How is Ozzy Osbourne doing now? Troubled family: “King of Darkness” Ozzy Osbourne and his incomparable Sharon
One of the three children of the great and terrible Ozzy Osbourne for a long time remained in the shadow of her star family. It’s hard to imagine, but despite the fact that the life of the rock musician and his family is seemingly turned inside out, few people know about Aimee Osborne. The eldest daughter flatly refuses the popularity that Jack and However, the public's interest in her person does not subside. In this article we will tell you everything you didn’t know about the daughter of the father of heavy metal.
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Aimee Rachel Osbourne was born into the family of musician Ozzy Osbourne and music producer Sharon Osbourne. This joyful event happened a year after their wedding, namely on September 2, 1983.
In her early childhood, around the early 90s, Aimee appeared in documentaries and several videos related to her father's career. In 2014, she worked on the voice acting for the animated film Postman Pat. Very little is known about Aimee Osborne’s biography, since the girl leads a private lifestyle.
The Osbournes Show on MTV
In 2002, the Osbourne family took part in the documentary reality show Keeping Up with the Osbournes. The essence of the program was to show the viewer the real life of the family of a popular musician. In it, the Osbornes did not mince words, made fun of each other, smoked and drank alcohol. In general, they lived their usual lives, but under the gaze of television cameras.
An interesting fact was that the eldest daughter of Sharon and Ozzy, Aimee Osbourne, categorically refused to take part in the filming of the program. In addition, she tried with all her might to dissuade her family from this idea, but it was all in vain, and “Keeping Up with the Osbournes” finally went on air.
An attentive viewer might have noticed that during the show of the Osborne family nest, Aimee’s face was either erased or completely absent in all the general photographs. There was also no mention of her in the show.
Aimee herself, agreeing to very rare interviews, shared that her refusal to participate in the filming was justified by the fact that she did not want to air out the dirty laundry of her already scandalous family. She also said that she was very worried about her parents and brother and sister, imagining what kind of fame this show would bring them.
A little later, she stood up for her and told reporters that her eldest daughter is very protective of her personal space and personal life, for which no one has the right to judge her.
It is also known that Aimee Osborne does not communicate with her brother and sister because she does not accept their lifestyle, which includes drugs and alcohol.
Music career
Since 2010, Aimee became interested in music. Apparently, no matter how much I wanted to leave the world of show business, genes took their toll. In 2015, a video by the group ARO appeared on YouTube, which in just a couple of weeks gained 2 million views and a lot of positive reviews. But not everyone initially knew who the main participant in this action was. When the public learned that the girl performing the song was the daughter of that same Ozzy Osbourne, many respected her even more.
The song "Raining gold", although it was warmly received, was never included in any hit parade.
But Aimee is not at all saddened by this fact. Because she always strived for independence and did only what she considered right.
“You should never label someone based on your assumptions,” says Aimee
The dark and gloomy musical group ARO, led by Aimee Osbourne (daughter of vocalist Ozzy Osbourne), presented a new video for the single “Raining Gold”, which was officially released on March 5th. In the future, the musicians plan to release a mini-album and go on tour (concert dates will be announced later).
“Our video for “Raining Gold” naturally tries to highlight one of the messages that is embedded in the song. Namely, you should never label a person or situation based solely on your assumptions, comments Aimee Osborne in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. – There is also the idea that this choice will allow someone to control you. I've been on both sides and I think most people have too. It's one of the loneliest things in the world."
“I wanted the song to touch on the theme of isolation and oppression of a person. It's important to get out of those labels and just believe in yourself, Aimee adds. - Nowadays, it is so valuable to always try to put yourself in the place of another person. I hope my song reminds people of that."
It is worth noting that at one time Aimee Osbourne refused to appear in the reality show “Keeping Up with the Osbournes.” Moreover, she left home and family to be away from the cameras. Aimee later said in an interview: “I want to be a singer. It seems to me that if I had stayed with “Family” then and become a participant in this show, then right now I would only be a ghost.”
