While the world mourns the loss of legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, fans are being reminded of some of his most iconic TV moments.
As well as being one of the world's most celebrated rockstars, the 76-year-old, who tragically passed away on 22 July, also appeared at the forefront of reality TV when his family became the centre of their own show.
The Osbournes, which followed the lives of Ozzy, his wife Sharon Osbourne and their children Kelly and Jack, launched on MTV in March 2002 and quickly became one of the channel's most viewed shows. The couple's eldest daughter, Aimee Osbourne, chose to move out and not appear on the controversial show.
Since the Osbourne family announced Ozzy's death, fans have uncovered a number of iconic clips from the programme, proving that The Osbournes is one of the best reality shows of all time.
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Warning, this clip contains *very* explicit language:
In one fan favourite clip, Ozzy can be seen trying to work out how to change the TV channel using a fancy high-tech device that is linked to a number of different appliances around the house.
"What the f**k am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel," Ozzy raged. "What the f**k is that? What the f**king f**k stupid thing."
Calling on his son for help, the father-of-six shouted: "Jaaaack, can you get this f**king thi- this television to work? Why can't I get a normal f**king TV man?"
In a piece to camera, the rockstar expressed his dismay at not being able to just use a normal remote to change the channel of the television.
"I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, computer knowledge to turn the f**king TV on and off," he complained.
"I press this one button and the shower starts going off. I'm like, what's this? Where am I, man? F**king space age s**t. And the nightmare continues."
After the clip was shared to X, fans rushed to hail the iconic programme as the best of the best when it comes to reality television.
"It's pinnacle reality show. None better," one fan wrote, while another added: "Loved The Osbournes…reality at its finest…they are the real deal! Ozzy is so funny what a sense of humour this rock legend had!"
You've got to admit, it was absolute TV gold and even more than 20 years later, the man who created the programme has hailed the 'wonderful, serendipitous chaos' that the Osbourne family brought to the show.
The Osbournes executive producer Van Toffler has revealed how the reality show first came about after a camera crew descended into their home to shoot for the iconic MTV show Cribs, which showed off celebrity mansions.
He told Variety: "We were deep in the throes of reality television in the early 2000s but I don’t think we’d ever had someone over 50 years old featured on any show on MTV in its history.
"We were looking to launch Cribs, and we shot a bit with the Osbournes, and we all kind of looked at each other and just felt there is some wonderful, serendipitous chaos and insanity in this house that people would eat up."
This particular clip shows one fundamental part of The Osbournes, which was just how much swearing was involved, which became an added challenge for producers trying to bleep out all the expletives.
“It was so wrong, but unlike anything else that was on TV," Toffler continued.
"First of all, that family — with the king of metal featured, and all the things he was allegedly accused of doing — but also the language.
"We had to bleep so much of the dialogue. That became such an integral part of it, the way we bleeped it, how often we bleeped it, and we weren’t making it up."
Topics: Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, MTV, TV and Film
Emma Rosemurgey