In what is believed to be the last publicly shared video of Ozzy Osbourne, his daughter Kelly Osbourne has offered the world a poignant and deeply personal final glimpse of the man behind the myth. The brief, cheerful clip, posted just two days before his death at age 76, captures the quiet family man beloved by his relatives, a sentiment echoed in a new tribute from his sisters who remember him not as the “Prince of Darkness,” but simply as “our John.”
The video, shared on Kelly‘s Instagram Stories on Sunday, July 20, shows a peaceful morning scene at the Osbourne family’s home in Buckinghamshire. In the clip, Ozzy is seen sitting at the dining table with his headphones on, looking at his iPad, while his 2-year-old grandson, Sidney, sits nearby. Kelly playfully prompts her father, “Dada, say good morning!” to which Ozzy looks up and replies with a warm, enthusiastic “Good morning!”
The clip provides a touching window into a bond that Kelly recently described as incredibly close. “Oh my God, they’re best friends,” she told about her father and her son. “Favorite time of the day is nighttime because Sidney leaves me and gets in bed with my mom and dad… and they have cartoon time together and it is the sweetest thing ever.”
The image of the happy grandfather at breakfast stands in stark contrast to the news that would arrive just 48 hours later, but it perfectly aligns with how his closest family remembers him. In an interview with The Mirror, Ozzy‘s sisters, Jean Powell and Gillian Hemming, reflected on seeing him at his final concert on July 5.
While they acknowledged his physical frailty—”It was upsetting because he could not stand up straight”—they emphasized that his spirit was undiminished. “He was still our John, still cracking the jokes,” Jean said. She added that his death, though not entirely unexpected given his health battles, “still came as a shock. He still had plans and things he wanted to do.”
As millions of fans around the world mourn the loss of a music icon, his sisters shared their own perspective on the global outpouring of grief. “To us, he was our brother, not a celebrity,” Jean reflected. “He was just our John.”
While the world remembers the rock legend who pioneered a genre, these final, intimate glimpses shared by his family paint a touching portrait of the beloved husband, father, grandfather, and brother they knew and loved.
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