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Topics: Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne, Celebrity, Music
Anish Vij
Topics: Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne, Celebrity, Music
Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimee made a rare public appearance at the rockstar's funeral yesterday (30 July).
It comes after fans were informed in an announcement last week (22 July) that heavy metal's 'Prince of Darkness' had passed away from Parkinson's disease, a progressive neurological condition.
Sharon Osbourne, his wife of 43 years, was at the emotional procession in Birmingham, joined by Ozzy’s son Jack, along with their daughters Aimee and Kelly.
The hearse carrying Ozzy's coffin passed his childhood home in Lodge Road, Aston, at about 12.45pm on its route into the city centre.
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Flowers were placed outside the terraced property, close to Villa Park, while the owners of the house put up a picture of Ozzy in the front bay window.
Amongst the family members, meanwhile, was Ozzy's daughter Aimee, who has kept herself out of the public eye.
Ozzy was a father to six children: Jessica and Louis with ex Thelma Riley, as well as Riley's son Elliot from a prior relationship, whom the rock star adopted. He and Sharon shared Aimee, Kelly and Jack.
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Jack and Kelly were in the public eye from a young age after starring in MTV's The Osbournes from 2002 to 2005 alongside their parents.
Aimee, however, didn't want to grow up on camera and decided to move out of the family home aged 16.
"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?" she told The Independent in 2020.
"I wanted to protect myself, my parents, my siblings, too. They were very young, very impressionable."
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Aimee, the eldest daughter at 41, honored her father with a bat-shaped brooch on her blazer.
The accessory was a quiet nod to one of the most infamous moments in Ozzy’s career: the 1982 on-stage incident where he bit the head off a bat, mistakenly thinking it was a rubber toy tossed by a fan.
“Somebody threw a bat. I just thought it was a rubber bat. And I picked it up and put it in my mouth. I bit into it,” Ozzy recalled in his 2010 memoir, I Am Ozzy.
The bat has since become an enduring symbol of his rock persona, and Aimee’s understated homage didn’t go unnoticed.
Her mum and brothers also included other touching references with their outfit choices.