The grandparents of hard rock, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, have been together for over thirty years. They went through fire and water, drugs and alcohol, scandals and betrayals. “April”, together with the creator of congratulatory slide shows and romantic confessions, Morevi.ru, talks about the strangest and strongest couple of modern show business.
Halloween love story
Looking at young Ozzy and Sharon, hardly anyone could have guessed that the first, the son of poor workers from the outskirts of Birmingham, who cannot really sing, would become a famous musician, and the second, a plump little girl from the town of Brixton, whose population is barely has exceeded a thousand inhabitants, you will have a beautiful producer and muse of the great Ozz.
Ozzy graduated from school at age 15 and worked wherever he could: at a construction site, a factory, and even a slaughterhouse. However, he didn’t stay anywhere for long, except perhaps in prison for 6 months. The future “Prince of Darkness” was sent there for petty theft.
When Ozzy came out it was the end of the 60s - the peak of the Beatles' popularity, and every second boy from the British outskirts tried to repeat the success of the Fab Four. Ozzy also tried, placing a short ad in the local newspaper that went something like this: “Ozzy wants to sing. There is an amplifier."
Oddly enough, other equally talented aspiring musicians responded to this ad, including Ozzy’s classmate Tony Iommi. After several years, concerts and rehearsals, the band Black Sabbath was born, playing heavy, dark music with dramatic and dark lyrics.
In the mid-1970s, the group had a new manager - the tenacious and tough Don Arden, about whom there were very unflattering legends in the British music world. He was called the “Godfather” and “Al Capone” of rock, he conducted business so harshly, for example, he could easily hang a competitor from a balcony and threaten to throw him off.
While Don was promoting the pseudo-Satanists from Black Sabbath, his daughter Sharon was growing up at home - that same plump girl who at first was simply a fan of the musicians.
"Prince of Darkness" and his "Tamer"
On their wedding anniversary on July 4, 2015, Sharon Osbourne tweeted a photo with the caption: “Married for 34 years, together as a couple for 36 years, friends for 45 years.”
They met when Sharon was still underage. Ozzy was married in his first marriage and raised (so to speak) two of his own children and a third from his wife’s first marriage. Ozzy was older, liked to drink and did not shy away from drugs in large doses.
This almost put an end to his career, and in 1978 he was kicked out of Black Sabbath. The musician periodically could not stand on his feet, let alone work. He spent about six months in chronic drinking until Sharon appeared.
This 17-year-old fat girl turned out to be no less enterprising than her father, and the strength of the girl’s character could be envied by the “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher herself.
So Sharon took matters into her own hands. She brought Ozzy out of the depression that resulted from his drinking and forced him to return to the stage, having previously won Osbourne's contract from his father. Before her, no one had been able to cope with Don Arden. Since 1979, Sharon took over the duties of Ozzy's producer and from that moment did not speak with her father again until his death in 2012.
Under the strict guidance of Sharon, Ozzy assembled a new band, continuing to play the same heavy, dark rock and went crazy on stage.
The incident of biting off the bat's head has already become canonical: one of the spectators threw the dead animal to the singer, and Ozzy, deciding in a drunken stupor that the mouse was plastic, bit off its head. At the end of the concert, the musician had to take rabies injections.
"The Osborne Family"
On July 4, 1982, John Michael Osbourne (real name Ozzy) and Sharon Arden became husband and wife. The wedding was celebrated in Hawaii, and a year later the Osbornes had their first daughter, Aimee. A year later, Kelly was born, and a year later, son Jack.
All this time Mrs. Osborne managed not only to give birth and raise children, but also to manage her husband’s career. Her style of doing things wasn't much different from her father's, except that she didn't hang people out of windows. In the world of show business, Sharon Osbourne is respected and feared.
