By MIA FREEDMAN
So Kelly Osbourne came to Australia to promote her new column in CLEO and immediately became embroiled in a very public fight with a bouncer at the casino where she’s staying.
Two days ago, the former reality show star and current co-host of the Joan River’s show Fashion Police on the E! channel, tweeted this:
And then this:
Yes, this has been a news story – on the actual news. And it’s giving me disturbing flashbacks. More about that in a second. But first (are you still reading? does anyone care?) let’s establish what happened to so displease Osbourne.
According to Fairfax reporter Jo Casamento, the drama went down something like this:
An insider at The Star told Fairfax Media Osbourne, the daughter of Sharon and visiting Black Sabbath legend Ozzy, had tried to gain entry to the gaming room floor and showed her driver’s licence to security.
Security told her she would have to get her passport as international driver’s licences are not accepted identification on the gaming floor – the only place in the casino you need such ID.
”She had to go back to her room and get her passport and she was clearly not happy about it,” our insider said.
Anyway, whatever. But I’ve been thinking about Cleo’s editor Sharri Markson – who no doubt thought very carefully about giving Osbourne the coveted back page column in her relaunched mag and paid big bucks to bring her to Australia to spruik Cleo. And suddenly she’s getting into barneys with security guards and shouting at influential gossip columnists.
Sydney Confidential’s Joel Christie wrote a pretty damning piece today in The Daily Telegraph about his disastrous interview with Osbourne this week where she tore strips off him for asking her a couple of innocuous questions about her boyfriend and the fact the name of her first Cleo column is called ‘Life Is Just Shit Sometimes’. This, after conditions were laid down before the interview started, namely that no questions were to be asked about her family. Um, OK? How’s the weather then?
Top Comments
I think that Kelly has a valid point, the bouncers in The Star, scrap that, anywhere in Sydney are very guilty of being more than jobs worths, rude, obnoxious, arrogant and clearly unhappy with their chosen profession. Or maybe extremely happy at the fact that they've been given a shred of authority... Power trip comes to mind! Obviously I haven't met every bouncer in Sydney so can't tar them all with the same brush, what I can say is the majority of ones I have met, especially in the Star are all of the above! As for Kelly, I don't see what her editing a column has to do with being disgruntled that an international drivers licence wasn't accepted, when it is a form of acceptable valid ID everywhere else in the world!!!!!!!
Choosing Kelly Osbourne as a columnist after announcing the focus for the re-brand of Cleo is *apparently* intelligent journalism is hilarious. Sounds like Sharri wants to make a name for herself before the mag sinks. She is after all Max Markson's daughter. Or perhaps she gets the whole nepotism thing?