Jack Osbourne names baby daughter Ozzy to honour late father

Jack Osbourne, the only son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, has honoured his late father by naming his baby daughter after him.Jack, 40, announced the birth of Ozzy Matilda Osbourne on social media alongside his wife, Aree, who he married in 2023. The newborn Ozzy was pictured lying next to a cuddly bat toy: another reference to his father, who famously bit the head off a real bat during a 1982 concert believing it was made of rubber.Osbourne’s father died in July 2025, 17 days after a farewell concert with his pioneering heavy metal group Black Sabbath.There have been high profile tributes paid to him during this year’s awards season. At the Grammy awards, a supergroup featuring Post Malone on vocals plus Andrew Watt, Chad Smith, Duff McKagan and Slash performed Black Sabbath’s War Pigs. Sharon, Jack and Kelly Osbourne were in the audience.Then at the Brit awards, Robbie Williams sang Osbourne’s solo hit No More Tears, backed by a band including Metallica’s Robert Trujillo and longtime Ozzy guitarist Zakk Wylde.Sharon and Kelly introduced the performance with a spoken tribute to Ozzy, with Sharon calling him “authentic, gifted, totally unpredictable, a wild man, a true artist … he was the most humble egomaniac you could ever meet”.Jack and Kelly first became famous on the reality TV show The Osbournes, a fly-on-the-wall series that followed their dysfunctional yet heartwarming family dynamic, with Ozzy frequently baffled by events unfolding around him.Kelly launched her own music career, earning three UK Top 10 singles including a No 1 duet with her father, reworking his earlier Black Sabbath ballad Changes.Jack continued in reality TV, presenting five series of the outdoor pursuit show Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie, and appearing with his father in three seasons of the travelogue Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour. In 2011 he produced a documentary about his father entitled God Bless Ozzy Osbourne.In November 2025, Jack was one of the contestants on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in sixth place.