had enough. ”

Despite the friction, one program insider called Chen “the glue that holds the show together” and firmly placed the blame on Remini.

“[Remini] was a disruptive force,” the source said. “She had a huge morale problem,” adding that Remini often brought her mother on set, who refused to follow studio rules.

“Her mother never parked in her assigned space,” the insider said. “She was told not to park in the lot anymore. ”

Two executive producers have abandoned the show since it began last fall. But co-host Sara Gilbert is slated to return.

A CBS spokesperson told us, “ ‘The Talk’ just finished a strong first season . . . The producers are currently working on a creative game plan for Season 2, which launches on Sept. 6.”

Osbourne’s rep said she was “not reachable.” Remini’s agent said, “I don’t believe anyone’s option has been picked up. Her mom does go to the show every day as does Sara’s mom and Holly’s mom.”

He declined to comment about the parking-lot matter because Remini couldn’t be reached by deadline.

[From Page Six]

Since I don’t really care about any of these people (well, I have some affection for Gilbert), I’m willing to believe all of it. It wouldn’t surprise me that the president’s wife was pulling rank, it wouldn’t surprise me that the Scientologist was being disruptive, and it wouldn’t surprise me that the other ladies might be trying to bail.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Kelly and Sharon Osbourne were on the Piers Morgan show last night, and as these two have done so many times before, both individually and as a unit, they critiqued someone else. At least this one isn’t likely to result in a bitchy back and forth public feud. Piers asked the combative duo what they thought about Billy Ray Cyrus trashing his daughter’s route to fame, and Kelly called it “inappropriate” while Sharon said that Miley made her dad relevant again.

MORGAN: What do you make of what’s going on at the moment in Hollywood with — there’s two interesting things I thought for you guys to talk about. One, the Charlie Sheen thing, which is ongoing. And the second thing is what Billy Ray Cyrus said about Miley Cyrus, that he wished as a parent he had never let her go down the route she’s gone down, in terms of fame and stuff.

K. OSBOURNE: I think that’s a really inappropriate thing for someone to say, especially when what they did together gave that person their career back. And it’s not fair to do that to your own child.

MORGAN: Really?

K. OSBOURNE: It’s really inappropriate thing to say.

S. OSBOURNE: I do too. I don’t think he should have done that in print. He may think it. It might be, you know –

K. OSBOURNE: He might have meant it in a different way. But in black and white, it seems so just harsh, especially because I love Miley. She’s a dear friend of mine. I know how hard she works. She works so hard. I just think that that discredits everything she’s done in her life, not just for herself, but her whole family. It’s disrespectful.

MORGAN: She’s built an incredible career for herself. She’s very young.

S. OSBOURNE: She’s very talented.

K. OSBOURNE: And him.

S. OSBOURNE: Yes, she made him relevant again.

[From Transcripts.CNN.com]

I don’t disagree with them. Last night I saw that HLN Showbiz Tonight show on in the background when I was eating out. There was no sound and I just saw the headline “Osbournes trash Billy Ray Cyrus” or something and figured they were talking smack as they always do. In reality they kind of said what a lot of people did about this controversy when it first came out. Billy Ray has since made up for this, but I don’t expect Kelly and Sharon to follow gossip as slavishly as we do and know every detail about it. Piers Morgan is stirring the pot, and you would think that he would be up on the news that Billy Ray has since backtracked from these comments.

In other Billy Ray Cyrus news, the mullet is still trying to make up for that same “Hannah Montana destroyed my family” GQ interview. He gave an interview to Parade and said that he just hopes Miley is happy. He’s no longer saying she should give up on fame. “As long as she’s happy and loving making music — and I know she loves acting — that’s all that matters.” That’s much different from saying that the show destroyed his family, that he was underpaid and that he would “erase it all [the fame] in a second if I could.”

He later explained that he was a “mess” when he did that GQ interview and compared talking to the press at that time to going grocery shopping when you’re hungry. I had a lot of respect for the guy after that and felt like he was just saying his piece and trying to do the best he could. He was hurt by the breakup of his marriage, he’s since gotten back together with his wife Tish and called off the divorce, and he’s trying to make nice now. It may have been “inappropriate” to say all that at first, but Piers didn’t do his homework by bringing up that controversy from February without mentioning that Billy Ray apologized nearly a month ago. Piers also never asked Kelly and Sharon about their separate issues with paying taxes and owing money to the government. Now that’s what I want to know about. I don’t care what they think about the royal wedding. (More on that here.)

