Celebrity Big Brother star Sharon Osbourne has stunned her family by telling them she wants to buy a pet TIGER.
The music impresario said she wants to house train a Big Cat and would also consider a panther. Sharon, 71, reckons it’s not a dangerous move “if you rear them from when they’re babies” and said she would call it ‘Big Puss’.
She added: “People have them has pets in Dubai. They drive them in their cars there, people have them as normal pets.”
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Sharon was discussing it on their family podcast The Osbournes but was blasted by the others.
Jack, 38, fumed: “Mum, they also have slaves in Dubai. I don’t think Dubai should be the standard. The most apex predators on planet Earth are tigers. Have you ever seen the footage of the tiger attacking the ranger on top of the elephant?
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“It runs out of the grass. I’ll show you this footage and then you might reconsider.”
Her husband Ozzy cited magicians Siegfried and Roy who used a tiger called Montecore in their Las Vegas act.
In 2003, the exotic animal attacked Roy on stage, biting his neck and almost killing him.
But Sharon argued: “Yeah, but they were exploiting them, having them on stage, dancing to music, prancing around in Vegas.
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“Hold on, do you remember when we went to Vegas and they had them in a glass cage in the reception of a bloody hotel? Back and forth and back and forth.”
Ozzy, 71, warned his wife that he wasn’t agreeing on adding a tiger to their collection of dogs and cats.
The Prince of Darkness moaned: “So where would you have it? Would you let a tiger walk around the house? You’re f***king insane. You ain’t having a f***ing tiger. I am not letting you have a f***ing tiger anywhere around here.”
Former world heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson is a big fan of the beasts and owned three Bengal tigers at one stage.
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Four years ago the battle between zoo owner Joe Exotic and animal rights activist Carole Baskin gripped TV viewers in hit Netflix documentary series Tiger King.
Hollywood actress Tippi Hedren – mum of Melanie Griffith – had a fully grown lion live with her family in the 1970s and even allowed her daughter to play with it when she was aged just 13.
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