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Sharon Rachel Osbourne (born 9 October 1952 ) is an English music promoter and TV personality. She is the daughter of the infamous rock and roll entrepreneur Don Arden (born Harry Levy) and his late wife Hope; the sister of David Levy; the wife and manager of Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne , and the mother of Aimee , Kelly and Jack SHARON AND OZZY She was born Sharon Rachel Levy in London to an Ashkenazi Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother. She met Ozzy Osbourne at age 17 while working as a receptionist for her father, who had been looking to manage Ozzy's band Black Sabbath . When Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 , Sharon took over his management from the Arden organization. Proving to be as hardworking and ruthless as her father, Sharon coordinated the recruitment of both a technically gifted backing band The Blizzard Of Ozz and by utilising proven songwriters helped Ozzy kick off what became a highly successful solo career. A series of high selling albums and world tours followed through the 1980s , eventually making Ozzy one of the most popular metal acts in the world. In 1996 she created the Ozzfest summer touring festival. Sharon and Ozzy were married in Maui, Hawaii on July 4 , 1982 . They bought out Ozzy's contract from her father in that year for GBP 1,500,000, a move that destroyed her relationship with her father for nearly 20 years. Sharon was so estranged from her parents that when her mother, Hope, died in 1998 , she had not met her grandchildren, and Sharon did not attend the funeral. However, Sharon and her father were reconciled in 2001 , after Sharon glimpsed him on a Los Angeles street. OTHER MANAGEMENT ROLES Sharon has also managed was making me sick!" TV CAREER Sharon gained celebrity as one of the stars of MTV 's Reality Show , '' The Osbournes '', about her family's daily life. As the person who negotiated with MTV to tape the show, she is often credited with her husband's emergence from heavy metal icon to mainstream celebrity. The show began airing in early 2002 , and when, in July 2002 , Osbourne was diagnosed with cancer, she insisted filming continue. The final episode of the show aired in the US on March 21 , 2005 . MTV's British Affiliate , has been airing the show since 2003 . In 2003 Sharon became the host of her own television Talk Show , '' The Sharon Osbourne Show ''. The show was meant to be a reflection of her personality and her home life – similar to her reality show but with the inclusion of guest interviews and performances. However, it was never very successful in the ratings and critics panned her inability to perform the basic tasks required of a talk show host such as reading Cue Card s and conducting interviews. Eventually the show's format became extremely standardised – not at all what Osbourne had wanted. A sequence on her reality show found her struggling to book any noteworthy celebrity guests because their agents did not feel an appearance would be beneficial. The show was cancelled in early 2004 . At a charity Auction , Sharon bid for and won the opportunity to guest star in an episode of the NBC Comedy '' Will & Grace ''. She played a Bartender in a spring 2004 episode. In October 2004, Sharon announced that she and husband Ozzy would be teaming up for yet another MTV show entitled "Battle for Ozzfest", in which a group of unsigned bands battle it out for a spot on the 2005 Ozzfest tour. In January 2005 she was selected to feature in advertising for the United Kingdom supermarket chain ASDA . She is also one of the judges on the award-winning British TV talent show '' The X Factor '' in both 2004 and 2005. HEALTH In 1999 Sharon lost 100 pounds (45 kg) thanks to a weight loss surgery with a Gastric Bypass Surgery . In July 2002 Osbourne was diagnosed with colon Cancer . Later, she announced her cancer had spread to her Lymph Node s and was more serious than originally thought. With characteristic determination she overcame her battle with the disease against a 33% survival prognosis, and in August 2004 founded the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars Sinai Hospital . In addition, she was the honored guest at the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation 's 2003 Fall Gala, where she spoke of her stuggle against cancer. In December 2004, Osbourne made the public announcement that she is still battling Bulimia . EXTREME: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sharon Osbourne's autobiography, Extreme, (co-authored by Penelope Dening) was published in October 2005 and tells of her difficult childhood growing up with her father, Don Arden , and also documents the highs and lows of her marriage to husband Ozzy Osbourne , shedding light on areas of her life previously not commented on. Published by Time WarnerBooks, it went straight to No. 1 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List (UK) where it remained for 15 weeks, selling over 600,000 copies in hardback, becoming the biggest selling autobiography since records began. "Both the heroic vulgarity and the love are vividly captured in this pungent and distinctive autobiography," said Sunday Times; "Truly unputdownable" said Irish Times. SHARON OSBOURNE AND THE INSANE CLOWN POSSE In 1999 the band had planned to donate to charity. THE CONFLICT WITH IRON MAIDEN AT OZZFEST 2005 On August 20 2005 , the band Iron Maiden played their last Ozzfest show of 2005 in San Bernardino, California . A series of premeditated negative events occurred during that performance, beginning with attendees in the V.I.P. area being handed eggs by festival security, in which they then pelted the band with eggs, garbage, and other debris. Festival Crew and people who attended the event also described that someone sabotaged the sound system and played a tape of somebody chanting 'Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy!' as people at the event chanted 'Maiden! Maiden! Maiden!' to counter the attack. It was also reported that the sound system was intentionally turned off about 5 times in the middle of the band's performance. Sharon Osbourne admits to planning these attacks on Iron Maiden in retaliation against Bruce Dickinson 's statements about the Osbourne family's reality show on MTV . As Iron Maiden began to play the song "The Trooper" a man believed to be Big Dave, a famous and claimed that he ruined the entire Ozzfest tour. EXTERNAL LINKS
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