Sharon Osbourne sued for battery
Reality TV “stars” never cease to amaze me. Megan Hauserman, a contestant on “Rock of Love: Charm School,” is suing Sharon Osbourne, the show’s host, for physically attacking her in a reunion segment that aired on January 5th. The fight started when Megan, wearing a skimpy yellow bikini, told Sharon that she was a celebrity only because of her “brain dead” rocker husband, Ozzy Osbourne. (In Megan’s defense, Sharon had just told her that she shouldn’t be allowed to breed.) After the insult about her husband, Sharon splashed a cupful of red wine all over Megan. The camera cut away just at the place where Megan is now claiming Sharon physically assaulted her.
Megan Hauserman claims Sharon went ballistic during a taping, punching and grabbing her by the hair and refusing to let go, and scratching her to boot. Osbourne opened the can of whoop ass after Megan told Sharon she was famous only because she managed a brain dead rock star.
In a lawsuit filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, Hauserman is suing Osbourne for battery, negligence and infliction of emotional distress.
[from TMZ]
Sharon has always been vocal about protecting her family, and she will go to great lengths to defend them. But how can she host a show in which she is trying to teach trashy girls how to respect themselves, and then stoop down to their level when one of them throws out a drunken insult? This, along with the interchange on the clip, makes me think that the scenario was scripted. I didn’t think for a second that it was real. But maybe it is – or maybe Megan is just looking for another 15 minutes of court room fame.
Equally confusing is Megan’s claim that the incident caused her “emotional distress.” Wouldn’t being a contestant on “Rock of Love” and “Charm School” be more emotionally scarring than having a glass of red wine thrown on you and your hair pulled? She was competing to be the true love of Bret Michaels, for goodness sake. The cat fights and screaming matches that occurred in the house during filming were surely more embarrassing. And what about showing up for the reunion drunk and wearing nothing but a bikini? A running theme in reality TV starring trashy girls always seems to be that the girls never blame themselves for anything, and this lawsuit is probably just a real-life expansion of that.
The Osbourne Family is shown on 1/13/09 at a Fox TV Party. Credit: WENN