With her husband it was and is much more difficult for her than with a bunch of children or with cunning competitors. Ozzy continued to drink and take drugs, and also sometimes went on the wrong side.
The first “last straw” was vodka. In August 1989, Ozzy participated in the Moscow Music Peace Festival and returned home from Moscow, according to various sources, either with a box or with a large bottle of vodka, which he immediately decided to drink. As a result, the musician had an attack of delirium tremens, and he tried to strangle his wife, shouting “We decided that it’s time for you to leave.”
Sharon was able to fight back and call the police, and then issued a restraining order against her husband - he could not get close to her and the children for several months.
And yet, Sharon found the strength to forgive the “obscurantist,” and the business had to continue. Ozzy returned home and continued to periodically indulge in his sins, and then undergo treatment for drug or alcohol addiction.
Such a life could not help but affect his appearance and Ozzy began to undergo plastic surgery. Sharon also spent millions on her transformation; now few people recognize her as the homely fat woman whom Ozz once married.
In the early 2000s, Sharon decided to warm up the waning interest in her husband’s person and agreed with MTV to film the show “Keeping Up with the Osbournes.” The success of the program exceeded even the wildest expectations of its authors.
The show itself showed the “Prince of Darkness” from a different perspective. The head of the family turned out to be Sharon, and the “great and terrible” Ozzy turned out to be an ordinary henpecked man who spent his days on the couch and was unable to manage his own children.
It later turned out that the show with the participation of Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack (the Osbournes' eldest daughter refused to participate) was partly staged.
Demon in the rib
Earlier this year, the tabloids made the Osbournes headline news again: after more than 30 years of marriage, the couple suddenly announced they were divorcing. According to Sharon, Ozzy, who has always had a violent temperament, cheated on her with a hairdresser half his age. This was not the first betrayal, but this time Sharon could not stand it and threw her husband out the door - think about it.
But less than two months after the announcement of adultery, the “Prince of Darkness” began to ask to return and appease his wife publicly.
So, on the eve of her birthday, Sharon participated in one of the TV shows, and the ex-leader of Black Sabbath unexpectedly appeared on the program with a huge bouquet of flowers to congratulate his wife. The romantic reunion was immediately witnessed by television cameras and spectators.
“He has been undergoing treatment for sexaholism for three months now and is working on himself. It’s very difficult for him, just like for all of us. But I’m happy that he made the right decision to fight his demons,” Sharon later told reporters.
Whether this was actually another PR move or just a shake-up needed for their marriage, only members of the Osborne family know.
Don't spill the water
Not only does Sharon help her husband fight his demons, Ozzy has also been by her side in more than just health and joy. Several years ago, Sharon was diagnosed with cancer, with a survival rate of 40%, but she was able to overcome the disease.
Ozzy and Sharon have been worried about the health of their son Jack, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, for many years, and for many years they have been grandparents to two little granddaughters who were given to them by Jack and his wife.
Be that as it may, Sharon and Ozzy are back together and hopefully will live many more years side by side. No matter how strange and sometimes ridiculous their couple may look from the outside, it seems they really found each other.
“I call my hubby a dirty dog,” Sharon said in an interview. “He may be a dirty dog, but he is my dirty dog. I’ve known him since I was 18, and now I’m 64, can you believe it?”
Meanwhile, Ozzy “triumphantly” returned home: Sharon bought a special mattress with sensors for him in order to henceforth control all the body movements of the “Prince of Darkness.”
On December 3, the great and terrible Ozzy Osbourne was born in Birmingham, UK. The permanent leader of the Black Sabbath group, a loving father and husband, a style icon for Satanists and a completely successful showman. This multifaceted personality celebrates his 68th birthday today. And half of his life - 34 years - Ozzy, whose real name is John Michael Osbourne, lived with his wife Sharon. Now, they say, this one of the longest marriages among celebrities is bursting at the seams, but this is not a reason on the birthday of such a man not to appreciate him as a family man.
