Sharon Osbourne isn’t holding back any of her opinions on Mick Jagger expecting his eighth child at age 73 — or the wrinkles on various parts of his body.
In a rant that I’m bewildered anyone would think is appropriate, the 63-year-old said, “The thing that gets me is that at 73 his face is so wrinkly. All I do is I think his genitalia must be so wrinkly… it must be hanging, wrinkly and grey.”
The comments took place while The Talk cameras rolled, and Sharon visibly sundered her body in reaction to the thought.
She continued: “I just couldn’t think of anything worse. Because you look up and that is wrinkly and you look down and that is wrinkly, and that is like ‘no.'”
Sharon Osbourne didn’t stop there, but rather laid into Mick having a baby with 29-year-old Melanie Hamrick.
“He is 73,” she reminded everyone. “How much longer is he going to have anyway? Amazing – now he has got somebody to push him around in a wheelchair.”
“One hand on the stroller and one hand on the wheelchair,” Sharon’s The Talk co-star Sheryl Underwood chimed in, to which Sharon responded: “You got it! Over that cliff.”
Despite being nowhere near Mick, Ozzy, or even Sharon’s ages, I’m aghast at her words.
First, because it’s rare for someone to speak so bluntly about older men choosing to have kids later in life. It can be a taboo subject, but for the most part people take the high road and respect that it’s that couple’s choice whether or not to do so. In this case especially, it’s not as though this child won’t have the resources to be well cared for his or her entire life, no matter how old Mick grows to be.
I could see there being a point in having a thoughtful debate about if there is any age that it’s not wise at which to have a child at, but straight up mocking Mick? Pointless and rude.
And that brings me to point two — who the hell makes fun of another person’s genitals? Can you imagine if it were a man ranting about Sharon’s floppy labia?! Sharon’s never been known as one associated with the word classy, but the uncouthness of these particular comments blows my mind.
My heart goes out to Mick and Melanie right now, who never asked for their lives to be lit up on a morning chat show.
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