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BBC Airs Intimate Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Film as Paramount+ Feature Nears

The BBC’s one-hour special draws on three years of intimate footage to explain his move back to Britain.

Overview

  • Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home premiered on BBC One and iPlayer on October 2 after being retooled from a planned series and delayed from August at the family’s request.
  • The documentary includes conversations recorded days after the July 5 Villa Park farewell where Ozzy says he is retiring from public life and looks forward to quiet time with Sharon.
  • Ozzy reflects that performing seated for nine songs at the final show was “torture,” yet he calls the concert a fitting way to sign off.
  • Viewers reacted with strong emotion to the film’s portrayal of his health struggles and candid moments about mortality and leaving the United States.
  • Official records report he died at home on July 22, aged 76, with causes listed as out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s with autonomic dysfunction; he was privately buried at the family’s Buckinghamshire estate, and he had previously said he did not want to be buried in America.