Osbournes set for teatime fun

Ozzy Osbourne managed to refrain from swearing for two hours while recording a TV interview - and may have secured his own show in the process.

14:21 21 April 2005

Ozzy Osbourne managed to refrain from swearing for two hours while recording a TV interview - and may have secured his own show in the process.

ITV bosses believe the former Black Sabbath star and wife Sharon would be a perfect frontman for a chat show, the Daily Star reports.

Apparently they are thinking of pitching the crazy couple up against Richard and Judy in the teatime telly slot when Paul O'Grady takes a break.

But the constant string of expletives that emanate from the rocker, whose life has been chronicled for the last five years in the hit MTV show The Osbournes, worried them.

It was not until the a recent recording of Parkinson that they realised that Ozzy and his X Factor judge wife could keep their mouths clean when they needed to.

Not one f-word emerged through the two-hour chat show with 70-year-old TV veteran Michael Parkinson - which means we could soon be seeing the pair livening up daytime telly.

Ozzy recently announced that he is planning to retire in Britain once he finishes touring, although the couple are likely to sell their Buckinghamshire mansion now that their children Kelly and Jack have moved out.