The Talk’s Sharon Osbourne reveals she and husband Ozzy were targeted by fraudsters who maxed out their credit cards
SHARON Osbourne has revealed she and husband Ozzy were targeted by scammers who maxed out their credit cards.
The 68-year-old explained on The Talk that her card was declined while she was trying to buy a 36th-birthday present for her daughter Kelly.
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne were targeted by credit card scammers[/caption]
On Tuesday’s episode of the CBS daytime show, Sharon recalled how both her card and Ozzy‘s were rejected.
“It’s my Kelly’s birthday today, I went out last night to pick up her gift,’ the presenter said.
“I give my credit card and they come back and say, ‘Do you have another credit card? It didn’t go through.’
“I say, ‘Just try it again,’ still didn’t go through [so] I hand them Ozzy’s. Then they come back and say, ‘Do you have another one? It didn’t go through.’ I’m like, ‘What’s going on?'”
Fraudsters maxed out both of their credit cards[/caption]
Sharon’s card was declined while she was trying to buy her daughter Kelly a present[/caption]
Sharon told her cohosts Sheryl Underwood, Eve and Carrie Ann Inaba that she contacted the bank to find out what was going on.
“Someone rang up charges and maxed out Ozzy’s card and my card,” she said.
“I called through to the credit card company and they go, ‘No, no, no, you’re maxed out, so is Ozzy.’
“I’m like, ‘I don’t go to that store, or to that store.'”
She had wanted to get Kelly a gift for her 36th[/caption]
Sharon said fraud investigators are now looking over the case[/caption]
Sheryl commented that the Hollywood power couple probably have high credit limits, saying: “This wasn’t a couple of hundred dollars on a blouse.”
Sharon said fraud investigators are now looking over the case and are hoping to track down the scammers.
She added that she was still able to get a present for Kelly – who has lost 85lbs over the last two years – ahead of her birthday on Tuesday.
Last week, Ozzy joked that he and Sharon have sex “all the time”[/caption]
Sharon’s financial woes come after she revealed she’s almost a stone over her usual weight.
“I’m like 10 pounds over from what I usually am. And 10 pounds is a lot when you’re like 5-foot-1 and a smidge,” she said.
“It’s a lot of weight and so I started walking yesterday. I’ve got the bug.”
Her weight after she debuted her new fiery red hair on the talk show earlier this month.
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Sharon also received plenty of attention earlier this month as her cohosts gave emotional tributes to her on her birthday.
After Carrie-Ann called her a “bad**s,” Sharon’s husband Ozzy surprised her with a sweet message.
The 71-year-old opened up about their marriage when Eve asked the singer about his and Sharon’s sex life.
He said: “This pandemic has nearly killed me, she’s at it all the time. I just want to go back and rest.”