Kelly Osbourne has shared a moving tribute to late father Ozzy with social media followers, six days after his ‘unexpected’ death.
The Black Sabbath legend passed away at his Buckinghamshire home on July 22 following a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease.
Little more than a fortnight earlier, the 76-year old Osbourne had reunited with former bandmates Tony Iommi, ‘Geezer’ Butler and Bill Ward for an emotional farewell show at Birmingham‘s Villa Park – the home of his beloved Aston Villa.
Returning to Instagram on Monday, daughter Kelly, 40 – who accepted partner Sid Wilson’s marriage proposal at the show – drew attention to the close bond she shared with her father in an undated video of the pair, filmed when she was a teenager.
Perched on Ozzy’s knee in the brief clip, Kelly appears to reference his notoriously colourful use of the English language after telling an accompanying camera crew: ‘I can’t say f**k, I have to behave myself.’
Pulling her in for a hug, Ozzy jokes: ‘Terrible isn’t it, the way children speak these days?’
Kelly Osbourne has shared a moving tribute to late father Ozzy with social media followers, six days after his ‘unexpected’ death
The Black Sabbath legend passed away on July 22 following a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease – little more than a fortnight after performing at Villa Park (pictured)
‘But I learned from you daddy, it’s alright,’ she replies, to which he adds: ‘You learned from the best, baby.’
On Wednesday, MailOnline revealed that an air ambulance was called to Osbourne’s multi-million-pound country home as paramedics battled to save his life.
The Thames Valley air ambulance landed in a field close to Welders House, the singer’s Grade II listed mansion on Tuesday morning at around 10.30am.
It’s believed that calls from Welders House had led call handlers to believe that the Black Sabbath singer’s life was in the balance.
A chopper was dispatched from Thames Valley ambulance base at RAF Benson in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, some 27 miles from the mansion which is located close to the village of Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
The crew were airborne for around 15 minutes before landing in the grounds of the mansion and were then with Osbourne for around two hours, trying but failing to save his life, it’s understood.
The statement announcing his death was signed by four of his children, and it remains a mystery why his two other children, Jessica and Elliot, were snubbed from the family tribute.
Perched on Ozzy’s knee in a brief clip, Kelly appears to reference his notoriously colourful use of the English language after telling an accompanying camera crew: ‘I can’t say f**k’
Pulling her in for a hug, Ozzy jokes: ‘Terrible isn’t it, the way children speak these days?’
The rocker reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward for the first time since 2005 to bid an emotional farewell to his decades of performing live on stage.
After selling out in minutes, over 42,000 fans packed into Villa Park for the aptly-titled Back to the Beginning show, which saw Osbourne and Black Sabbath return to their hometown – 56 years after they formed there.
The final photograph of him before his death was taken on stage as he sat on a black throne aptly decorated with a bat to perform his best-known hits for his loyal fans.
His final words on stage were: ‘It’s the last song ever. Your support has enabled us to live an amazing lifestyle, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.’
A message on screen then read: ‘Thank you for everything, you guys are f***ing amazing. Birmingham Forever,’ before the sky lit up with fireworks.
L-R: Jack Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne in 2003 at the height of their reality TV fame in fly-on-the-wall MTV show The Osbournes
