Louis Theroux exposes Sharon Osbourne for ‘not reading her own books’
Louis Theroux has revealed he caught out Sharon Osbourne for ‘not reading her own book’.
The broadcaster, 54, has interviewed a string of stars throughout his career, however he once accidentally left Sharon, 72, perplexed by his questioning.
During a recent interview where the tables were turned and he was in the hot seat, Louis explained what unfolded.
Although he didn’t go into detail when or what he was interviewing her for, Louis said she was confused when he started speaking to Sharon about details of her life.
Recalling what happened, he explained: ‘I read Sharon Osbourne’s book and then I asked her about it and she’s like, “how do you know all this stuff”. She hadn’t read her own book!’ he said on the Tables Manners podcast with Jessie and Lennie Ware.
‘I often joke that if you want to hide something and if you have something you absolutely don’t want people to know about you, put it in a book, no one will read it,’ he added.
She was left confused when he asked questions about her life he’d read about in her book (Picture: Wattie Cheung/ Rex/ Shutterstock for Edinburgh TV Festival)
Sharon released her first autobiography Extreme in 2005. It went to number 1 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List, has sold over 2 million copies is the most successful female autobiography ever.
Her second, Survivor, was released in 2007 while the third autobiography Unbreakable was released in 2013.
In the podcast Louis also spoke about the impact of interviewing Jimmy Savile in 2000 for his series When Louis Met… Jimmy!.
In the aftermath of that show, Louis said many celebrities then felt ‘insulted’ when they were asked to appear too.
‘Back in the day, just to roll back, the first things I did involving celebrities, we would say, we want 10 days. This was the aforementioned Jimmy Savile. Paul Daniels was one, the magician and his wife, Debbie McGee. Neil and Christine Hamilton,’ he explained.
‘It was very, very hard, and quite quickly we ran out of road. And actually, it was never kind of made explicit, but we were largely dealing with people who are on the downside of their careers.’
But after reality shows like Strictly Come Dancing, I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and Big Brother were launched, Louis said celebrities ‘realised they could appear on things and they didn’t have to tolerate a BBC Inquisitor being impertinent then quite clearly, they would choose to do that’.
He added that the agent’s of some celebrities were offended their clients were being asked.
‘It became almost like a brand of being washed up [and I] feel like it was a long road of trying to show people that I wasn’t just out to get them, that I was up for having conversations that felt fair and humane,’ he said.
Louis Theroux exposes Sharon Osbourne for ‘not reading her own books’