Osbourne 'Devastated', Sharon Osbourne is set to sign a £2million X Factor deal making her the highest-paid judge in the show’s history, the Sunday People can reveal.
The 60-year-old star will clinch her lucrative pay packet next week as Simon Cowell tries to boost the show’s ratings....Reported...mirror.co.uk.
Sharon is also expected to earn a further £500,000 in book and publishing deals.
Her good news comes amid reports that her marriage to Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy, 64, is in trouble after he went back on drink and drugs and they were hit with a £1.1million tax bill.
X Factor bosses feared Sharon might pull out of her agreement to be a judge on the show’s 10th anniversary special because of her marital woes.
But the Sunday People can reveal she WILL sign the deal which will help with financial problems.
Sources close to the mum-of-three and music mogul Cowell, 53, said: “Sharon will be an X Factor judge and it is only a matter of days before the deal is finalised.
“She is being paid a hefty sum of £2million as Cowell is desperate to have her on the show. She is also expecting to earn half a million more in book and publishing deals. There is no way she would turn down such a well-paid job.”
Simon’s latest offering is part of his plan to improve ratings for the ITV show which lost over a million viewers last year.
When Sharon went head to head with Danni Minogue on the X Factor in 2007 it pulled in more than 12 million viewers.
Nicole Scherzinger, 34, is demanding £1.5million to stay as a judge. She wants to double her money to star alongside Gary Barlow, 42, Louis Walsh, 61, and Sharon.
Last year Nicole got £750,000 less than Gary but more than Tulisa Contostavlos, 24, who looks unlikely to return.
Gary is also demanding £1.5million and Louis is said to be asking for £1million.
Sharon’s decision to sign will not help her 31-year marriage to Ozzy, who is on tour in New Zealand with Black Sabbath.
The couple have lived apart for weeks and Sharon looked sad last week on a holiday in Mexico with her daughter Aimee, 29.
Ozzy earlier confessed he had been on drink and drugs for 18 months but straightened himself out over a month ago.
The star returned to his hotel in Auckland last night for a cup of tea and went to bed at 11pm.
The day before, when asked on the city’s The Rock FM radio what he drinks these days, Ozzy replied: “A cup of tea. A cup of Yorkshire Gold with Manuka honey...and a row with the wife.”
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