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Police probe Sharon Osbourne over attack
Last updated at 12:36pm on 15.12.08Sharon Osbourne is being investigated for allegedly attacking a contestant on a TV show she hosts.
She is accused of pulling 26-year-old model Megan Hauserman's hair and scratching her until they were separated by security.
Shock: model Megan Hauserman said security guards had to pull Osbourne off her
Osbourne, 56, is reported to have flown into a rage when Ms Hauserman said she was only famous for managing "a brain-dead rock star" - a reference to her husband, Ozzy.
According to reports in the US, the model alleged Osbourne ran across the stage and attacked her during a break in filming of Rock Of Love: Charm School in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
Ms Hauserman went to hospital yesterday and reported it to the police. The pair were appearing on a reunion edition of the show which has contestants competing to learn etiquette in order to win $100,000.
A spokesman for Los Angeles Police Department said Osbourne was a suspect in a case of "minor battery" but no charges had been filed yet.
Ms Hauserman was kicked out of Charm School in an episode broadcast in November in the US.
Speaking about the model after she was evicted, Osbourne said: "She said her ambition was to be a trophy wife. Oh God. Well she has got the f**king brain of a peanut. "She does have a pretty damn good body, but no f**king brain. Her brain is between her legs." Osbourne is well known for falling out with her co-stars.
While a judge on The X-Factor, she threw a glass of water over Louis Walsh after the Irishman made a joke about Ozzy, the former lead singer of heavy metal band Black Sabbath. And she also admitted sending her own excrement in Tiffany boxes on more than one occasion to people she felt had unreasonably criticised her or her family. When a journalist criticised her children Jack and Kelly, when they were in their early teens, Osbourne sent a box of excrement with a note which read: "I heard you've got an eating disorder. Eat this."
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Reader views (8)
I LOVE Sharon but honestly, Sharon, don't "dish"it out if you can't take it!
- Christie, MD USA
Sharon only does what she has to do enable to protect her family.
Megan's just a bitch.
- Bitchfit, Texas
Nice to see Sharon's "natural" face in the photo. On X-Factor and similar TV outings she appears to have a make-up routine which includes firing in a kiln, so china-smooth is her complexion.
- Johnnyfox, London
[Sing-song voice] I-ron-y!!!
['Family Guy' joke]
- John, London
model? for what- Pedigree Chum?
- James Mcardle, London
Drama Queen! Try giving back. Adopt kids or set up an orphanage or do something to take the attention from yourself, because frankly people are gonna get fed up real soon. You cant get away with too many things....The louis Walsh episode was back home, but in the US you get sued for everything. Wake up woman, you are no spring chicken no more!!!
- Macy, Milton Keynes,Beds
The Osbourne Harpie hosting a show about etiquette??! That must be comedy...
- Helen, London, UK
That sounds funny, they should have aired it. Sharon the Chav, fighting a bimbo model.
- John, London
