John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, actor and television personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which he adopted the nickname "The Prince of Darkness".
Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979 due to alcohol and drug problems, but he went on to have a successful solo career, releasing eleven studio albums, the first seven of which were all awarded multi-platinum certifications in the United States. Osbourne has since reunited with Black Sabbath on several occasions.
UPDATE, JAN. 4: Television host Sharon Osbourne is back in action after a brief hospitalization for an on-set medical emergency last month.
But she still doesn’t know what happened. The TV host, 70, returned to the U.K.’s The Talk on Tuesday. It was her first appearance since the Dec.
13 incident on the set of Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror in Santa Paula, Calif., when she fell ill. What happened? Sharon and her doctors are baffled. “I wish I could (tell you), but I can’t.
It was the weirdest thing. I was doing some filming and suddenly they tell me that I [passed out] for 20 minutes.” Ozzy Osbourne’s wife and manager underwent a battery of tests. “I did every test over two days and nobody knows why,” she said. UPDATE: Sharon Osbourne is out of the hospital, according to reports, and is home recovering after a medical emergency on Friday night.
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