Sharon Osbourne

Sharon Osbourne is an English television host, media personality, music manager, businesswoman, and author born in London, England on October 9, 1952. She is the wife of the heavy metal artist Ozzy Osbourne and became well known after appearing on the reality television show The Osbournes. In 1996 she created the Ozzfest summer touring festival. The festival became a regular event and is still held every year. After managing her husband for so many years she started the management company Sharon Osbourne Management. She has managed the artists and bands Motorhead, Coal Chamber, Gary Moore, Lita Ford, and the Smashing Pumpkins. In 2002 the show The Osbournes made its premier and ran until 2005. From 2004 to 2007 and 2016 to 2017 she was a talent show judge on the talent competition show The X Factor. In 2010 she became a co-host on the daytime show The Talk and in 2014 became panelist on the show Loose Women. Osbourne published her first autobiography in 2005 titled Extreme. The book was number 1 on the Sunday Times Bestseller list and sold over 600,000 copies. In 2007 she released her second autobiography titled Survivor and in 2013 published her third autobiography titled Unbreakable.