Ozzy Osbourne has mentioned that he’s reconsidering he and his spouse Sharon’s transfer to the UK from Los Angeles, saying he’d reasonably “stay in America”.
The couple, who’ve lived in LA for over 25 years, plan to settle into a brand new life in Buckinghamshire early subsequent 12 months. Ozzy and Sharon will doc their return to England for a brand new actuality TV sequence on the BBC.
Over the summer time, the previous Black Sabbath frontman defined that the regarding quantity of mass shootings within the US was a motive behind the deliberate transfer. “Everything’s fucking ridiculous here,” he mentioned. “I’m fed up with people getting killed every day.”
The singer continued: “I don’t want to die in America. I don’t want to be buried in fucking Forest Lawn [a famous celebrity cemetery in Los Angeles]. I’m English. I want to be back… It’s time for me to come home.”
The choice additionally got here amid a sequence of ongoing well being issues for Ozzy. Earlier this 12 months, Sharon landed a brand new function presenting her personal present, The Talk, on the London-based channel TalkTV.
During a brand new interview with Consequence, the Prince Of Darkness revealed that he’d had a change of coronary heart about shifting again to the UK completely. “To be honest with you, if I had my way, I’d stay in America,” he advised the outlet. “I’m American now.”
Ozzy went on to say that Sharon’s racism row and subsequent exit from CBS’s The Talk final 12 months had led to the pair feeling unsafe within the US.
“When my wife got called a racist on [The Talk], she is absolutely not a racist,” he mentioned. “Her pal is Piers Morgan [who made controversial comments about Meghan Markle]. She didn’t say, ‘I agree with him’. She simply revered his skill to have freedom of speech.
“That’s all that she said. And she got a lot of flak from that, so we actually had to have fucking armed guards and all that.”
Sharon, in the meantime, advised Consequence that LA was “heaven” when she first moved there, however reiterated that the couple “don’t feel safe here” anymore.
“It’s not exciting anymore. It hasn’t gone sideways, it’s gone down,” she mentioned. “It’s not a fun place to live. It’s dangerous here. Every big city’s got crime, but I don’t feel safe here. Neither does Ozzy.”
However, her husband stood by his preliminary remark: “To be honest with you, I don’t want to go back [to the UK]. Fuck that.”
Ozzy Osbourne launched his thirteenth studio solo album, ‘Patient Number 9’, again in September. He later expressed his willpower to maintain touring, regardless of his quite a few well being setbacks.