Here’s Kelly talking about her drug problem and how she turned her life around. She has Bride of Frankenstein hair and major bulimia face! It’s like she’s piling the hair up on her head to distract from her cheeks. You don’t get those chipmunk cheeks from normal weight gain, but I guess she’s looked like that for a while. Sharon’s face looks like a mask. How long until Kelly starts messing with hers too?

These photos are from 2/12/11. Credit: WENN.com

Dannii Minogue, Kylie’s little sister and sort-of a star in her own right, (I haven’t heard much about her but I guess she’s bigger in the UK and her native Australian) has a new biography out, uncreatively titled My Story. At 38 she’s been married and divorced and had her first baby, a little boy, this summer. Minogue worked as a judge on British TV competition show The X Factor from 2007-2009 when she took time off for her pregnancy. She worked alongside Sharon Osbourne her first year, and in her new book she tells stories about how Sharon bullied and cursed her out regularly, which is not surprising given all the other people Sharon has been in feuds with, many of whom have not personally provoked her at all. News of The World has excerpts from Kylie’s book and I’ll just include a segment here where Minogue explains how Sharon laid into her just 20 minutes before she was due to go on for the first time. You can read more at the source.

It was Dannii’s 36th birthday and she was running late for her first live X Factor show due to an impromptu celebration thrown by her friends and crew.

Rumours had been rife in the press that the two women on the judging panel didn’t get on, and Sharon sent an assistant to Dannii’s room saying she wanted to see her. But the Aussie singer didn’t have time before the show.

Then, just as Dannii was having her make-up finished, Sharon burst in, wearing just a dressing gown. Dannii recalls: “Sharon snapped, ‘All this b****cks in the press is ruining my life. You could be telling them I’m a nice person but instead you’re adding fuel to the fire by saying nothing.’

“I told her: ‘Sharon, I’ve never said anything bad about you, and I wouldn’t say anything bad about you.’

“But she didn’t seem interested. ‘I don’t need this!’ she squeaked. ‘I’m a mother, for f***’s sake, do you think I need all this s*** in my life?’

“I tried reasoning with her. ‘Sharon, they are just stupid press stories about a non-existent feud. All I’ve ever done is tell people how much I admire you but they don’t want to print it.’

“‘Oh, don’t play the innocent,’ Sharon spat. ‘Cos if you wanna play games, Missy, I’ll play… don’t you worry, I’ll play!’

I froze in my chair as furious Sharon came towards me

“I turned to look at my friends Terry and Mark, whose mouths had fallen open in horror. Then I caught a glimpse of my make-up girl Karen, who was frozen, holding a mascara wand in mid-air.

“By now Sharon – the 2006 Celebrity Mother of the Year – was screaming at me, furiously.

“My palms were clammy and my chest was tight. I noticed Terry had disappeared, then seconds later he reappeared with two producers, Claire Horton and Mark Sidaway. ‘This is not the time or place for this – 20 minutes before we go on air, Sharon,’ Claire said firmly. ‘Let’s talk about this later, shall we?’ But Sharon wouldn’t leave, and finally, with about 10 minutes to go before the broadcast, the producers had to remove her from my dressing room, ranting as she went.

“The minute she left, I burst into tears. Someone I admired greatly had relentlessly bawled in my face for 20 minutes and ruined not only what should have been one of the best nights of my life but my birthday as well.

“It was now five minutes before I was due to go on live television in front of 12 million people, and I had make-up streaming down my face.

“‘What the f*** am I supposed to have done?’ I said. ‘It’s not you, Babe,’ Terry said. ‘I think she knew exactly what she wanted to do, which was screw with your head five minutes before your first show.’

“My fabulous make-up girl Karen took charge and cleared the room. Then she sat me back in the chair and turned me around to face her. ‘Right, Dannii,’ she said. ‘You’ve got to go on in five minutes. Whatever happened just then was bulls***, so you’re not going to let someone who isn’t making any sense ruin your big night, right?’

“She literally threw some more make-up on my face, fixed my hair and ushered me to the door.

“When we reached the backstage area, I joined Simon Cowell, Louis and Sharon, ready for our first grand entrance.

