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(Bleep) Oprah--Here Comes Sharon!
It seems Sharon Osbourne isn't quite as tired of this whole spotlight thing after all.
Just days after telling Barbara Walters she was sick of the media glare intensified by the smash MTV reality hit The Osbournes, the heavy-metal mama has confirmed she's ready for a new gig as an afternoon talk-show host.
The matriarch of TV's foulest-mouthed family has signed a deal with Telepictures Productions to host a daily syndicated chatfest that is scheduled to bow sometime in the fall of 2003, a rep for Osbourne confirmed to E! on Friday.
Although no details of the deal were announced, the Los Angeles Times says Osbourne, who masterminds the family's business transactions (including the $20 million deal with MTV), will likely receive between $3 million and $5 million for the talker.
Specifics are still being hammered out, but the show will likely be an hour-long single-issue format in front of a studio audience, similar to The Oprah Winfrey Show or Dr. Phil. Telepictures, a division of AOL Time Warner, has been looking for star-driven yakkers to help buttress its daytime presence and replace the studio's Rosie O'Donnell Show, which ended earlier this year. In addition to the Osbourne affair, Warners has also been pushing an Ellen DeGeneres-helmed talk show.
Although Sharon's ongoing battle with colon cancer might affect her long-term commitment to such a project--especially one as a grueling as a daily show--producers say it was actually a positive factor in the deal.
A source close to the project tells the Hollywood Reporter that Telepictures honchos think Osbourne's status as a cancer patient, as well has her much-publicized roles as a supermom of three and former overweight woman, would up her appeal to the primarily female daytime-talk audience.
Still, news of the talk show is a bit surprising considering Sharon's rants to Babs on Wednesday's 20/20. Mrs. Ozzy said the MTV show has become intrusive and upsetting and that she and her heavy-metal brood won't do a third season of their popular MTV show.
"You know when you're sick, you want to be on your own? I can't throw up on my own, and Ozzy can't get drunk on his own," she complained.
She later backpedaled, promising 10 new episodes beginning this month and 10 more next year, adding "I love my MTV."
There is one huge difference between a reality show and a talk show--the latter would not require 24-7 cameras.
Talk-show plans aside, the Osbourne brood has a busy schedule for the next few months.
The show's fall season premieres November 26, at 10:30 p.m., on MTV. ABC also recently announced that Ozzy and company have signed up to host the network's live January 13 telecast of the American Music Awards. Kelly Osbourne's solo CD, Shut Up!, drops on November 26, and the DVD box set of The Osbournes season one, expletives and all, has been slated for a March 4 release. If that wasn't enough, Sharon has also recently announced she's working on a screenplay for a film about Ozzy's early wild days.
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