Kelly Osbourne has opened up about her family’s plans for their first Christmas without dad Ozzy, with the Black Sabbath legend having died aged 76 back in July
Kelly Osbourne says Christmas will “never be the same” for her again, following the death of her “magical” father Ozzy. The 41-year-old – whose son Sidney was expected to be a mascot at Aston Villa ’s Premier League game today – admitted that the family including mum Sharon are planning to honour the rock star on December 25.
She joked how the day always held good memories not least as Ozzy “tried to ruin Xmas every year because he was Scrooge”. Ozzy died just on July 22, aged 76, only a short time after a homecoming charity concert with his band Black Sabbath at Villa Park, a stone’s throw from his childhood home in Aston, Birmingham.
The rock star had been living with Parkinson’s as well as numerous health issues dating back to a life-threatening quad bike accident in 2003 in which he broke his neck. Speaking at the launch of Juliet Sear’s new signature bakeware collection at Fortnum & Mason in London, about facing the family’s first Christmas without Ozzy, Kelly said: ‘Christmas will never be the same….I will never be the same. The person I was before he died does not exist anymore. It changes you. He (Ozzy) was magical. There is no one like him.’
Kelly will spend the day at her mum’s in England, joined by her brother Louis and his family, cousins, but not sister Aimee or younger brother Jack who are both in LA. Speaking about their plans, the TV personality said she will hand over her chef’s apron and spoon to her brother Louis who is cooking.
“He’s head chef because he’s the best at cooking,” Kelly says. “We’re having a big turkey, and then the day after, we are going to a fancy restaurant somewhere, I’m not saying where! Somewhere lovely and have even more celebrations.”
She reveals Ozzy has passed down his culinary skills to his eldest son, Louis: “I think it came from my dad because my dad used to cook all the time.
“Shepherds Pie! And chips. The best chips you’ve ever eaten in your life.
“But Louis is a fantastic cook and I’m like through all of this, me and him, he’s been my pillar and he’s just the best human in the world. I have the best brothers in the world.”
Kelly said while her dad could cook, he drew the line at cooking on Christmas day. “Well, there was a reason why my dad used to hide the drugs in the oven because no one would ever look there,” she laughs. “He used to hide his paraphernalia in the oven.”
Recalling happy Christmas memories of Ozzy, Kelly said he’d dress up as Santa Claus, but things didn’t always go to plan.
“We used to set booby traps because we weren’t sure (it was Santa). We put fishing wire across the room and one time we heard my dad come clattering down and we almost did not get our presents that year, put it that way. We got in so much trouble!”
On Christmas Day the family will be sharing their favourite memories and stories of Ozzy around the table. “I never ever want my son to forget his Pappa,” said an emotional Kelly. “Just how special he was, or is, because I don’t believe he’s truly gone.
“Yesterday Santa came to the house and my son was so over the moon. He couldn’t believe it, and he was dancing and singing with him and it’s one of the most special things ever to create memories like that, and it made all of us so happy.”
This month Ozzy posthumously received the Birmingham Lord Mayor’s Award on what would have been his 77th birthday. Kelly and Sharon both collected it for him.
Sharon is taking things, “one day at a time,” adds Kelly. “She’s doing really well. She really is, considering.”
But Sharon will never leave the UK now Ozzy is laid to rest here. “I stay where my mum is, and I can’t leave my dad, so. My son goes to school here now.
“Home will always be Britain. This is where we are from. I go between here and my farm in Iowa in the Midwest. Never thought I’d become a Midwestern girl. I’m going back just after Christmas for New Year. I miss my cows and my chickens and my ducks. That will be healing for me.”
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