Jack, the second-youngest of Sharon Osbourne<\/a> and the late Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>‘s children<\/a>, currently stars on the British reality series I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!. During the show’s Friday, Nov. 28, Jack, 40, discussed some of his memories of his grandfather Arden, whom his mother Sharon, 73, was estranged from for decades after a conflict in the family over management of Ozzy’s music\u00a0career.<\/p>\n When fellow cast member Kelly Brook asked Jack whether rumors that Arden \u2014 a music manager who managed Osbourne’s band Black Sabbath until he left the group \u2014 used to physically accost people, Jack said, “He pulled guns on people, everything.”<\/p>\n According to Jack, Arden “sent hitmen” after his parents after Sharon took control of managing Ozzy’s solo career following his break from Black Sabbath in the late 1970s. “Mobsters would shop up with guns at gigs,” he recalled.<\/p>\n Jack said that Sharon “actually told me [Arden] was dead” until he was nearly 18 years old due to her estrangement from her own father.<\/p>\n ITV<\/p>\n Jack Osbourne on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here<\/p>\n According to a 2006 interview Sharon conducted with The Guardian<\/a>, she finally introduced Jack and her younger daughter Kelly Osbourne<\/a> to Arden when they bumped into him in Los Angeles and got into an argument. Arden died at age 81 in 2007; as the BBC<\/a> reported at the time, he and Sharon reconciled in 2002 after he developed Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n Per The Guardian, Sharon and Ozzy’s older daughter Aimee did not want to meet Arden because he was already suffering from Alzheimer’s and did not want to grow attached to someone who would not live much longer.<\/p>\n![\"ITV](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2ab17b1093556f7de2853b9658904e5a.jpeg\"\/)
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