Jack Osbourne made admission about rarely seen older sister who didn’t appear in TV show
Jack Osbourne revealed that he is 'not close at all' with his rarely seen older sister Aimee, who prefers to stay out of the spotlight.
The 39-year-old son of late Black Sabbath legend Ozzy and TV star Sharon opened up about their complicated family dynamic in the days before his dad's death.
Fans got an idea of what growing up in the Osbourne household was like thanks to the famous brood's hit reality show, The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 to 2005.
But what we didn't see is how Jack and his sister Kelly, 40, gelled with their sibling Aimee - as she refused to participate in the MTV series.
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The actress and singer, 41, instead decided to move out of the family home so she could avoid the camera crews, which ultimately deepened the divide between her and her loved ones.
Explaining her reasoning behind why she flew the nest at the age of 16, Aimee previously told The Independent: "Back then, I still felt I was trying to figure out who I was in the chaos of family life, so why on Earth would I want that portrayed on television?
"I wanted to protect myself, my parents, my siblings, too. They were very young, very impressionable."
Although Ozzy's nearest and dearest put on a united front at his funeral last week, his son Jack recently revealed that his rift with Aimee is still very much ongoing all these years later.
During an appearance on Katie Maloney and Dayna Kathan's Disrespectfully podcast, which dropped on 16 July - six days before his rocker dad died 'surrounded by love' - he opened up about their strained relationship.
"We’re not close at all," he told the hosts. "We don’t have a great relationship. She’ll be the first to tell you that. So, it’s no secret."
Discussing why he believes Aimee didn't want to appear on The Osbournes, reality TV star Jack said: "Back then she really wanted to be a musician and the kind of musician she wanted to be was like a Fiona Apple, Mazzy Star.
"Like this kind of obscure, mysterious, moody [music artist]. And she deemed doing a show on MTV as low-hanging fruit. She was like, 'I'm not going to be seen riding coat-tails', kind of thing. That's how she perceived it.
"Once the show was hugely successful, I think she was like, ‘I can’t now come on, because I don’t want to be seen even more as jumping on the bandwagon'.
"So she just dug her heels in and wanted to be relatively private and obscure."
Jack said he has 'never had the conversation' with his estranged older sister about whether she regrets her decision, adding: "I've never asked her outright, 'Do you regret it?'
"I think there must be a level of like, 'Hey, my life would have probably been different than what it is if I'd done that,' so I don't know...I think I would feel like I would have regretted it."
Jack is not the only Osbourne to address the Aimee-sized elephant in the room, as Kelly previously revealed why she doesn't get along with her sister on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast in 2021.
Explaining they 'don't talk', Kelly said: "We’re just really different. She doesn’t understand me, and I don’t understand her."
But Sharon previously revealed she was devastated when Aimee moved out as a teenager, telling The Talk in 2018: "She felt too that she didn't want to grow up on camera. She hated the idea - it was appalling to her.
"And so she left at 16 and I regret every day that she did. It broke my heart when she moved."
However, the three Osbourne siblings are set to reunite on screen later this year for the Paramount+ series Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now, which delves into their late dad's life.
Ozzy was also the father to three other children - Jessica, Louis and Elliot - from his first marriage.
Topics: Celebrity, Celebrity News, Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, Podcast
Olivia Burke