Sharon Osbourne to deliver alternative Christmas message

Fly-on-the-wall TV star Sharon Osbourne is go head-to-head with the Britain's Queen by delivering the alternative Christmas message, just months after she was herself a guest at Buckingham Palace, it was announced today.

The wife and manager of rocker Ozzy – now famous in her own right for the MTV show The Osbournes – will give the annual festive address on Channel 4.