“The sliding screen opened and I put my hand out to Sharon, and she took it. I wanted to show her we could be friends.

“As we moved down towards the front of the stage, Sharon lifted up our joined hands in front of the cheering crowd, and I felt relieved. Maybe that’s the end of it, I thought.”

But later that night, when two of Sharon’s acts got the least votes, she stormed off the show, swearing.

Dannii said: “I had a feeling then that it was just the beginning.”

That series proved to be a “rollercoaster of great highs and rotten lows” for Dannii.

[From News of The World]

Sharon is a nasty piece of work and she’ll pick fights with people and bully them. We don’t need Dannii Minogue to tell us that. Apparently her daughter Kelly blames Dannii for lying or somehow setting her mom off, though. She fired off a bunch of tweets personally attacking Dannii, which is typical of the Osbournes. Here’s what she wrote [via Radar]

Kelly is no stranger to feuds herself and once slapped a reporter for writing negative stories about her then-boyfriend. I guess we know where she learned her conflict resolution skills.

Dannii is shown on 2/22/10. Sharon is shown on 9/11/10. Kelly is shown on 9/14/10. Credit: WENN.com

Was everyone else startled when they first saw Kelly Osbourne at the Emmys on Sunday? She has lost quite a lot of weight. So much weight she pretty much looks like a different person. Not all of it is the weight though – she did away with the lavender hair, and now she’s doing some strange ashy blonde that ages her terribly. Anyway, Kelly took her new body to the Pussycat Dolls show last night, after tweeting the above photo. Kelly performed with Carmen Electra and Mya, and Kelly’s mom showed up with her new face to watch the performance.

Can I just say something? I’m a little disappointed in Kelly. I want her to be happy and healthy, but I think she’s just spinning to a bad place, honestly. Her weight loss is drastic, and she just recently broke it off with her fiancé, who broke her heart after probably-definitely cheating on her. This whole thing strikes me as “I’m doing fine on my own” move, and it’s not really coming across as “over it.”

Plus, she just looks extremely trashy in these getups. And not in a “trashy in a sexy way.” Poor Kelly.

What does Sharon think of all of this?

Kelly on Sept. 1, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Comments against Elisabeth Hasselbeck start at 2:20

Sharon Osbourne never fails to give obnoxious quotes and start feuds with just about anyone who’ll take her bait. In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel last week, Sharon and her filled frozen face made some comments against the token conservative on The View. Sharon is about to star in an all-female panel-based talk show on CBS, which is how the topic came up. She also spoke out against the reality shows her show The Osbournes helped spawn.

On Reality Shows
They are so crap these reality shows now. They just get worse and worse and worse… there’s a bunch of kids that love to party – let’s watch ‘em… Why would anybody watch that? Why would an adult watch Jersey Shore?

On if her new talkshow will be like The View
F-ck no. We’re very different women, we’ve got different opinions and we’re not miserable and dry… it’s totally different… I think ours will be edgier and more real, and not so trying to be politically correct and like you’ve got a stick up your ass and you’re all dry.

On her least favorite member of The View
Oh that little blonde idiot. [faux retches]
You know what she needs? She needs a good shtupping by a football team. She needs to get some humor there, you know it’s like ‘lighten up, bitch.’

Once Sharon gets on a roll there’s no stopping her. I find her kind of tedious, and I won’t watch this new show. The show is a decent idea on paper – in terms of marketshare and potential ratings, etc. It will probably suck in it’s own way, but I doubt that it can be worse than the original. She also has a point with the “stick up their arse” comments, especially when Babs and her disapproving stare are on. Plus Hasselbeck is really humorless and she always tries to drive every point she has into the ground. Leave it to Sharon to tell it like it is. Her schtick will get old fast though once she’s on television for an hour every day. I wonder if she’ll get into any hair-pulling fights with the guests.

Look at that face – isn’t she lovely?

