A new BBC documentary, Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, shows Ozzy Osbourne making plans for the future in what turned out to be his final weeks
Sharon Osbourne refers to her English home as “heaven” in a new film about her life with late husband Ozzy and poignantly says: “As long as he is with me I am alright.”
The couple planned to move back to the UK after Ozzy played a farewell gig in the Summer for Black Sabbath fans at Villa Park. But sadly just days later he died and Sharon, 72, has subsequently buried her beloved Ozzy in the grounds of their heavenly home and she has been living life solo instead.
A new BBC documentary Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home which airs tomorrow night(Thursday) is all about their plan to relocate to the UK in 2025. Speaking shortly before they returned to UK, Ozzy said: “We are so used to running after the kids we don’t know what it is like to be with ourselves and to be with each other. I can’t wait until I am there.”
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Sharon then added: “It is Ozzy’s decision whether he wants to spend the rest of his life there or here. Home is where both of us are. As long as he is with me I am alright.”
The pair are then shown in the grounds of their Buckinghamshire home enjoying the wildlife and the lake this Summer. Sharon tells Ozzy she wants to get more deer, whilst Ozzy makes plans to set up his fishing rod in the lake one day. But sadly that day never came.
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.
Sharon is shown back in Buckinghamshire, before Ozzy’s death and she says on returning home: “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.”
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. A second documentary about Ozzy and Sharon will also air next week on Paramount+ which is a look back over his solo career and his final ever gig, with all of the family interviewed including their three children.
Perhaps aware of his own mortality, Ozzy tells the cameras: “If my life is coming to an end I really can’t complain. I’ve had a great life.”
Wife Sharon adds: “He had a brilliant career and it ended in a brilliant way.”
Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy revealed in 2020 he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and he paused touring in 2023 after extensive spinal surgery.
He had a fall at home in 2019 which aggravated injuries from a near-fatal quad bike crash in 2003.
* Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, Thursday 2 October, 9pm, BBC One & iPlayer.
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