Would Ozzy Osbourne agree to perform in a wheelchair? Sharon responds

The health of Ozzy Osbourne It’s been a real problem in recent years. Diagnosed with Parkinson’sthe vocalist also suffers from chronic back problems and recently had to have a blood clot removed from his legs.

Still, he dreams of returning to the stage. His last performance took place at the end of 2018 and subsequent commitments were all canceled after he realized that he really couldn’t honor them. A retirement from touring was announced, but the artist soon backtracked. Confirmed a show at the festival PowerTrip only to end up canceling months later.

Rumors began to emerge that Madman would resume his activities sitting in a wheelchair. However, his wife and businesswoman, Sharon Osbourneassured that this will not happen.

In a statement to the podcast The Osbournes(via website Igor Miranda), Sharon and the couple’s daughter, Kelly, reflected on the singer’s current condition. Kelly, for example, he revealed that talking about canceling the festival PowerTrip It is a “prohibited subject” in the home.

“We can’t talk about it at home because it’s devastating to see that all he wants is just one more show.”

The upset extends to the fact that Ozzy simply not being able to share the stage with his longtime friends who will also perform at the event. Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Tool and Guns N’ Roses were confirmed, in addition to the Judas Priest, who replaced the artist. Sharon highlighted:

“Ozzy you want to be at that festival with all your friends. It’s heartbreaking for him to see everyone moving on and he’s just been left behind.”

Stand or nothing done

The reflection of Kelly Osbourne extended to a possible format: Ozzy could perform in a wheelchair. After all, according to her, the main thing — which is the voice — is still going well.

“He could do it now if he sat in a chair. Because the voice is there, there is nothing wrong with the voice.”

However, when considering this hypothesis, Sharon interrupted her:

“But he’s against that idea.”

The couple’s daughter then concluded:

“He said if he can’t give the fans what they paid to see, he won’t do it.”

Nonstop

This does not mean, however, that Ozzy Osbourne be completely still. He has released two albums in recent years — Ordinary Man (2020) and Patient Number 9 (2022) —, participated in the aforementioned podcast The Osbournes and is yet to record a new reality show with the family, Home to Roast.

The program portrays the return of Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack (the couple’s other son) to the United Kingdom after decades of living in the United States. Financial issues, such as the rise in taxes in the United States, and personal issues, such as the artist’s desire to spend his final years in his country of origin, motivated the return — which will be televised through the broadcaster BBC.

This has left the self-proclaimed Prince of Darkness “deeply nervous”, as he himself admitted in a statement on his program on the pay radio system SiriusXM (via Mirror). The artist recalled that the television version of The Osbournes He made his family “crazy”, hence the fear. Today, at 74 years old and with a series of health problems that prevent him from doing shows and even walking, he certainly would not be able to deal with situations like those experienced at the beginning of the 21st century. “I don’t know how people Kardashians they did it for so long – it drove us crazy in the end. I don’t regret doing it, but after three or four years I said, ‘you know what… we’re going to end up losing someone because this is getting too crazy’.”

Osbourne admitted that her own children paid the price for overexposure. He also said that the level of fame acquired by the program was much greater than that of life as a rock star.

“There is rock and roll fame, which is quite intense, but that level of the program was simply unbelievable. The children paid for this. They all ended up using drugs. Jack he remained sober during the program, Kelly and I get complicated and Sharon He still had cancer.”

Faced with so many negative points, the question that does not want to be silenced arises: why Ozzy and your family agreed to undergo this again? The singer responded bluntly: it was a way of helping his wife, Sharonto resume his TV career after problems in recent years.

Still during The Osbournes,Sharon joined as a judge on the talent show The X Factor. Later, he also became involved with the America’s Got Talent. He had his own programs in the talk show format. The last one was The Talkwith which she remained until 2021.

Your departure from The Talk was full of controversies. When defending his journalist friend Piers Morgan after he made racist statements about Meghan Markle, prince’s wife Harry, Sharon got involved in an on-air argument with fellow presenter Sheryl Underwood. In the midst of this, accusations arose that the wife of Ozzy would have a racist and homophobic stance behind the scenes of the television attraction, including against his colleagues.

Home to Roost There is no specific release date yet, but it should arrive in 2023 at BBC One. There will be 10 episodes in total.