TMC
03-16-2021, 07:55 PM
she has made a career out of being cruel
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/sharon-osbourne-piers-morgan-dannii-minogue-b1817879.html
"The foundation of Osbourne’s fame has been her perceived truth-telling," says Adam White, pointing out that Osbourne's truth-telling amounts to being mean. He adds: "For a good portion of the Noughties, Osbourne (https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1371895302941069314) was British TV royalty – someone beyond reproach, and whose nastiest moments were deflected with a shrug and a nervous giggle. She was notorious for posting Tiffany boxes full of feces to journalists she didn’t like (https://www.aol.com/news/2015-04-21-sharon-osbourne-used-to-mail-poo-boxes-to-her-critics-21174597.html). She said Susan Boyle looked like 'a hairy a**ehole.' It would be insincere to suggest we didn’t get a perverse thrill from figures like Osbourne back then. Pop culture was mean, reality shows were vindictive, and a generation of children quoted The Weakest Link in the playground. Whether it was because we were indoctrinated by the sheer volume of nasty TV, or because the shows tapped into a primal pack mentality in all of us, we shrieked and gasped at the things she said, then went about our business. But her behavior had real-world consequences. Osbourne popularized an idea that being nice or pleasant meant being fake, and that to be honest meant sacrificing civility."
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/sharon-osbourne-piers-morgan-dannii-minogue-b1817879.html
"The foundation of Osbourne’s fame has been her perceived truth-telling," says Adam White, pointing out that Osbourne's truth-telling amounts to being mean. He adds: "For a good portion of the Noughties, Osbourne (https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1371895302941069314) was British TV royalty – someone beyond reproach, and whose nastiest moments were deflected with a shrug and a nervous giggle. She was notorious for posting Tiffany boxes full of feces to journalists she didn’t like (https://www.aol.com/news/2015-04-21-sharon-osbourne-used-to-mail-poo-boxes-to-her-critics-21174597.html). She said Susan Boyle looked like 'a hairy a**ehole.' It would be insincere to suggest we didn’t get a perverse thrill from figures like Osbourne back then. Pop culture was mean, reality shows were vindictive, and a generation of children quoted The Weakest Link in the playground. Whether it was because we were indoctrinated by the sheer volume of nasty TV, or because the shows tapped into a primal pack mentality in all of us, we shrieked and gasped at the things she said, then went about our business. But her behavior had real-world consequences. Osbourne popularized an idea that being nice or pleasant meant being fake, and that to be honest meant sacrificing civility."