Sharon Osbourne finally discovered her grandfather’s name on ‘Who Do you Think You Are?’
The 66-year-old star – who has kids Jack, 33, Kelly, 34, and Aimee, 35 with her husband Ozzy – took part in the BBC ancestry show on Wednesday (04.09.19) in order to find out more about her family, having spent years estranged from her late mother, Hope Shaw, and father, Don Arden.
And she revealed that she did not even know her maternal grandfather’s name, explaining: "I have no idea of my grandfather’s name. My grandmother would never speak of him. It just wasn’t done."
However, Sharon went on to discover that her grandmother Dolly had a vaudeville act with her sister Ira and her husband Arthur.
Sharon could not believe her showbiz roots and even found a picture of the act, called the Hewson trio.
She said: "Hmm, I wonder what the novelty was to the act. They look like a very sassy trio to me!"
Sharon also discovered that her grandmother was out of work, separated from her husband and had an ageing mother and children to support.
Sharon said: "Oh my god. That is just heartbreaking… To have two kids, a husband gone, it must have been really hard. I knew my grandmother, not well. But I have a whole new respect for her."
Sharon’s father Don worked in the music business and the mogul, who died in 2007, tried to sue his daughter for millions when she took her husband away from his record label.
The ‘X Factor’ judge loathed her father and previously labelled him "an evil old b*****d".
She previously said: "There were times when I was on the floor crying and shaking because he’d threatened to come over to the house and kill me. He’s an evil old b*****d and I can’t wait for him to die."
Don reportedly made friends with Joe Pagano – who was a member of the Genovese, one of the five big Mafia families in New York – and Sharon made sure that her three children had nothing to do with Don and simply told them their grandfather was dead so they did not have to meet him.
She previously said: "I told them that because I didn’t want him anywhere near them and I certainly didn’t want them seeing him.
Sharon also disliked her mother Hope – who passed away in 1999 – and didn’t even attend her funeral.
She said: "I didn’t like my mother at all. There was no friendship, nothing at all."
Sharon Osbourne discovers grandfather’s name on Who Do You Think You Are?
