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Why The “Sharon Osbourne Effect” Needs To Be Checked

Ezinne Ukoha
4 min readApr 14, 2021

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Long-running daytime offering, The Talk has resumed operations, after being on hiatus for about a month, following the controversial episode involving former cohost Sharon Osbourne’s explosive tantrum, while confronting fellow talker Sheryl Underwood, during a tension-filled segment.

Osbourne defensively lashed out when the conversation forced her to speak up for her embattled friend Piers Morgan, who abruptly left his job at Good Morning Britain over accusations of racist attacks against Meghan Markle.

The viral clip of a privileged white woman’s desperate attempt at centering her victimhood above the Black woman she claimed as a friend wasn’t received well, particularly when Osbourne had the audacity to berate Underwood for daring to showcase her sensitivity about the triggering subject of racism.

“Don’t try and cry because if anyone should be crying, it should be me.”

That wasn’t the first time Osbourne used the CBS sound stage as a vessel for abhorrent behavior towards targeted colleagues in her midst. Back when actresses Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini were invited to the table, Osbourne was outrightly disrespectful to both women. She infamously referred to Remini as “ghetto” as the cameras rolled, and also secretly made…

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