BBC bosses CONFIRM the rock ‘n’ roll family’s RETURN to reality TV

It’s been two decades since the iconic reality show featuring the rock ‘n’ roll family hit our TV screens. 

And BBC bosses have confirmed The Osbourne’s return to reality TV on Thursday, as the family are set to document their ‘new life back in the UK’ with a ‘funny, moving and honest’ new series.

Ozzy Osbourne, 73, announced his plans to move back to the UK with his wife Sharon, 69, earlier this week because he ‘doesn’t want to die in crazy America’. 

The family will be relocating to their 120-year-old Grade II listed Buckinghamshire pile Welders House after 25 years in Beverly Hills. 

Clare Sillery, Head of Documentaries told MailOnline: ‘Twenty years ago the Osbournes left Britain for a life in LA. Now they are coming ‘home to roost’, back to their family home, pretty much as they left it all those years ago. 

‘In this new series our audience will be able to follow the family as they settle back into their new life in a Buckinghamshire village….it promises to be a funny, moving and honest insight into their new life back in the UK.’

Exciting! Clare Sillery, Head of Documentaries told MailOnline: ‘In this new series our audience will be able to follow the family as they settle back into their new life in Buckinghamshire’

Coming soon: She added: ‘It promises to be a funny, moving and honest insight into their new life back in the UK’ (Ozzy, Kelly, Aimee, Sharon and Jack on set in 2002)

The reality TV show first aired on MTV in March 2002 as it followed the eccentric home life of Black Sabbath singer Ozzy and his family.  

Starring Sharon, Kelly and Jack, the couples oldest daughter Aimee, declined to take part as she criticised her parents antics. 

The first show of its kind, it also covered major events throughout the family’s lives such as Sharon battle with cancer, Ozzy’s near death accident and when Kelly’s friend Robert came to live with them after his mother’s death.  

Iconic: The reality TV show first aired on MTV in March 2002 as it followed the eccentric home life of Black Sabbath singer Ozzy and his family (pictured in 2015)

The series became known for its wild events as Ozzy’s calling of ‘Sharon!’ became a household catchphrase and his confusion over a ringing telephone became iconic. 

Going on to film for a total of four season and 52 episodes, the programme scooped the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2002. 

Their move to the UK comes as Ozzy claimed ‘everything’s f****** ridiculous’ Stateside and highlighted the country’s history of school shootings. 

Rock n roll! The series became known for its wild events as Ozzy’s calling of ‘Sharon!’ became a household catchphrase and his confusion over a ringing telephone became iconic

History: It covered major events throughout the family’s lives such as Sharon battle with cancer, Ozzy’s accident and when Kelly’s friend Robert came to live with them

Blast from the past: Going on to film for a total of four season and 52 episodes, the programme scooped the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2002

He told The Observer: ‘I’m fed up with people getting killed every day. God knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Vegas at that concert… It’s f*****g crazy.’

Despite California’s Forest Lawn cemetery being the favoured burial ground by celebrities such as Paul Walker, Brittany Murphy and Bette Davis, Ozzy made it crystal clear that he doesn’t want to follow suit.

He continued: ‘I’m English. I want to be back. But, saying that, if my wife said we’ve got to go and live in Timbuktu, I’ll go. But, no, it’s just time for me to come home.’ 

Coming home! Their move to the UK comes as Ozzy claimed ‘everything’s f****** ridiculous’ Stateside and highlighted the country’s history of school shootings (pictured in 2020)