Sharon Osbourne has penned a self-righteous article about the downfall of society with the rise of people who are famous for nothing. She has a point in that there are many young people who strive to just be famous without having the talent or work ethic necessary to contribute something. At the same time her long essay is peppered with boastful stories about how she and Ozzy met President Bush and Andy Warhol and how well known and famous they were. Sharon and her family also starred in a reality show and she’s hosted countless reality shows, including Rock Of Love: Charm School, in which Sharon’s responded to a contestant’s criticism of her husband by jumping up out of her seat and trying to rip out the bikini-clad girl’s cheap weave. If Sharon is so opposed to being famous for nothing, why is she lending what she no-doubt considers her good name to shows like Celebrity X Factor, Celebrity Apprentice and America’s Got Talent? She’s as full of sh*t as the Tiffany boxes she sends to her detractors. Here are some quotes from the article, published in The Daily Mail. This is to promote a work of fiction she just wrote, Revenge, which is out in March. The best part is when she writes that “young people regard fame as a birthright. They have a sense of entitlement the size of one of my houses.” That pretty much sums up Sharon’s point: I’m rich and famous and you’re not. If you are, you don’t deserve it:

On kids wanting to be famous
Of course, Andy Warhol is most famous for saying: ‘In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.’ These days I’d put that figure closer to five minutes.

I thought of Warhol’s prediction when I was watching a morning chat show on TV recently.
It featured a girl aged about 14. Her one aim in life was to have surgery so that she would look like Katie Price. Her reasoning seemed to be that if she looked like the glamour model, she would become as famous as her idol.

How depressing that the loftiest ambition a child of 14 can summon up is to have breasts the size of barrage balloons. It was bad enough that she regarded ‘being famous’ as a worthy goal – not ‘being talented’, you note.

When Ozzy was starting out as a musician in Black Sabbath, for him and his contemporaries fame was simply a by-product of doing something they loved, not an end in itself. Of course, they wanted to be successful and to make money, but they certainly didn’t expect it and that wasn’t the reason they were in a band.

Today, though, young people regard fame as a birthright. They have a sense of entitlement the size of one of my houses.

On “lesser” celebrities
A lot of people confuse fame and infamy – two very different things. There is now a whole army of ‘celebrities’ who are notorious rather than famous.

Take Kerry Katona, for example. I mean, what is she? Whatever modicum of talent she originally had, she is now best known for behaving badly in public. How does she add to the sum of human happiness? What does she contribute to the arts?

In 2006, I was a judge on a celebrity version of X Factor. James Hewitt and Rebecca Loos were two of the contestants, both famous, or infamous rather, for having had affairs with married people – relationships that they had milked for all they were worth.

After their execrable assault on the Robert Palmer song Addicted To Love, I suggested to Loos that for the next performance she should wear some knickers. ‘It will help warm up your voice,’ I said.

I heard my fellow judge Louis Walsh groan, and Simon Cowell wasn’t very happy but I didn’t care.

Loos and others like her are not contributors. They are on the outside scratching to get in.

Then there is the small matter of talent, something many of those who want to be famous seem to overlook. To succeed in life it helps a lot if you are actually good at something – music, writing, acting, business. It’s not enough – or shouldn’t be – just to be willing to take your clothes off in public or to get drunk in a nightclub in front of the Press.

On whether she’s being a hypocrite
Some might argue that I have contributed to the fame epidemic myself, with The Osbournes show, and by appearing on X Factor and America’s Got Talent.

The Osbournes opened so many doors for us and both Jack and Kelly loved doing it. But although we pioneered the reality show I didn’t expect the wave of copycat programmes that followed.

My eldest daughter, Aimee, is very private and doesn’t want anything to do with the world of celebrity – who can blame her? She elected not to appear in The Osbournes and my only regret about doing the show is that it meant I spent less time with her while we were filming it.

As for the talent shows, I don’t think I’ve ever given false hope to anyone who has appeared on those programmes that I have helped judge. Also, I think that now people know what they are getting themselves into when they decide to audition.

If you are prepared for it, and it makes you happy, do it. It’s a great opportunity for a very rich life experience, a chance to meet interesting people, and travel. Why not take a roll of the dice? If you win, fantastic. You’ll have one hit record – maybe more if you’re very lucky.

But don’t expect a career with the longevity of, say, Ozzy’s. He has had 40 years in the business and it’s still a struggle. (Of course, it helps if you marry your manager.)

Look at what history has taught us. Think of the people who have won these shows and where they are now. The odds aren’t great. I know the music industry inside out and it is brutal, unforgiving and treacherous.
Just as power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, so fame corrupts and megastardom can destroy.

[From The Daily Mail]

For all you can say about Sharon, her kids turned out pretty well after they battled drug addiction and came out on the other side. We can only keep tabs on Jack and Kelly, and there’s also their older sister, Aimee, who decided not to appear on The Osbournes and has stayed out of the spotlight.

