Sharon Osbourne Calls 'That '70s Show' Star Rudest Celebrity She's Ever Met
Sharon Osbourne did not hold back when asked about the rudest celebrity she’s ever met.
She and daughter Kelly Osbourne, 40, were playing a game of “Stir the Pot” in an interview with E! News released on Thursday, December 5. After Sharon picked the controversial question out of the pot, she clearly knew the culprit, but had to turn to daughter Kelly for a bit of help with his name.
“The guy that’s married to an actress, and he used to do That '70s Show,” The Talk alum, 72, explained, to which Kelly responded, “Oh, Ashton Kutcher, really?” She seemed surprised, but Sharon emphatically responded, “Oh rude, rude, rude, rude little boy!”
The interviewers admitted they were taken aback by her answer, and Kelly quipped, “I was not prepared for that either!” However, Sharon held her ground, adding another, “Rude, rude!” When the Fashion Police alum questioned her mother again, Sharon only tripled down, quipping, “Yes! Dastardly little thing.”
Kelly perhaps shouldn’t have been surprised as this isn't the first time Sharon has been public about her dislike of the former Punk'd host. Back in 2018, the wife of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne revealed to Larry King that she butted heads with Kutcher when he appeared on her show, The Talk.
King had asked if any interviews on the show didn’t go the way she expected, and Sharon first prefaced it by saying they’d had a “couple of meanies, for me” noting that the different hosts would often have different experiences with guests.
As she called out the Two and a Half Men actor, she mispronounced his name, calling him Ashton Kushner, rather than Kutcher. It seemed her issue with him on The Talk also stemmed from mispronouncing his name. She said when he arrived he gave her a “bad attitude,” because she “got his name wrong, so he was pissed.”
“He comes on with an attitude, and he goes, 'And what have you done in this industry?'" she explained. "And I was like, 'Kid, don't start with me, because I'm going to eat you up and s**t you out.' And so, I was just like, 'You don't know what you're dealing with, kid.'”
She told the story again when appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored in 2023. This time she noted that she had been surprised by Kutcher's hostility towards her, since they had known each other for years, due to being on MTV shows at the same time. Sharon said she apologized for flubbing his name, and called him a "dastardly little man," noting that the experience "just stayed with me."
Kutcher, for his part, seemingly has not responded to any of Sharon's complaints.
[EDITOR'S NOTE:] Something weird happened when I was covering the news for another publication today. This video from E! News of an interview featuring Sharon Osbourne and her daughter, Kelly Osbourne, came up on news aggregate Feedly. The video was posted on YouTube today, and if you read the description it clearly said the "Stir the Pot" segment was posted and dated as December 5, 2024.
So I moved forward with the story, wrote it all up, got the edits, formatted it for the site, etc. Then when I went to embed the video just before posting, all of a sudden it wasn't available. The clip had been made private, so you could no longer see it. When I tried to search if E! had done a write-up of the interview as well, this post from 2023 came up.
So basically, this story was old, someone at E! made a mistake, reposting an old clip but dating it as a new interview, and then after realizing the mistake, they pulled the video. Unfortunately for me, it doesn't matter that they made a mistake, because I still can't publish old news, so all of my time and work had been wasted — hence me posting it here to my own site.
In addition to being bummed about wasting my time, this incident also kind of freaked me out, because we typically just believe the information that an outlet posts about their own interviews, because if you were not there to see it IRL, and if you don't know the detailed schedule of celebrities' daily lives, then how would you know whether a clip was from this morning, six months ago, or last year?
I don't necessarily have a big statement to make about this, aside from the fact that I found it quite jarring. It makes me feel like I have to be even more vigilant when it comes to research, and scares me pondering how often this happens elsewhere, and with more important subject matter.
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