WHY'D SHE DO THAT?

Sharon Osbourne met the press Sunday at the Television Critics Assoc. press tour in Hollywood to tout her upcoming syndicated talk show, but reporters were more interested in asking why the heck she agreed to do another season of MTV's The Osbournes. "It's about squeezing out every moment that I possibly can in my life," said Ozzy's better half, who confirmed that she is currently cancer-free. "When somebody says to you, 'You've got a 33 percent [chance] of survival,' you rethink your life." Sharon also conceded that The Osbournes was partially to blame for son Jack's drug problems, because he "had money... and he had people around him that wanted to be near him because he was on a TV show." For my minute-by-minute account of press tour, click here.

TV GuideNews July 14, 2003 at 1:00 a.m. PT