Possibly the most shocking thing Sharon Osbourne could ever say (this is, after all, the woman married to the guy who was once best known for biting heads off bats) was revealed this week, as she sheepishly admitted doing it with none other than Jay Leno. Jay Leno!
Sharon Osbourne and Jay Leno are certainly low on our list of potential celeb secret shags, but it happened. Osbourne herself says so.
Way before Sharon and Ozzy made two foul-mouthed babies and went on to charm America in an MTV reality romp, the then-twentysomething had just arrived in Los Angeles. Bored, British, and freshly single, Sharon says the conditions led to a tryst with then-comic Leno.
Dishing it up on TV’s The Talk , the now Mrs. Osbourne recalls:
“Remember, at 25, I had met my husband but we weren’t together. We were just friends. So, I’m here, I didn’t have a boyfriend. I never did date a lot at that time anyway because I was not very dateable.”
Recalling a Leno she remembers as “very nice, very funny,” Osbourne says a prank call turned into a booty call. She adds:
“He liked my voice and I kept calling. I said I had the wrong number but I kept talking with my English accent… he actually came to my house and met me and we had a little fling.”
But Sharon Osbourne and Jay Leno were just ships passing in the night, and a few months later, he introduced the future Mrs. Ozzy to the “real love of his life.” And, as fate would have it, Sharon went on to meet her own Prince Charming.
She adds:
“The fling was more of a fling for me and not fling enough for him because a couple of months later he brought around the real love of his life for me to meet, and she was lovely and they took me to Fatburger and showed me around town.”
On the dirty deets, Osbourne admitted :
“It was so long ago I can’t remember! One cannot remember that long ago.”
Is the Sharon Osbourne Jay Leno fling story the weirdest celebrity pairing you’ve heard all year?