Kelly Osbourne at Austereo's Sydney HQ. Source: The Daily Telegraph
IT'S far from exceptional to be screamed at by a celebrity when you write for a column like Confidential.
It's pretty vexing, however, when you're screamed at for spurious reasons.
Take my interview with Kelly Osbourne this week.
While the sit-down was meant to take place at her hotel room at The Star, some unforeseen reasons forced me to change the chat from face-to-face to phone.
Osbourne was in Sydney to relaunch Cleo last night after joining the magazine as a celebrity columnist.
There was one condition placed on the interview: No questions were to be asked about her family, specifically father Ozzy who was recently forced to admit a relapse to alcohol and prescription drug dependency after years of sobriety.
The conversation didn't start well: She called me "presumptuous" for calling her rumoured fiance her fiance.
"No worries, moving on. Your first column in the magazine is called 'Life Is Just Shit Sometimes'. Have things gotten any better since you wrote it?" I ask.
That was when it got prickly.
"You are trying to f ... ing turn this around and get shit on my family, aren't you?" she thundered. Kelly Osbourne is a celebutante and in her case that means she's a person made famous by her family connections.
She came to our attention on a reality series called The Osbournes, which painted that family as a highly dysfunctional unit - and then used daddy Ozzy as the springboard for a tenderfoot musical career by covering Madonna's Papa Don't Preach.
Why now, perhaps because she writes a column in a magazine and critiques the way people look on Fashion Police, is everything suddenly off limits?
I didn't choose to publish this because the Celebrities Being Difficult story is an easy one to write, but after hearing she lashed out at The Star, which helped fund her and her "boyfriend's" trip to Australia, because a security guard dared to treat her like a normal casino reveller, it's almost comforting to know her brattish behaviour extends beyond the average journalist.
Bit much A-list attitude from a confirmed B-lister
THE Star yesterday said an incident involving guest Kelly Osbourne had been "resolved" after the British B-lister lashed out at the casino's security this week.
Osbourne, who is staying at The Darling hotel and last night attended a mag event at the complex's Cherry Bar, took to Twitter to lambast a staffer as a "first class twat" after they queried her UK driver's licence.
Osbourne claimed she was treated "like a criminal".
She quickly backtracked yesterday, posting another tweet thanking The Star for their hospitality.
A Star spokeswoman said: "Our security team member asked her for additional ID as she was only carrying an international driver's licence, which is standard procedure.
"The matter has now been resolved with Ms Osbourne and we are looking forward to (further) hosting her."
Meanwhile, backstage sources at Sunrise say that Osbourne had a "tantrum" after being quizzed on her father Ozzy, who confirmed he had fallen off the wagon.
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