Resurrected clip shows Sharon Osbourne saying Meghan Markle ‘Ain’t Black’

A reappeared clip showing Sharon Osbourne commenting offensively about Meghan Markle’s Blackness appeared online this week while the co-host of “The Talk” faces accusations of making racist and homophobic comments directed at his former colleagues.

Journalist Yashar Ali, who published a report on the allegations surrounding Osbourne’s conduct towards his previous co-hosts on Tuesday, also posted a Twitter topic on Saturday, which included an old clip of Osbourne talking about the Duchess of Sussex in “The Talk”.

In the clip, which would have been filmed in 2018, co-host Sheryl Underwood can be heard saying that Meghan brought “Blackness to the royal family”, to which Osbourne replies: “She is not black”.

After Underwood and Eve responded quickly to Osbourne, correcting her that the Duchess is a black biracial woman whose mother is black (Meghan’s father is white), Osbourne doubled down on his comment and fired on his co-hosts Black.

“Yes, no, I know, but she doesn’t look black,” she said.

“For whom?” Eve and Underwood questioned in unison.

“For anyone,” Osbourne can be heard responding in the middle of conversations.

Eve then pointed out that “Black people come in all shades” before ending the discussion. The former co-host said that such a complex conversation around skin and blackness deserved to be treated differently.

“This is a whole argument that we don’t need to have,” Eve said.

A CBS representative did not immediately return a request for comment on the reappeared clip.

Osbourne was widely criticized last week after fiercely defending his longtime friend Piers Morgan, who cast doubt and rejected the revelations in Meghan’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey on March 7. During that interview, the Duchess shared her experience of dealing with racism, and revealed that she had thought of suicide during her time as a job of royalty.

During a tense conversation on “The Talk”, when Underwood asked Osbourne about his defense of Morgan, a visibly agitated Osbourne placed the responsibility on his co-host to “educate” her on how Morgan’s relentless attacks on Meghan could be considered racist.

Osbourne then issued an apology on social media addressed to “anyone of color” the next day, writing that she “panicked, felt surprised” and “became defensive” due to fear of “being accused of being racist”.

After Osbourne’s conversation with Underwood aired last week, she was publicly accused of making racist comments about her former presenter Holly Robinson Peete and of using racial slurs and homophobic comments to refer to her former presenters Sara Gilbert and Julie Chen. Ali’s report detailing these allegations cited several unidentified sources, along with former “The Talk” host Leah Remini, who officially spoke in the article.

Osbourne’s press officer, Howard Bragman, issued a statement denying Ali the accusations, calling the charges “lies” and a “reformulation of history”.

During an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” on Tuesday, Osbourne said she was taken by surprise by Underwood’s questions about Morgan last week, saying she was “armed” and not properly prepared for the question – which she said was usual practice.

She called herself “sacrificial lamb”.

CBS announced on Tuesday that “The Talk” will remain on a hiatus for another week, after the network initially said the program would end on Monday and Tuesday, while examining the exchange for Underwood and Osbourne.

The network released the following statement on the program’s continuing hiatus on Tuesday until the deadline:

CBS is committed to a diverse, inclusive and respectful work environment in all of our productions. We are also very attentive to the important concerns expressed and the discussions that take place in relation to the events in progress. The conversation. This includes a process in which all voices are heard, claims are investigated and appropriate actions are taken when necessary. The program will extend its production hiatus until next Tuesday, while we continue to review these issues.