Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne rose to a new level of fame when they opened the door of their Beverly Hills mansion to TV cameras in the early ’00s.
But only two of their three kids were along for the wild ride.
And Aimee Osbourne remains on the outs with her younger siblings to this day, Kelly Osbourne and Jack Osbourne staying in the public eye ever since they were teens casually cussing along with their parents on MTV’s The Osbournes.
“We’re not close at all,” Jack said on a July episode of the Disrespectfully podcast that dropped a week before Ozzy’s death on July 22. “We don’t have a great relationship. She’ll be the first to tell you that, so it’s no secret.”
Not that Aimee’s estrangement from Jack, 39, or Kelly, 40, stems purely from her decision 23 years ago to not participate in her family’s reality show. But she has remained absent from the family business endeavors—including The Osbournes podcast—ever since, even as she has pursued her own musical career.
“She doesn’t like it, no,” Sharon said on a May 2024 episode of the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast of her eldest daughter’s aversion to the spotlight. “She loves writing, she loves singing, but she doesn’t want to be a pop star.”
But all three kids, as well as Ozzy’s 50-year-old son Louis Riley from his first marriage, signed onto the family statement announcing his passing. And they gathered for Ozzy’s July 31 funeral procession through his hometown of Birmingham, England, after which the Black Sabbath singer was laid to rest in Buckinghamshire.
Talking to Barbara Walters in 2002, Aimee stressed that passing on The Osbournes had nothing to do with “not loving them, not wanting the world to know that I am a part of this family.”
Rather, she just wanted to finally do her own thing.
“My private life to me is very important,” Aimee, now 41, said, “so it didn’t feel right because my whole life, everything’s been so exposed, so I feel as though now I’m at an age and a time in my life where I can make that choice.”
The Osbournes, which was on from 2002 until 2005, didn’t ignore Aimee’s existence. But the production sometimes blurred her face on the rare occasions she was around, such as when Ozzy and Sharon renewed their vows in 2003, and otherwise took pains to not feature her.
“I’m not some weirdo depressed daughter that’s afraid of the world and locks herself in her room all day,” Aimee said in a 2008 interview, per the Independent. “I just didn’t choose to do the show.”
And Aimee was admittedly very self-contained even as a kid.
“I suppose I was the one that had to be in control a lot of the time,” she told the Independent in 2015. “But then it came naturally. And, for me, watching people get out of control, and be indulgent and dramatic was… well, very silly.”
Moreover, she emphasized, “I still felt I was trying to figure out who I was in the chaos of family life, so why on earth would I want that portrayed on television? I wanted to protect myself, my parents, my siblings, too. They were very young, very impressionable.”
When the family was deciding whether to do the show, “shouting matches” ensued, Aimee recalled. But “it didn’t matter what I thought, ultimately. This was their path, their decision, and they were of course at liberty to take the opportunity. Which they did.”
“Obviously, I would have liked to stay at home a little longer,” she added, “but it wasn’t to be.”
The idea of growing up on camera was “appalling” to Aimee, Sharon said on The Talk in 2018. “And so she left at 16 and I regret every day that she did. It broke my heart when she moved.”
But Aimee grew closer to her parents again over time. As for the singer and her siblings, “I wouldn’t say there is an ease between us,” she told the Independent, “but there is an acceptance. Do we socialize? No.”
And that didn’t change as time went by.
“We don’t talk,” Kelly said on Dax Shepard‘s Armchair Expert podcast in 2021. “We’re just really different. She doesn’t understand me. I don’t understand her.”
When they made The Osbournes, Jack said on Disrespectfully, Aimee “deemed doing a show on MTV as like, low-hanging fruit. She didn’t want to ride our coattails.”
Nor did she jump on the bandwagon when the show was a hit.
He and Aimee “never had that conversation” as to whether she ever regretted it, Jack said. “I guess, if I were her, I’d have wondered if my life would have turned out differently if I’d been on the show. But I don’t know.”
