CBS talk show “The Talk” is going on a break while the network probes a heated conversation that occurred when co-host Sharon Osbourne defended her friend, Piers Morgan, last week.
Morgan slammed Meghan Markle for her tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, then he quit his coveted job at ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
Osbourne rushed to his defense, which upset her American co-hosts including Sheryl Underwood, who said, “While you are standing by your friend, it appears that you are giving validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that is racist.”
Osbourne then asked: “So if I like Piers and he’s seen as racist, I’m racist? Is that what you’re saying?”
After the episode aired, Osbourne apologized on Twitter for her comments and to “anyone of color that I offended and/or to anyone that feels confused, or let down by what I said.”
She said she was “panicked, felt blindsided [and] got defensive.”
Then actress Holly Robinson-Peete (left) chimed in, saying Osbourne, 68, played a role in getting her fired from The Talk after Osbourne (right) said Peete was “too ghetto” for the show.
“I’m old enough to remember when Sharon complained that I was too ‘ghetto’ for #theTalk… then I was gone,” Peete, 56, tweeted last week.
“I bring this up now bc I was mortified watching the disrespectful condescending tone she took w/her co host who remained calm & respectful because…she HAD to…”
Osbourne denies calling Peele “Ghetto.”
