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Sharon Osbourne Quits America's Got Talent....

.......in the name of discrimination.

/></div> </div> </div> <p><strong>Sharon Osbourne</strong> has officially handed NBC her I QUIT papers and will not sit with <strong>Howard Stern</strong> and <strong>Howie Mandel</strong> at the <em><strong>America's Got Talent</strong></em> judges table next season. Sharon is breaking up with NBC, because she says the network did her son <strong>Jack Osbourne</strong> dirty.</p> <p>Jack was supposed to be in NBC's reality boot camp show <a href=Stars Earn Stripes, but Sharon tells The New York Post that he was fired shortly after he went public about having MS. Jack never signed a contract to do the show, but Sharon says he had a verbal agreement with the network and showed the Post an e-mail from NBC's VP of talent relations welcoming Jack to NBC. But one month after Jack announced he has MS and two days before shooting started, NBC cut him from the show and said they didn't think he physically could handle some of the show's challenges. Jack told the network he'd pay for his own insurance and said he could handle the show's physical challenges. But the network still shook its head no and said the only thing they can do is pay Jack his full appearance fee. Sharon explained it like this:

"He didn’t want the money. He wanted his gig. It gave him something to look forward to when he was diagnosed. Think of the good that it could have done to show other people who have this [condition] that your life is not over.”

Sharon has a contract with NBC for a few more seasons of AGT, but she says they can't do anything to her except keep her from judging another reality show for the next five years.

"I just can’t be fake. It’s discrimination, and it was badly handled. It’s time to move on. They can’t make me do something I don’t want to do. All they can do is stop me from being a judge on another network for five years."