Fans of the Osbournes, who are waiting to see the family settling back into village life in Buckinghamshire in the BBC ten-part docu-series Home To Roost, are going to have to be patient.
Last August, the BBC promised a ‘funny, moving and honest insight’ into their new lives in the UK.
Ozzy and his music manager wife Sharon were thought to be relocating to their 120-year-old Grade II listed Buckinghamshire pile Welders House.
The trouble is, nine months on, they haven’t upped sticks.
Sources close to Ozzy and Sharon blame the ‘terrible’ property market in Los Angeles, and say they are waiting for renovations at their new home, so Ozzy can have live-in care for his Parkinson’s.
Still waiting: The Osbournes’ BBC series Home To Roost, which will see the family settling back into village life in Buckinghamshire is yet to start filming, nine months after it was announced (L-R: Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon Osbourne pictured in 2018)
Moving on: Ozzy and his wife Sharon were thought to be relocating to their 120-year-old Grade II listed pile Welders House but, nine months on, they haven’t upped sticks (L-R daughter Kelly Osbourne with father Ozzy and mother Sharon in 2020)
They have also decided they aren’t ready to give up a base in California for good, and want to keep a home of some sort in the city. So has the BBC shot any film yet? Not much, comes the reply.
It comes after Ozzy appeared to get cold feet in November last year, just weeks away from when the cameras were due to start rolling.
He said in a magazine interview: ‘To be honest with you, if I had my way, I’d stay in America. I’m American now… to be honest with you, I don’t want to go back. F*** that.’
The rock icon, who hails from Birmingham, England, has lived in California for more than 25 years.
One reason to come back would be to support wife Sharon who left CBS show The Talk after defending broadcaster Piers Morgan during controversy following the Oprah interview with Prince Harry and Meghan.
She has since started working for UK-based broadcaster Talk TV.
Last year Ozzy announced he plans to move back to the UK with his wife Sharon because he ‘doesn’t want to die in crazy America’.
The singer claimed ‘everything’s f****** ridiculous’ Stateside and highlighted the country’s history of school shootings.
They’re back! BBC bosses confirmed The Osbourne’s return to reality TV in September last year, as the family are set to document their ‘new life back in the UK’ (clockwise L-R: Ozzy and Sharon with daughter Kelly and son Jack in 2002)
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’
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.’
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.’
Clare Sillery, BBC’s Head of Documentaries told MailOnline of the Osbournes’ new show: ‘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.’
The Osbournes reality show on MTV was a huge hit from 2002 to 2005 and showed Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack — daughter Aimee declined to take part — effing and blinding through life.
It first aired on MTV in March 2002 as it followed the eccentric home life of Black Sabbath singer Ozzy and his family.
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.
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.
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