Earlier this year, it was announced that the Osbourne family would be returning to reality television with a 10-part series of 30 minute episodes for the BBC called “Home To Roost.”
The show will document Ozzy and Sharon’s move back to Britain alongside daughter Kelly and son Jack’s efforts to support them as the family re-starts life in rural Buckinghamshire.
Now, however, Ozzy has expressed his reservations with the show to The Mirror and has revealed that he’s “deeply nervous” about the project.
“I don’t know how the Kardashians have done it for so long – it sent us crazy at the end,” Ozzy told The Mirror of the reality TV experience, citing the long-running success of the multitude of shows centered around the members of the Kardashian family. “I am not sorry I did it, but after three or four years I said, ‘Do you know what, we’re going to lose somebody because it is getting too crazy.'”
“There is rock and roll fame, which is pretty intense, but that Osbourne level was just unbelievable. The kids paid for it. They all ended up doing drugs. Jack got clean and sober on that show, Kelly messed up on that show, I was messed up and Sharon got cancer,” the singer recalled.
More than 20 years ago, the Osbourne family starred in the iconic reality TV show, “The Osbournes.” The hit show ran from 2002 to 2005 and followed the lives of Ozzy, his wife Sharon and their kids, Kelly and Jack. The series spawned a number of copycat shows including A&E’s “Gene Simmons Family Jewels,” “A&E’s “Growing Up Twisted” with Dee Snider, and also “Hogan Knows Best,” which featured wrestling icon Hulk Hogan and his family.
“Rejoining the Osbournes as they return to the U.K. is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” reads a statement from “Home To Roost” creative directors Ben Wicks and Colin Barr. “Twenty years ago, they shaped television for all of us — now they’re coming home at a different stage in their lives but with the promise of the same laughter, love and tears. We can’t wait to work with them and to share it with BBC One viewers in 2023.”
