Last September, “The Talk” co-host Sharon Osbourne was supposed to drop a big reveal on the show’s season opener, explaining why she missed over a month of airtime the previous spring.
One year later, viewers are still waiting — and wondering what Osbourne, 63, will say when “The Talk” returns this Monday (2 p.m. on WCBS/Ch. 2).
“Last year Sharon was supposed to reveal why she took a five-week emergency absence, but that never happened,” says “The Talk” leader Julie Chen — who promises Osbourne will finally tell all in the season premiere.
Osbourne’s absence from “The Talk” in May 2015 was shrouded in secrecy, though her rep was quoted (at the time) as saying Osbourne had collapsed “from physical and mental fatigue” and needed a month to recover. Osbourne also had hernia surgery that March, followed by pneumonia. (She battled colon cancer in 2002.)
So viewers can only guess what Osbourne will disclose on Monday.
“That’s going to be Sharon’s big reveal,” Chen says. “And I have a secret about my situation — I’m going to reveal something about my personal life.”
It’s all part of the show’s “Seven Wonders of ‘The Talk,’ ” in which all the co-hosts — including Aisha Tyler, Sheryl Underwood and Sara Gilbert — will answers viewers’ burning questions.
For Tyler, though, that probably won’t include her divorce from Jeff Tietjens — which she disclosed on “The Talk” last April once word broke of the couple’s split.
“When I talked about the divorce [on the air], it was not something I was ready to talk about at the time,” Tyler says. “I was forced to talk about it. It wasn’t that I was hiding, or that I was ashamed, but … my husband was not a public figure and I didn’t want to exploit him or talk about personal things it was not my business to talk about.
“Divorce is already the most excruciating, worst thing ever, especially when it’s being discussed or dissected in public,” Tyler says.
“I discussed it [on ‘The Talk’] because I had to.”