Sharon Osbourne defends herself after forgetting her act’s name on The X Factor

Is Sharon OK?

Sharon Osbourne

by Polly Foreman |
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Sharon Osbourne has been exhibiting some fairly bizarre behaviour since The X Factor live shows began (and a bit before).

She looked like she was quite literally having the time of her life at the first show the other week – and we absolutely loved it.

As one tweeter put it, "Sharon is the drunk girl you meet in the club toilet who tells you your [sic] pretty and uses your hairbrush."

Nothing has ever been more true.

But she denies she was drunk, so maybe not actually true.

She grabbed Nicole’s boobs, forgot where her act Saara Aalto was from (FINLAND, SHARON, NOT NORWAY), and just generally put us in mind of someone inappropriately drunk at a low-key family event. In a good way.

And she took it to a whole new level last night.

Poor old Saara (who's having a really terrible time of it – are we the only ones who think she's pretty fab?) was in the firing line again.

After finding herself in the bottom two for the second time in a row, she was waiting for Sharon to introduce her in the sing off.

But Sharon forgot her name.

And we don't mean a momentary slip up, we mean she literally said to Louis Walsh: "What's her name?"

It was really bad.

She said: "OK everybody, now is the songbird from abroad" before her face turned to pure horror of the kind you see on yourself before doing an important presentation to your boss.

She then muttered to Louis: "what's her name?" and he said: "SAARA!"

But Sharon has jumped to her own defence, insisting she's "just terrible with names" while appearing on Good Morning Britain.

Piers Morgan asked her what we're all thinking: "Have you got a clue what is going on in this show" to which she responded: "Behave, you know what it is, I'm terrible with names."

"Maybe if I had of had a drink I'd be better with people's names, I should try drinking."

Hmmmmm.

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