Kelly Osbourne’s young son, Sidney, paid tribute to his late grandfather, Ozzy, as he got ready to celebrate the Halloween festivities over the upcoming weekend
Kelly Osbourne’s son has paid tribute to Ozzy. The late Prince of Darkness tragically died earlier this year after suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease with autonomic dysfunction (joint causes).
But as the world prepares to get dressed up and celebrate the Halloween festivities, the Osbourne family is no different. Over the years, the late Ozzy has become synonymous with Halloween, with many choosing to dress as the Black Sabbath icon.
This year, however, Kelly’s young son, Sidney, went one step further and channelled one of Ozzy’s most infamous moments. Taking to TikTok, Kelly shared a video of her son, whom she shares with Slipknot’s Sid Wilson, biting off the head of a stuffed bat.
“Learned from the greatest, Papa!”, Kelly captioned her video, which showed the little one laughing after tearing the head off the stuffed toy. Her post, which has been liked over 226,000 times, was flooded with messages from Kelly and Ozzy’s fans.
“Imagine your dad is Sid Wilson from Slipknot and your grandfather is Ozzy. He’s so cute,” said one. A second added: “The fact yall have bat with a removable head is iconic in itself.” “Learned from his papa and will continue to grow learning from his daddy! Future Rockstar,” said a third.
Meanwhile, a fourth went on to say: “He looks so much like Ozzy OMG.” “That smile, he’s definitely a little Ozzy,” gushed another. “Oh my goodness! He looks exactly like Ozzy! His little face is exactly the same! Awww,” commented a sixth fan. Ozzy is believed to have torn the head off a bat while on stage in 1982.
He was two months into his tour to promote his second solo album, Diary of a Madman. While on the road, Ozzy started a tradition where he would catapult pieces of raw meat and animal parts into the audience. Word quickly spread through his fans and they started coming to the shows armed and ready to retaliate.
During his show at Des Moines’ Veterans Memorial Auditorium, something small and black was lobbed on stage with Ozzy thinking it was a rubber toy. Writing in his memoir, I Am Ozzy, released in 2010, he said that the second he bit into the object, he knew something wasn’t right. Ozzy said: “Immediately, though, something felt wrong. Very wrong.
“For a start my mouth was instantly full of this warm, gloopy liquid, then the head in my mouth twitched. Somebody threw a bat. I just thought it was a rubber bat. And I picked it up and put it in my mouth. I bit into it, ‘oh no, it’s real’. It was a real live bat.” However, just four years prior to this, Ozzy said something completely different.
During a conversation with the BBC, he said: “This bat comes on. I thought it was one of them Halloween joke bats ‘cos it had some string around its neck. I bite into it, and I look to my left and Sharon [Osbourne] was going [no].
“And I’m like, what you talking about? She [says], ‘It’s a dead real bat’ and I’m… I know now!” In an effort to settle the tale once and for all, the man who claimed to have taken the bat to the concert said it was, in fact, dead. Mark Neal was 17 years old at the time and told the Des Moines Register that his younger brother had brought the bat home a fortnight before. Sadly, it hadn’t survived, and by the time Mark took it to the concert, it had been dead for days.
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