Along with being one of many greatest stars within the historical past of heavy metallic, Ozzy Osbourne was a father to 6 kids.
The world could be very acquainted with his two youngest, Kelly and Jack, by way of their starring roles on the ultra-popular actuality present The Osbournes and subsequent ventures into TV later of their grownup lives.
The opposite 4 have chosen to reside extra personal lives, however their father shared heat, humorous and generally regretful reminiscences about all six in his 2009 e book I Am Ozzy.
Here is a have a look at how every of them got here into Osbourne’s life and the vital classes he discovered and memorable experiences he had whereas being their father.
Jessica Osbourne
Born: Jan. 20, 1972. Measured in opposition to Osbourne’s profession, that is roughly 5 months after the discharge of Black Sabbath‘s third album, August 1971’s Grasp of Actuality and eight months earlier than September 1972’s Vol. 4.
Osbourne shares the harrowing story of his first daughter’s beginning in his 2009 autobiography I Am Ozzy, as he was compelled to drive his first spouse, Thelma Riley, to the hospital regardless of 1) being drunk, 2) not having an driver’s license and three) not having any thought methods to drive.
“It is a miracle I did not crash into the again of an ambulance, to be trustworthy with you,” he recalled. “However by some means I managed to get the wheels to cease shifting after which get Thelma out of her seat and into the maternity ward.”
He goes on to elucidate the he selected his Jessica’s center title, Starshine, as a result of it was a chilly, clear winter night time and he might see “gleaming constellations in each route” from their hospital room window.
Jessica has lived a largely personal life, though she made a quick look by way of cellphone on the second season of The Osbournes actuality present, to tell her father that he was a grandfather for the primary time.
Elliot Kingsley
Born: 1966. That is about 4 years earlier than the discharge of Black Sabbath’s February 1970 self-titled debut album.
When Osbourne met Riley in 1971, she already had a five-year outdated youngster, Elliot Kingsley, from a earlier relationship. After the couple obtained married, Osbourne adopted Elliot, though he confesses he was removed from the perfect father.
“He was a great child, however for some cause we by no means obtained on,” Osbourne explains in his e book. “I spent the entire time once I was residence screaming at him or whacking him across the ear ‘ole. I want it might have been higher with him, as a result of it is not like he ever did something band to deserve it. …To inform the reality, I should have been a horrendous stepdad.
Like his step-sister Jessica, Kingsley has saved a low public profile, working as a theater actor and by no means showing or being talked about on The Osbournes tv present.
Louis Osbourne
Born: 1975. The identical yr Black Sabbath launched their sixth album, Sabotage.
In 1975 Osbourne and his first spouse Thelma welcomed their third youngster, a son named Louis, even supposing they have been having critical relationship troubles. “Thelma actually suffered with me and I actually remorse that,” Osbourne admits in I Am Ozzy. “If there’s one factor I want for in my life, it is that I might take all of it again.”
Fortunately, in 2009 Osbourne reported that his relationship with each Louis and Jessica improved enormously after he give up consuming. “I see Jess and Louis on a regular basis now, too. They each obtained Thelma’s brains: Jess is a surveyor and Louis obtained a regulation diploma. Between them, they’ve given me 4 grandchildren, which is a loopy thought.”
Louis was in attendance at his father’s Again to the Starting farewell live performance. “I used to be sobbing at occasions,” he later wrote on social media. “It was all the things we wished it to be and extra.”
He additionally stood alongside his siblings throughout Osbourne’s funeral procession.
Louis, Ozzy and Jessica Osbourne, 1978
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Aimee Osbourne
Born: Sept. 2, 1983. That is a couple of yr and half after her father obtained into big trouble at the Alamo and two months earlier than he launched his first post-Randy Rhoads solo album, Bark on the Moon.
Osbourne and Riley divorced in 1982. Osbourne quickly married Sharon Levy, the supervisor of Black Sabbath’s supervisor Don Arden. She would wind up turning into Ozzy’s private supervisor after his departure from the group, serving to him grow to be one of many greatest solo stars in rock historical past.
The couple had their first daughter a couple of yr later, after Sharon made Osbourne promise to give up cocaine and do away with his massive assortment of weapons.
“[Aimee] was a guiding gentle for us, she actually was,” Osbourne declared in his e book. “It had been simply over a yr since Randy and Rachel [Youngblood] had died, and we have been solely simply beginning to recover from it. “With Aimee, we had a model new cause to be ok with life.”
Not like her youthful siblings, Aimee wished no a part of life as a actuality tv star and moved out of the household’s residence at age 16 as a substitute of showing on The Osbournes. “She hated the thought,” Sharon later advised People. “It was appalling to her.”
Aimee has remained decided to forge her personal path within the music trade, singing as ARO.
Kelly Osbourne
Born: Oct. 27, 1984. In different phrases, practically a yr after Bark on the Moon and about 15 months previous to the discharge of 1986’s The Ultimate Sin.
Ozzy Osbourne mentioned he knew his youngest daughter could be a spitfire the second she was born.” Kelly got here out into the world, screaming — and she or he hasn’t stopped since, bless her. She’s an actual chip off the outdated block,” he notes in I Am Ozzy. “I feel that is why I’ve all the time felt so protecting of her.”
Kelly’s brassy character on The Osbournes made her a breakout star on the present, which she briefly parlayed right into a recording profession earlier than shifting to tv internet hosting. She had her first youngster in 2022 (Sidney), with then-boyfriend Sid Wilson of Slipknot.
Her father stole the highlight when Wilson proposed to Kelly backstage at the Back to the Beginning concert, humorously (and fatuously) declaring, “Fuck off, you are not marrying my daughter!”
Jack Osbourne
Born: Nov. 8, 1985. That is two months earlier than the discharge of The Final Sin.
The beginning of Ozzy’s sixth youngster and third in in three years added some sudden challenges to the singer’s touring life. “For a couple of years I spent most of my time in a panic looking for Jack‘s consolation blanket, which was this little yellow teddy bear factor referred to as Child,” Osbourne recollects in his e book.
“Jack would go fucking insane if he did not have Child to cuddle and chew on. However we have been touring a lot, Child would get left behind. I grew to become obsessive about that fucking bear. I might come offstage and the very first thing I might say was, “The place’s Child? Has anybody seen Child? Make certain we do not lose Child!”
The elder Osbourne has regularly credited his youngest son with lastly serving to him get sober after many years of habit struggles. “I had a row with Jack,” he advised Variety in 2021. “I needed to speak enterprise. And I mentioned, ‘What have you ever ever fucking wished? I will offer you no matter you need.’ He says, ‘What a couple of father?’ That kicked me within the balls so arduous. It knocked me sideways.”
Like Kelly, Jack has parlayed his Osbournes fame right into a profitable TV internet hosting profession, most lately with the present The Osbournes Wish to Consider, wherein he will get his mother and father’ takes on well-known experiences of paranormal exercise.
In 2012 the youngest Osbourne revealed he had been identified with a number of sclerosis, however because of a cautious mix of treatment, food regimen, train and stress discount he has managed to keep away from extreme signs up to now.
He’s the daddy of 4 kids, the latest born to his second spouse, Aree Gearheart, in 2022.
Images of Ozzy Osbourne’s Household Via the Years
To have fun the life and legacy of Ozzy Osbourne, listed below are images of the rocker’s household from the late ’70s by 2024.
Gallery Credit score: Lauryn Schaffner