Sharon Osbourne Opens Up About Living With a Partner Who Has Parkinson’s Disease
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne are one of the oldest and most well-known “it” couples. Ozzy is famously known for being the main vocalist for the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and his family’s life became publicized while filming for their reality show (2002-2005), The Osbournes.
The couple got married in 1982, and have had three children together since then; Aimee, Kelly, and Jack. Now, it has been forty years since the couple first tied the knot. For much of their marriage, their lives have been nothing short of chaotic (as one might expect from marrying a famous musician), and thousands of people have adored watching their antics on television.
As far as the show goes, Ozzy has said he wasn’t expecting the booming success that it achieved. And why wouldn’t it? A man known as the Prince of Darkness who ate a head off of a bat on stage was now being filmed doing far more normal things and being, well, human. “We invented a new form of television,” he said, “we got the ball rolling for all these new shows now.:
Though rocky at times, it is undeniable that Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne have the sort of relationship that’s written in the stars. But they have been facing a new struggle in more recent years–Ozzy’s diagnosis with Parkinson’s Disease.
The Black Sabbath legend, age 73, was first diagnosed with the condition in 2003, but he and his wife have become more open about what it has entailed for them since 2020. Wife Sharon Osbourne, age 69, has said that the diagnosis only brought them closer together, but also that her “heart breaks for him. I’m sad to see my husband this way, but what he goes through is worse. And sometimes when I’m looking at him and he doesn’t know I’m looking at him, I’m like, crying.”
The family has lived in America for the last two decades, and is set to move back to the UK. Not only that, but their reality show will be making a comeback to document their current lives in a “funny, moving, and honest” way. Viewers will get to support Ozzy and his health from across the world, and possibly help welcome Kelly Osbourne’s baby boy into the world.
The show, titled Home to Roost will be a BBC docu series of ten thirty minute episodes, filled with the good, the bad, and the ugly, of many major milestones of the family’s lives. Viewers will get to watch them adjust to living in the UK again, celebrate Sharon’s 70th birthday, and watch the family grow.
It’s an interesting move to bring back a reality show in the midst of so much personal chaos, but those of us who watched The Osbournes in its prime could not be more excited to see how the family is getting on and how they deal with trying times.
