Ozzy Osbourne has shut down hoaxes claiming his dying on The Osbournes podcast, stating: “I’m not going any-fucking-where”.
In direction of the top of the boxing day (December 26) ‘New Yr’s particular’ episode of The Osbournes, the Prince of Darkness took a second to handle unverified claims that he had died. “The factor on YouTube, it’s received ‘Celebrities Who Died Immediately’, and there’s an image of me,” he mentioned, declaring the phenomenon.
With a reference to Monty Python, he humorously clarified: “I’m not lifeless! I’m not likely lifeless, just a bit flesh wound.” Later, his spouse Sharon Osbourne poured in on the problem, calling the retailers which have unfold this misinformation “sick fuckers”.
Wrapping up on the subject, the Osbournes’ son Jack praised followers who’ve referred to as out such publications by commenting on their inaccurate stories, earlier than Ozzy seems into the digicam and says: “I’m not lifeless, I’m not going any-fucking-where. And I’m gonna go and do some extra gigs earlier than I’m completed, anyway.”
Watch Ozzy Osbourne touch upon false claims of his dying on The Osbournes podcast under:
Not too long ago, the rock veteran has been going forwards and backwards between expressing his want to return to touring, and feeling not ready to take action. In February, Osbourne cancelled all his upcoming European and UK tour dates and introduced his retirement from touring, writing in a press release that that his physique was “nonetheless bodily weak” following intensive therapy for his backbone harm, which he suffered after a fall in 2019. He later clarified that he would tour once more if docs allowed him to.
In September, Osbourne declared that he had undergone his “remaining” surgical procedure, stating that he “[couldn’t] do it anymore”. In an interview later that month, he revealed his intentions to document yet one more album and hit the street for a tour, with recording for the album slated to happen early subsequent yr.
Nonetheless, his son Jack acknowledged in a November interview that Ozzy “won’t ever tour once more”, although he was nonetheless keen to carry out one-off live shows or festivals. This was later verified by Ozzy himself, when he admitted in a separate interview that he may need to “settle for the very fact” that he would possibly by no means get the prospect to tour once more. “I’m not going to stand up there and do a half-hearted Ozzy in search of sympathy,” the previous Black Sabbath frontman acknowledged. “What’s the fucking level in that?”
Osbourne’s fall in 2019 had dislodged a number of metallic rods which had been put in his physique after a quad bike crash in 2003, warranting the intensive surgical procedures since. In 2020, he was additionally identified with Parkinson’s illness. The final time he carried out a full live performance was in 2018, on the Ozzfest New Yr’s Eve bash in California.