Keep reading to find out more about the whole Osbourne family:
Ozzy Osbourne
Born in Birmingham, England, Ozzy Osbourne—a.k.a. John Michael Osbourne—entered the world in 1948. However, it was another 20 years before his heavy metal band Black Sabbath—which he formed with Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward—debuted.
As the group’s star rose, Ozzy wed Thelma Riley in 1971. Together, they welcomed kids Louis and JessicaOsbourne, who joined Thelma’s son Elliot Kingsley from a previous relationship. However, the Prince of Darkness learned fame has a dark side.
“Money would buy the alcohol and the drugs,” he said in the 2020 doc Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne. “I behaved f–king badly.”
In 1979, Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath and launched his solo career. He and Thelma divorced in 1982 and he wed Sharon Osbourne (whose dad managed Black Sabbath) that year.
Throughout their marriage, Ozzy and Sharon were honest about their low points—which included him physically attacking her while under the influence in 1989 and the 2016 breakup she attributed to his infidelity—and high ones, welcoming their kids Aimee, Kelly and JackOsbourne in the ’80s and renewing their vows in 2017.
Many of the family’s ups and downs played out on their reality show The Osbournes, which ran from 2002 to 2005.
Later, Ozzy stepped back from the spotlight due to his health, including his Parkinson’s disease battles and surgeries for injuries caused by a 2003 ATV accident. He played in Black Sabbath’s final show in July 2025 and passed away weeks later at age 76.
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon, born in 1952, became Ozzy’s manager in 1979 following his split from Black Sabbath, but their business relationship soon turned romantic.
“I was still married to my ex-wife,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer admitted in Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne, “but I fell in love with Sharon.”
In addition to managing Ozzy, Sharon has repped groups like TheSmashing Pumpkins, Motorhead and The Electric Light Orchestra. However, her career expanded into TV after the family’s history-making series. In addition to starring on The Osbournes, Sharon competed on Celebrity Apprentice, served as a judge on The X Factor and America’s Got Talent, and hosted The Talk for 11 years before her 2021 firing.
Like Ozzy, Sharon opened up about her health over the years, including her 2002 battle with colon cancer (she was declared cancer-free the following year), a 2012 preventive double mastectomyand a medical issue that landed her in the hospital in 2022. And even after all of life’s ups and downs, the couple remained each other’s No. 1 fans.
“We’re two oddballs, and we were two wild young people that found each other,” Sharon told E! News in 2023. “I think we’re cut from the same mold. It’s not been easy. No relationship is easy, and you have to work at it. You get your ugly times, your bad times and your horrific times. But if you love each other, you’ll work through.”
Aimée Osbourne
Born in September 1983, Aimeeis the oldest of Ozzy and Sharon’s three children.
And she’s inherited her parents’ love of music—singing and writing songs both under her own name and with the band ARO.
But unlike her family members, Aimee didn’t appear on The Osbournes in the aughts.
“It just felt extraordinarily nepotistic,” she said on a 2021 episode of The Michael Anthony Show about her decision. “Being so aware of my father’s presence in the media growing up, my private life with him and my family was something to be protected.”
Noting she was a teenager at the time, Aimee added she didn’t want to lose that privacy or expose how “things were complicated within the family.” Plus, she felt like it just wasn’t a match careerwise.
“I knew so young what I wanted to do, and I really wanted to do it on my own merit, be taken seriously,” she continued. “I really believed in what I wanted to do and that avenue just didn’t fit into any of those visions that I had for myself and my future.”
Still, Aimee hasn’t avoided the spotlight completely. In fact, she acted in MTV’s 2003 adaptation of Wuthering Heights, did voiceover work for the 2014 animated film Postman Pat: The Movie and starred in her own music videos.
As for where Aimee stands with her siblings, Kelly has expressed how the two don’t communicate.
“We don’t talk,” Kelly said on Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard in 2024. “We’re just really different. She doesn’t understand me, I don’t understand her.”
