In new BBC documentary Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, the couple look at wildlife and plan for the future only for Ozzy to pass away soonafter
Ozzy Osbourne is seen smiling as he got to briefly enjoy a return to England – and was excited to be there for his birthday. A new BBC documentary shows Ozzy with wife Sharon doing a tour of their home in Buckinghamshire on a buggy.
Cuddled up together looking at their lake, Ozzy says: “I could go down their and set up camp with my fishing pole one day.” Sharon adds: “I want to get some more deer because they’ve been dying of because they are so old.” Ozzy responds by telling her to get more, and the pair look happy and content back In the UK once more.
On returning, she says: “It was just like I could breathe. It’s our little piece of heaven. “All you hear are birds, little bit of our dogs barking, Ozzy screaming.”
Sadly, Ozzy died just weeks after returning home, and just days after his final farewell gig with Black Sabbath at Villa Park this Summer.
Ozzy, who would have been 77 in December this year, also says: “I’ll be spending my birthday in England, wow yeah. Go nuts for about a week, get all my toys out. Most of my toys are gone, my quad bikes. I am not allowed on them anymore. We had a lot of fun on them, me and Jack.”
He tells his daughter Kelly he is “scared” to go back because he is “so used” to LA, but he concludes he should go back as Sharon has told him it is “beautiful”. And he agrees once he is there. Ozzy died aged 76 on July 22 from a reported heart attack, just weeks after reuniting with his band for a farewell concert at Villa Park in his home city of Birmingham.
The BBC documentary was originally conceived as a series, announced in 2022 and called Home To Roost, and was to document Osbourne and his wife Sharon’s move back from the US, where they had lived for more than two decades.
But the project, filmed over three years, “evolved as Ozzy’s health deteriorated” into the one-hour film, the BBC said.
The documentary also makes it clear how in love Sharon and Ozzy were when he passed away.
Speaking to the cameras, Sharon revealed that Ozzy is “very romantic” and says he leaves her little notes around the house.
The notes can be seen on screen saying things like ‘You are the love of my life’ and ‘my baby girl I love you’.Other notes read: “Ya know what? I love ya”, and “Dearest darling Sharon, I don’t half love you.” Many of the messages have been framed by Sharon and remain a lasting memory in her home.
* Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, Thursday 2 October, 9pm, BBC One & iPlayer.
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