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Tue 4 August 2026 10:40, UK
Sharon Osbourne has shared a number of updates in regards to future projects celebrating her late husband Ozzy Osbourne.
On July 22nd, it marked a year since Ozzy tragically departed the world aged 78 after suffering a cardiac arrest at their family home in Buckinghamshire, England.
Over the past 12 months, Sharon has got the wheels in motion on a variety of different ways to ensure his legacy lives on, including the controversial plan to bring him back to life as an AI avatar.
Speaking to Metal Hammer, she explained that it has long been under discussion and again refuted claims it has been cooked up for financial reasons, insisting, “I’ve seen such shit online about it being a ‘money grab’. Why would I need to do that? It’s not as if I’m using Ozzy to sell fucking weedkiller or beer. Ozzy loved the idea. We’ve been talking about it for 10 years.”
Defending her decision, the music manager said, “Ozzy has this great body of work that took a lifetime to do – why shouldn’t he still be seen? Why should we have to watch the same videos over and over again, when there’s technology available that means we don’t have to?”
She also told fans that they can ignore it if they please, adding, “If you don’t like it, don’t go see it. I’m not at people’s houses with a fucking gun, going, ‘Give me your money!’”
Additionally, after previously confirming in March that OzzFest is planned to return in 2027, she has now revealed, “It’s going to be at Villa Park again. Whether it’ll be two nights [in Birmingham], that’s up for the fans to tell me.”
Villa Park in Birmingham, a stone’s throw from where Ozzy was raised, also staged his farewell concert, Back to the Beginning, just three weeks before his death.
Furthermore, Sharon also gave an update on the long-awaited biopic on Ozzy’s life, which was in the works for many years while he was still alive.
She frankly admitted of the arduous process, “We’re now on our second writer because we had somebody else write three different drafts, and we felt that it wasn’t Ozzy’s voice. We feel that this new guy has got Ozzy’s voice, and we’re ready to send [the script] out to directors.”
Comparing the film industry with the music business, Sharon added, “When I used to see people get up at the Oscars and say, ‘I’ve been working on this movie for 20 years, and we finally got it made!’ I’d think, ‘Bullshit.’ But it’s true. It’s not like making a record, believe you me. Working with the writers and the directors is a whole fucking lifetime commitment to get a movie done.”
It comes after her son, Jack Osbourne, admitted in May that the film won’t see the light of day until at least 2028, but confirmed, “This movie will absolutely happen.”
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