Jack Osbourne welcomes child named Ozzy in tribute to late father

By Casey Cooper-Fiske, Press Association Senior Entertainment Reporter

TV personality Jack Osbourne has announced the birth of his fifth child, naming her Ozzy in tribute to his late father, Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne.

The 40-year-old announced his second child with his current wife, Aree, in a post on Instagram, which featured a picture of the baby alongside a cuddly toy and a label which read “hello world”.

The former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! contestant said: “Introducing Ozzy Matilda Osbourne.”

Emmerdale star Lisa Riley, who appeared on the ITV reality show with Osbourne in 2025, was among the stars congratulating Osbourne and his wife on the birth of their child.

She said in a comment on the Instagram post: “My heart is melting, love to you and all the family, congratulations.”

The couple announced they were expecting the child in December last year, with an Instagram post that showed Osbourne cradling his wife’s pregnant belly alongside the caption: “Oops I did it again.”

Following the announcement, Osbourne told The Sun On Sunday: “It’s awesome. It’s been partly a healthy distraction, partly healing — probably in that kind of full cycle category, in a weird way.

“It’s very much taken energy out of the grieving side of things and parked in a bit more hopefulness.

“It’s been easy for me. It’s been a lot harder for my wife.

“We’re super-excited. It was sort of planned, I should say. It was maybe a little earlier than expected.

“But it’s something that we were wanting to pursue and somehow it happened, miraculously.”

It comes after Osbourne’s father died aged 76 in July last year, having been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019.

In the weeks before his death, Ozzy had taken to the stage as part of the Back To The Beginning concert, in which he reunited with his bandmates at Birmingham’s Villa Park.

Fans laid flowers at Black Sabbath Bench on Broad Street in the city and hundreds of fans paid their respects to him during a cortege procession in July last year.

Osbourne and his wife, who married in 2023, already share daughter Maple, while Osbourne also has three children – Pearl, Andy, and Minnie – with ex-wife Lisa Stelly.