What was TV's loss became the music world's gain. It has been revealed that Whitney Houston had a chance to star on the award-winning sitcom The Cosby Show , but declined the opportunity for fear of jeopardizing her music career. The DailyMailOnline.com reports that the late Diva was offered the part of Cosby's eldest daughter, Sondra Huxtable. However, the show's director Jay Sandrich recalls, that when it came to putting ink to paper the multiple Grammy-winning artist proved reluctant. He said: 'So we gather in this room and there are kids from New York and Los Angeles and they are all signing their contracts, and this girl who we brought from New York said, 'I can't sign this contract.''