Back to the Osbournes, and Sharon has told reporters she reckons her US chat show was axed because the American audience didn’t get her British sense of humour. Despite previously saying she had finished the show to spend more time with her family and a then recuperating Ozzy, she has now given a different reason for the end of the show.
"They said I was a loose cannon. The last straw was when there was this actor from New Zealand coming on the show... New Zealand is a huge, huge country, with about four people that live there and about 10 billion sheep. So there's this thing in England that we say about people from New Zealand are sheep-shaggers.
So (I had to speak to) this young gentleman, who I didn't really know much about and the interview that they gave me was boring...
"So I cut right to the chase and I said, 'Tell me. Are you a sheep-shagger?' And he said, 'Excuse me?' And I said,
'You know, do you have sex with sheep?' "His mouth dropped and he didn't know what to say. After that, they basically told me to pack up and go home."