Osbourne and his wife Sharon are returning to their Buckinghamshire residence after spending more than 20 years in Los Angeles, the Black Sabbath singer told the Observer in a wide-ranging interview. Osbourne’s family life in California was documented on the MTV reality series “The Osbournes” in the early 2000s.
Gun violence in the US was part of what convinced him to return to the UK full-time, he told the Observer.
“I’m sick of people being killed every day,” he said of US gun violence. “God knows how many people have been gunned down in school shootings. And there was this mass shooting in Vegas at that concert…it’s f*****g crazy.”
He also noted that he did not want to die in the United States. “I’m English. I want to be back.”
There were more than 440 mass shootings in the United States in 2022, according to Gun Violence Archive, which updated its data on Monday. The Las Vegas mass shooting that Osbourne is referring to happened in 2017 and killed 58 people, and it remains the deadliest mass shooting in US history.
Sharon Osbourne said ‘America has changed so drastically’ and said there was ‘nothing united about it’. She waded into contentious debates last year, when she defended her friend Piers Morgan during an argument with Sheri Underwood on an episode of their daytime series ‘The Talk’, and she later quit the show after that former colleagues have accused her of using racist and homophobic language. .
Ozzy Osbourne gave a different reason for wanting to leave for the Mirror earlier this year: In March, the British tabloid reported that Osbourne had said “the tax is getting too high” and that although he missed Los Angeles, he didn’t didn’t want to continue paying current taxes to stay in the United States.
The Osbournes will return to the UK in February, the Observer reported, where Osbourne said he would continue making music. His new solo album, which he recorded while suffering from several chronic health conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, will be released next month.