Sharon Osbourne snubs Saara Alto’s X Factor homecoming campaign in bitter blow just days before the final

SHARON OSBOURNE and SAARA ALTO haven’t exactly got a  mother/daughter relationship.

Indeed, they’re more like distant cousins, a point proven by Mrs O’s reluctance to join her own act for her homecoming publicity campaign in front of 10,000 people, a huge show of force from Helsinki.

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Days before the X Factor final, Sharon left host DERMOT O’LEARY to travel to Finland to meet Saara’s fans on Monday in favour of flying back to the US as she does every week.

It’s hardly the show of support Saara needed despite the fact she's now favourite to win the show causing telly bosses to investigate whether votes are being cast from her homeland, which I revealed on Monday.

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A source said: “Sharon has commitments in the US with her TV show but you would think in this week of all weeks, she might pull rank and join Saara.

“She badly needs the support but clearly she’s not exactly a high priority for her.”

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Sharon will instead join Saara in London later this week on her campaign trail, with X Factor bosses claiming Monday was the only day she couldn’t do.

But given she’s forgotten her name on numerous occasions and didn’t even want her put through during the Six-Chair Challenge, at this rate Sharon might not even raise a smile should Saara triumph on Sunday.

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