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“The Osbournes” reality show has lost a member of the family. Sharon Osbourne tells “Us Weekly” in its July 28 issue that her black Chihuahua, Lulu, was recently killed by coyotes that jumped a low fence at her home. “It’s so heartbreaking,” she says. Osbourne tells the magazine the Osbournes’ Pomeranian, Pipi, was attacked earlier this month, but was saved by her husband, Ozzy. “Ozzy heard the screams and fought and got Pip out of the coyote’s mouth,” she says. “The Osbournes” will return for 20 new episodes on MTV early next year. Filming at the family’s Beverly Hills mansion… Read more »

What’s that old saying – behind every great man there is an even greater woman? Well, that certainly seems to be the case with legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his manager/wife Sharon. Despite her aging husband’s drug addiction, hip problems and overall incoherence, Sharon Osbourne has kept the Ozzman’s feet firmly planted in the heart of the entertainment world. Aside from managing his hectic touring schedule, Sharon also finagled a reality-TV deal with MTV, allowing cameras to capture all the cursing, craziness, and, well, more cursing that fills the Osbourne home on a daily basis. Of course, the season is… Read more »

The Osbournes are looking for a new home. No, rock’s first family aren’t packing up and moving out of their Beverly Hills abode. It’s the search for a new label home for Kelly and Ozzy that has the clan pounding the pavement. Both father and daughter are leaving Sony Music, according to an Osbournes spokesperson. Although Kelly has only been with Sony subsidiary Epic since releasing her debut, Shut Up!, in late November, Ozzy has had a home at Sony Music for decades, since first going solo in 1980 with Blizzard of Ozz, released by the now defunct Jet imprint.… Read more »

Jack Osbourne got carried away with drugs and alcohol, he told People in his first interview since checking into rehab April 23. “I got caught up in my new lifestyle,” he said on his fourth day of treatment. “Once I realized this, I voluntarily checked myself into a detox facility for my own health and well-being.” Jack took a break from partying in January after admitting to his mother he was overindulging in marijuana and alcohol, according to the magazine, but he relapsed later while spending time in his parents’ Malibu home. The 17-year-old’s admission to Las Encinas Hospital in… Read more »

Jack Osbourne, the 17-year-old son of heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne, has checked into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic, according to magazine reports. “I got caught up in my new lifestyle and got carried away with drugs and alcohol,” Osbourne told People magazine, which reported he entered Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena on April 23. “Once I realized this, I voluntarily checked myself into a detox facility for my own health and well-being.” A publicist for the Osbourne family did not immediately return calls seeking comment Tuesday. Kelly Osbourne, Jack’s 18-year-old sister, told Us Weekly magazine that her brother… Read more »

The woman who locked horns with Sharon Osbourne in a Los Angeles restaurant last week has fired back with her own version of how the scrap happened. Renee Tab, a talent agent whose war of words with the metal matriarch escalated to violence at the Japanese restaurant Koi, claims Osbourne spat on and kicked her and made threatening and ethnic remarks. Osbourne “started screaming racial slurs,” Tab’s lawyer, Najila Brent, told New York’s Daily News. She called the Iranian-born Tab a “Persian carpet cleaner” and threatened to “send someone to slash [her] face and break [her] leg,” according to the… Read more »

Headbangers of the world will unite once again this summer at Ozzfest, the annual road show of hard rock bands organized by America’s first couple of reality TV, the Osbournes. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne and son Jack opened their Beverly Hills house to journalists on Tuesday to announce the lineup for the eighth annual outing of Ozzfest. Dressed in his best pair of tracksuit pants and a black T-shirt, a typically befuddled Ozzy slurred his way through the news conference while a svelte Sharon, as usual, took charge of proceedings, firing off insults at her guests and husband. Ozzy Osbourne,… Read more »

Sharon, Ozzy, and Jack Osbourne are set to open their house in Los Angeles to journalists for the announcement of OzzFest 2003 on Tuesday (February 18). Media will check in at a Los Angeles-area hotel and be bussed to the house. At 12:30 p.m. there will be lunch followed by a 1:15 press conference. Members of confirmed bands from the tour will also be on hand. Unconfirmed reports have Korn, Disturbed, Chevelle, and Stereomud on the bill.

Sheryl Crow, an activist for recording artists’ rights, brought her own message against a possible war with Iraq to Monday night’s American Music Awards. Crow accepted her award for pop-rock female artist wearing a white T-shirt emblazoned with the message “war is not the answer” in black sequins. She had the V-neck shirt specially made. “I just think there’s a really vital, sweeping peace movement out there that’s not getting covered in the press, so I just kind of try to do my part,” she said backstage. “I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions… Read more »

Should old acquaintances be forgot and never brought to mind? Not if you’re the Osbournes. Sharon and Ozzy aren’t about to forgive and forget a woman who allegedly crashed their New Year’s Eve party and walked out with a $15,000 diamond necklace she obtained by winning a raffle illegally. The Osbourne camp issued a statement to the press Friday evening to draw attention to the incident, and to talent agency ICM, where the presumed perpetrator is employed. The party, which doubled as a ceremony to renew their 20-year-old marriage vows, was held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The necklace was… Read more »