After spending over 20 years in Los Angeles, Ozzy Osbourne made headlines in August 2022 when he announced that he and his wife, Sharon Osbourne, planned to return to the UK.
However, nearly two years later, the couple still hasn’t made the move across the Atlantic. They discussed this in a recent episode of The Osbournes Podcast, which was released on Tuesday, July 16.
Off The Record After more than 20 years in Los Angeles, Ozzy Osbourne made news in August 2022 when he revealed that he and his wife, Sharon Osbourne, intended to return to the UK.
But the couple hasn’t moved across the pond yet, almost two years later. They talked about this in a recent episode of The Osbournes Podcast, which aired on Tuesday, July 16.
“We’re trying to get on a flight,” said Ozzy, 75, in response to a listener’s question about the move.
Ozzy’s health has been delaying the trip, Sharon, 71, added. In a January podcast interview, the Black Sabbath singer disclosed that he had “seven surgeries in the past five years,” including his fourth spinal surgery in September 2023. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2003 and still consults specialists to manage its symptoms.
“It just seems that every time we’re set to go, something happens with Ozzy’s health,” Sharon said on Tuesday.
“We’ll get there,” Sharon added. “We really want to go back, and we’ll make it. Won’t we, Ozzy?”
“Yeah,” he replied, with Sharon giving him a boost. “We will.” Ozzy had previously said that the unstable political situation and gun violence in the United States were significant reasons for his desire to leave. “Everything’s f—— crazy there,” he told The Observer in an interview published on Aug. 28, 2022. “I’m sick of people getting killed every day.
God only knows how many have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting at the concert in Vegas… It’s f—— insane.” “I don’t want to die in America,” Ozzy added, referring to the well-known cemetery in Los Angeles. “I don’t want to be buried in f—— Forest Lawn.
I’m English. I want to go back. It’s just time for me to return home.” Sharon agreed, saying, “America has changed so much. It’s not the United States of America anymore. There’s nothing united about it. It’s a really strange place to live right now.” According to The Observer at the time, the couple, who are parents to Kelly Osbourne, 39; Jack Osbourne, 38; and Aimee Osbourne, 40, as well as Jessica and Louis, whom the Ozzy singer has with his first wife, Thelma Riley, had planned to return to the United Kingdom in February 2023.
The site also noted that they were renovating their Buckinghamshire home at the time to add a swimming pool and an Ozzy music studio. Ozzy has been giving regular health updates on The Osbournes Podcast. After decades of struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, he boasted in January about the benefits of sobriety, saying that a doctor’s visit showed that “my blood clots are gone” and “everything’s back to normal.”
But the emotional toll of his health problems has also affected the singer. When asked by a listener in Tuesday’s episode about “the one thing you’ve lost, misplaced or given up that you wish you could have again,” Ozzy answered, “My health.”
“When you lose your health, nothing else f—— matters,” he said.