Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne to host BRITs

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are to host the BRIT Awards next year, it has been announced.

The X Factor judge and the Black Sabbath rocker will be in charge of the event's proceedings after last year's presenter Russell Brand was dumped after just one year on the show.

The last time a man and a woman had joint hosting duties at the bash was five years ago when Frank Skinner and Zoe Ball fronted the ceremony.

Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox were the previous male and female hosts before that in 1989, which has gone down as the most shambolic show in the event's history after the pair forgot their lines and Government Minister Kenneth Baker was booed by the audience.