Sharon and Ozzy with matching hairstyles in 1978.
Sharon met her future husband Ozzy at age 18 while working for her father Don Arden, who was Black Sabbath's manager at the time. When Ozzy was fired from the band in 1979, Sharon began dating him and took his music career into her own hands. Three years later, on July 4, 1982, Ozzy and Sharon married in Maui, Hawaii.
Ozzy and Sharon on Halloween in 1986.
The couple has three children: Amy (born 1983), Kelly (born 1984) and Jack (born 1985).
At home with their children - daughters Amy and Kelly and son Jack - in 1986.
Ah, this family life! 1989
“When we got married, our friends made a bet on how many weeks our marriage would last. And we surprised everyone!”
A surprisingly ordinary family portrait from the early 90s.
In his autobiography, I Am Ozzy, Osbourne writes candidly about his long-term struggle with alcoholism. According to the singer, he began abusing alcohol at about the age of eighteen, and by the age of forty he became a chronic alcoholic, drinking three to four bottles of strong alcohol (vodka or cognac) a day. He repeatedly tried to get rid of his addiction, going to various rehabilitation centers (including the Betty Ford Clinic), and was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, but periods of sobriety were followed by binges. During treatment for alcoholism, he also became addicted to drugs (Vicodin, Valium, etc.). Osborne finally stopped drinking and abusing medications only in the mid-2000s.
The photo shows the whole family (not counting Amy). The Osbournes allowed cameramen to place cameras throughout the house since the hit TV show The Osbournes began in 2002.
On May 19, 2002, MTV in England and Ireland began showing the documentary television series The Osbournes about Ozzy Osbourne and his family.
In form, this film was a dramatized and real filming of the life of the characters in the “Osborne family,” filled with everyday troubles and joys. There was a carefully hidden scenario (in the last episode of the last season, you can see how they are holding signs with words). The Ozzy family appeared to be similar to the Simpson family. According to Ozzy himself, “one broadcast destroyed millions of fantasies,” because the “godfather of metal” appeared as a henpecked husband and unlucky dad, unable to cope with his offspring.
That same year, Sharon was diagnosed with cancer, but she insisted that filming of the show continue.
In July 2002, Osborne was diagnosed with colon cancer. She later admitted that the tumor had spread to the lymph nodes and became more dangerous than originally thought. However, she insisted on continuing filming the show Keeping Up with the Osbournes. She managed to beat the cancer, although her survival rate was less than 40%.
On The Jay Leno Show in 2002, while discussing Sharon's decision to launch her own TV show, The Sharon Osbourne Show.
In 2003, Sharon created her own talk show, The Sharon Osbourne Show, which aired on several US channels, as well as on the British Sky One channel. However, the show was not a ratings success and Osbourne was heavily criticized for failing to perform the basic tasks required of a talk show. The show was canceled in early 2004 after airing one season.
By 2003, The Osbournes was earning the highest ratings on MTV in both the US and the UK. The show's final episode aired in the United States on March 21, 2005.
In 2005, Sharon Osbourne released an autobiographical book, co-authored by Penelope Dening. The book was called “Extreme, or My Autobiography,” and it told about Sharon’s difficult childhood, her ups, downs and personal life. The book became a worldwide bestseller and sold more than 621,000 copies in 15 weeks.
Ozzy with his overly serious teenage children, smiling wife and American Music Award.
The couple almost divorced after Sharon Osbourne found out on the eve of their 30th anniversary that her husband had repeatedly used drugs and alcohol, although he gave up these bad habits about seven years ago. The couple stopped communicating and separated, but weeks later they began to live together again on the condition that Ozzy join an Alcoholics Anonymous group and undergo a course of therapy. This and other stories of the star couple are presented in Osborne's book Unbreakable.