Reading this long, obnoxious treatise I’m struck by how much Sharon is highlighting her husband’s talent and longevity as opposed to the struggling young people she passed judgment on for X Factor and America’s Got Talent. It’s as if no one is entitled to the trappings of wealth and fame except Sharon and her family. We shouldn’t even criticize them for doing the reality show that she blames for this new fame phenomenon because of course Ozzy was already famous. Sharon sounds so incredibly threatened by the fact that she and her family are no longer the center of attention. Why doesn’t she use her “talent” to get ahead again? I guess she is, considering the only thing she’s known for is talking smack.

Question: does anyone even watch Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice” anymore? I haven’t watched it since the original Omarosa season. It just seemed so staged and fake to me. But I guess someone, somewhere is watching the “Celebrity” version of the reality show, because it’s back for another season. This year’s lineup of stars who compete on teams doing various “business” related challenges for charity includes that douchebag former governor, Rod Blagojevich. As if that’s not nauseating enough, the roster includes “Rock of Love” star Bret “This is my real hair, honest!” Michaels and former NY Met Darryl “Nose candy” Strawberry.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich wasn’t allowed to participate on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! because he couldn’t leave the country, but he will be among 14 contestants on the new season of Donald Trump’s NBC show The Celebrity Apprentice, which kicks off March 14.

And no reality show would be complete these days without an Osbourne. Others competing for charity on the show include mama Sharon Osbourne, along with female competitors Cyndi Lauper, Holly Robinson Peete, Selita Ebanks, Maria Kanellis, Carol Leifer and Summer Sanders. The men include: Darryl Strawberry, Bret Michaels, Goldberg, Michael Johnson, Rod Blagojevich, Sinbad and Curtis Stone.

[From USA Today]

What the heck is Cyndi Lauper doing on this show? Girlfriend, you are so much better than this. I’m going to give Cyndi a little slack since I know she has some charities that are very important to her, including her own True Colors Fund, which supports gay/lesbian equality. As for the other “celebs,” I actually had to Google some of these people. Selita Ebanks is a Victoria’s Secret model. Maria Kanellis is a professional wrestler, and Curtis Stone is is an Australian chef. I wonder if Blagojevich, Michaels and Trump will have some kind of bad hairpiece challenge? I might tune in for that.

Last week, Sharon Osbourne appeared on The Opie & Anthony Show, and she ended up bashing Susan Boyle. Sharon said Boyle was “hit with the f-cking ugly stick… I like everybody to do well. Even somebody that looks like a slapped arse. God bless her. It’s like, ‘You go girl’. She does look like a hairy arsehole. She is a lovely lady. You just want to say ‘god bless’ and here’s a Gillette razor.” Harsh, yes? Mean? Obnoxious? Of course. It’s made worse, I think, by the assumption/fact that Boyle isn’t totally… with it. Is that the nice way of saying it? I don’t think Susan Boyle is handicapped, she just seems to be a bit eccentric, and maybe not too bright. It felt like Sharon Osbourne was picking on the slow kid. In any case, Sharon has now apologized for her comments:

Sharon Osbourne has apologized for saying that Britain’s Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle was hit by “the ugly stick.”

Last month, Osbourne, 57, appeared on Sirius XM Radio’s The Opie & Anthony Show and was asked about Boyle. She cracked, “You just want to say God bless and here’s a Gillette razor.”

But on her Twitter page this week, Osbourne changed her tune.

“Susan Boyle is a lovely gracious woman and I took advantage of that by poking fun at her,” she wrote. “I would never want to be responsible for hurting Susan and I must apologize for getting a cheap laugh at her expense.”

Boyle, 47, is set to release her first album, I Dreamed A Dream, Nov. 24

[From Us Weekly]

Yeah, if you’re going to apologize for something like that, it’s best to just fall on your sword completely. I hope Sharon sent Boyle a little gift or something, because Sharon’s original comments crossed the line into cruelty. Plus, it’s not like Sharon is God’s beautiful gift, either.

Here’s Sharon Osbourne at the Billboard Legend of Live Award on November 5, 2009. Credit: Patricia Schlein/ WENN.com. Susan Boyle is photographed in a fabulous pink coat, signing autographs outside the London Studios on November 3, 2009. Credit: Fame.