Kelly Osbourne
Arriving 13 months after her sister, Kelly is Sharon and Ozzy’s youngest daughter.
A multihyphenate, she’s an actress (starring in Life as We KnowIt and So Undercover with Miley Cyrus), a singer (having released two albums), a reality star (appearing on The Osbournes and Dancing With the Stars) a competition judge (serving on panels for Project Runway: Junior and Australia’s Got Talent) a designer and a TV host, having helmed series like Project Catwalk, E!’s Fashion Police and Lego Masters Jr.
As she’s navigated life in the spotlight, Kelly has been open about challenges she’s faced, including her battle with addiction (she’s now sober), past breakups (she was previously engaged to model LukeWorrall and chef MatthewMosshart) and public scrutiny over her body.
“My life has come very, very far, and I am just so grateful for every mistake that I made in my life, for every lesson learned, for all of it,” she told Us Weekly in 2024. “I have such an incredible life. What could I possibly complain about?”
That life includes her son Sidney, born in November 2022, and her fiancé SidWilson, who proposed in July 2025.
With Sidney arriving 18 months after she got sober, “I truly believe that my baby saved me and made me a whole human,” she added to Us. “I don’t think I knew what love was before having the baby. I don’t think I truly had a purpose. I just went from thing, to thing, to thing, and this level of just self-hate and self-doubt that I used to have would take me out.”
Jack Osbourne
Sharon and Ozzy’s youngest child Jack entered the world in November 1985.
After starring on The Osbournes, he dabbled in acting—landing small roles on Dawson’s Creek and Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen’s movie New York Minute. Jack also continued to appear on reality and competition shows, including Union Jack, Jack Osbourne: AdrenalineJunkie, Dancing With the Stars and Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
However, he’s worked behind the camera too, producing documentaries like 2011’s God Bless Ozzy Osbourne and the 2013 series Alpha Dogs. Often times, Jack wears both hats—producing and starring in shows like Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour and his paranormal series Portals to Hell.
Jack has also shared much of his personal life with his fans, including his mental health struggles, road to getting sober in 2003, and the multiple sclerosis diagnosis he revealed in 2012.
“I kind of look at the diagnosis as a huge silver lining to be honest with you,” he told Today in 2017. “Before this, I would just be a typical 20-something-year-old and lounge around and just kind of kick it when I could. I don’t do that anymore. I hate wasting days. I’m always doing something and trying to accomplish something, whether it’s work, something social or doing something active. So for that, I’m appreciative of it.”
He’s also grateful for his family, which includes daughters Pearl, Andy and Minnie with ex-wife Lisa Stelly and daughter Maple with wife Aree Gearheart.
Louis Osbourne & Jessica Osbourne
Ozzy’s oldest kids from his marriage to Thelma admittedly didn’t spend a lot of time with the rocker, who was often away on tour.
“My recollection from my childhood with dad is that he’d be away for very long periods of time, and there’d always be a period of adjustment when he came home, and then it’d get to normality and then he’d go again,” Jessica said in the 2011 documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne. “So, it was a very erratic chidhood with dad.”
And when he was home, he’d frequently go to the pubs.
“When he was around and he wasn’t pissed, he was a great father,” Louis added. “But that was kind of seldom really.”
After Ozzy and Thelma split, he and his kids still kept in touch. In fact, there was an episode of The Osbournes where Ozzy received a call that Jessica had given birth and he was a grandfather for the first time. Louis has also shared that he sees Aimee, Kelly and Jack sporadically.
“I don’t travel half as much as I used to and they are in America,” he told Birmingham Live in 2012. “There is more chance of us seeing each other in a random New York hotel than us all getting round a table for a Sunday lunch. We meet on special occasions.”
He and his dad, however, made it a point to check in on the regular.
“Dad usually calls on a Sunday afternoon for a catch up and when he comes over to the UK we take the kids down,” Louis added. “Dad is great, very much a doting grandad.”
Little has been shared publicly about Louis and Jessica’s brother Elliot.