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne
The Osbornes are one of the most famous families in the world. And it’s not even about the popular show “Keeping Up with the Osbournes,” which brought them $50 million - unlike the Kardashians, Ozzy and Sharon were known long before the start of the television project. Their path to fame began in their youth: Ozzy, who grew up in a not very prosperous family, was interested in music since childhood and became one of the founders of Black Sabbath. The group quickly acquired fans, and the musicians acquired the manners of heavy metal stars (read: drug and alcohol addiction, disgusting habits and a tendency to crazy antics). Perhaps the only bright moment in Ozzy's youth was his wedding with Sharon, although their love story is far from romantic ideals. Over 33 years of marriage, Sharon and her husband went through fire and copper pipes. In later interviews, the musician often said that he owed his life to his wife. And she, in turn, said that she would divorce Ozzy even if he were the prince of darkness three times over. The latest news about their separation broke a few days ago.
This time the reason for the breakup was the musician’s love of love. In March, Sharon shocked the public with the announcement that Ozzy was having affairs with two of his own children's four nannies. The last straw that broke Sharon's patience was Ozzy's affair with a 45-year-old hairdresser, a Black Sabbath fan. Having learned about the betrayal, she kicked her husband out of the house, and he, in turn, disappeared for several days. According to a source close to the couple, this time Sharon is seriously angry with Ozzy and is determined to get a divorce. We've put together three reasons why they shouldn't do this.
Ozzy Osbourne
Dating in heavy metal style
Ozzy and Sharon met when she was 15 and he was about 20. The girl's father Don Arden was the manager of Black Sabbath, so Sharon fell in love with Ozzy when he was still a shaggy weirdo and not a superstar. In the late 70s, Osbourne left the group and Sharon, deeply in love with him, persuaded him to start a new one and hire her as its manager. His lack of initiative was understandable: in the life of a rock musician there is no place for calm career planning and, especially, traditional family values. He drank himself into oblivion, played in third-rate clubs and led a promiscuous sex life, and Sharon still did not lose hope that Ozzy would settle down. And so it happened: one fine day he got married. But not on her: the first Mrs. Osborne was a model who gave birth to two children for the musician. However, their family idyll did not last long: life in art brought Ozzy and Sharon closer, first physically, then spiritually, and in 1982 they finally got married.
"Family" Osbourne: Ozzy and Sharon with their children - son Jack and daughter Kelly
Life on the brink of death
Family joys almost took Sharon’s life twice. At first, she almost died during childbirth: while the Osbournes’ eldest daughter, Aimee, and youngest son, Jack, were born easily, there were problems with the middle daughter, Kelly. The birth lasted 18 hours and required a caesarean section, multiple blood transfusions and an intense struggle by doctors for the mother’s life. At this time, Ozzy did not leave his wife a single step - he was generally present at all the births, which is surprising. Then Sharon almost became a victim of her own husband: fatherhood did not make him an exemplary family man. Once, having drunk to the point of unconsciousness, he began to strangle Sharon and would have strangled him if not for the children, who thought to call the police. Ozzy was arrested for his action, but swore that he remembered absolutely nothing. It would seem that after this you need to immediately file for divorce, but no: the faithful wife took her rowdy husband on bail and actively began to treat him. “He’s crazy, of course, but I love him,” Sharon explained.
Health problems
Ozzy and Sharon vowed to love each other in sickness and in health—it's time to keep that promise. It’s clear that Ozzy’s health is quite poor. The musician faced old age with severe hearing loss, recently diagnosed Parkinson's disease and severe back pain - the consequences of a terrible injury received in 2003 when falling from a motorcycle. Then he broke his collarbone, six ribs and one of his cervical vertebrae. The musician, however, has a philosophical attitude towards the thickness of the medical record: “With the lifestyle that I led for thirty years, I could have died a thousand times already.” And he would have given it if it weren’t for the concerns of his faithful wife, who, by the way, is also not going well with her health - in 2001, Sharon was diagnosed with cancer, had surgery, but could not do without chemotherapy.