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Born October 27, 1984, in Westminster, England; daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.
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Writer, singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer. Australia’s Got Talent and Project Runway Junior, judge. The 7D animated series, voice of Hildy Gloom. Worked formerly as a presented on E!’s Fashion Police between 2010 and 2015.
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SIDELIGHTS
Kelly Osbourne is a writer, singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer. Daughter of rockstar Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly rose to prominence in the early 2000s, with the airing of reality television show, “The Osbournes.” The show, which ran from 2002 to 2005, documented the day-to-day lives of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne and their two younger children, Kelly and Jack. The series started when Osbourne was seventeen, and through it she developed a reputation for being funny, brash, and sharp.
In 2002, Osbourne released her first album, “Shut Up.” In 2004 she had her acting debut, playing a supporting role in CBS high school drama, “Life As We Know It.” Between 2005 and 2009 Osbourne had acting parts in a variety of productions, including in the musical drama “Chicago” and “The Queen’s Handbag.” She also began hosting shows during this time, such as “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me out of Here! Now,” and the 2005 MTV Australia Video Music Awards.
In 2009, Osbourne participated in celebrity dance competition show, “Dancing with the Stars.” She and dance partner Louis van Amstel placed third. Between 2010 and 2015 Osbourne cohosted E!’s “Fashion Police.” During this time she was a E!’s Fashion red carpet correspondent. Osbourne and mother Sharon released a line of of M*A*C Cosmetics brand make-up in 2014. Osbourne also has a fashion line, “Stories…By Kelly Osbourne,” which runs from sizes 0 to 24. Osbourne was born in Westminster, London, though she grew up traveling around the United Kingdom and the United States as her father toured.
Osbourne’s debut book, There Is No F*cking Secret: : Letters From a Badass Bitch, is comprised of a series of letters that Osbourne wrote to parts of herself, her family and friends, and her critics. Through these letters Osbourne lays out her childhood and young adulthood, while simultaneously revealing her vulnerabilities and growth. A contributor to Kirkus Reviews wrote that Osbourne’s fans will “devour her amusing and sometimes-scandalous anecdotes and applicable advice on life, fashion, and self-acceptance.”
Osbourne explains that her choice to format the book as a series of letters is personal. For Osbourne, a celebrity in the spotlight who has struggled with drug addiction and weight and self-esteem issues, letter-writing has, at times in her life, been her only contact with friends and family. The book took her three years to write, and she describes the writing of the book as a sort of intensive therapy, a way for her to work through some of her past while opening her story up to her readers.
While Osbourne writes letters to individuals one might expect- her family, her friends, her bullies- she also pens notes to more unusual recipients, such as fashion, her purple hair, and dating. The book opens with a letter to Osbourne’s inner filter, something she humorously asserts seems to have failed at its job. She then goes on to reveal letters written to her mother, father, and brother. A notable section of the book focuses on Osbourne’s close relationship with the late Joan Rivers, with whom Osbourne worked on E!’s “Fashion Police.” Osbourne writes lovingly of Rivers, while also including comical anecdotes, such as the fact that on the set of “Fashion Police,” Rivers would place a paper toilet seat cover on the toilet seat and then light it on fire before using the toilet to destroy any germs.
A contributor to Publishers Weekly wrote: “Her trademark humor and coarse language are always in evidence, even when she’s discussing the bleakest of subjects.” Osbourne touches upon serious topics, such as her father’s drug overdose that occurred while her mother was in the hospital for cancer treatment, but does so with humor and lightness. She also includes graphic details of her upbringing in a rockstar household, and insights into what it is like to grow up in the spotlight. She writes about her celebrity friends, such as the late Amy Winehouse, and reflects on their struggles.
Described by Kristine Huntley in Booklist as “candid and engaging,” the book is one of hope and inspiration. Osbourne is blunt about her struggles; it took her many years to overcome drug addiction and struggles with food and body issues. She notes that to the outside world it may seem that she rebounded quickly and confidently, but this is merely due to the fact that the paparazzi only seems to care about the destination of a celebrity’s path, not the journey itself, because this makes for a more entertaining story.
A contributor to Publishers Weekly noted: “Osbourne isn’t perfect and she isn’t trying to be; instead, she’s honest about her faults and victories, something much more difficult to pull off.” Osbourne explains that her journey was long and difficult, but she is able to look back at her struggles and find the humor in the past. Huntley in Booklist wrote, “every reader will find her hard-won confidence and sobriety inspiring.”
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Booklist, March 15, 2017, Kristine Huntley, review of There Is No F*cking Secret: Letters from a Badass Bitch, p. 12.
Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2017, review of There Is No F*cking Secret.
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Entertainment Weekly, http://ew.com (April 25, 2017), review of There Is No F*cking Secret.
Publishers Weekly, https://www.publishersweekly.com (May 15, 2017), review of There Is No F*cking Secret.*
Kelly Osbourne was born on October 27, 1984 in Westminster, London, England as Kelly Lee Osbourne. She is an actress and producer, known for Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), The 7D (2014) and So Undercover (2012).
Kelly Osbourne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne 2013.jpg
Osbourne attending The Heart Truth Red Dress Collection Fashion Show, 2013
Born Kelly Lee Osbourne
27 October 1984 (age 33)
City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Occupation
Singer-songwriter actress author television personality model fashion designer
Years active 1998–present
Net worth $15,000,000[1]
Television
The Osbournes
Fashion Police
Parent(s)
Ozzy Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne
Relatives
Aimee Osbourne (sister)
Jack Osbourne (brother)
Don Arden (maternal grandfather)
Website kellyosbourne.com
Musical career
Genres
Pop punk new wave synthpop
Labels
Epic Sanctuary Universal
Associated acts Ozzy Osbourne
Kelly Lee Osbourne[2][3][4] (born 27 October 1984)[2] is a British singer-songwriter, actress, television presenter and fashion designer. The daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, she is known for her appearances on The Osbournes with her family, for which they won a 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program, as well as on E!'s Fashion Police, where she was a presenter from 2010 to 2015. She has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars,[5] in which she and her professional dance partner Louis van Amstel took third place. She is the voice of Hildy Gloom in the Disney XD animated series The 7D. She is also a judge on both Australia's Got Talent and Project Runway Junior.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 2002–2005: The Osbournes and Shut Up
2.2 2006–2009: Acting and hosting duties
2.3 2009: Dancing with the Stars
2.3.1 Performances
2.4 2010–present: Fashion Police and other endeavours
2.4.1 Donald Trump remarks
3 Activism and charity work
4 Discography
4.1 Albums
4.2 Singles
5 Filmography
6 Awards and nominations
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Early life[edit]
Osbourne was born in Westminster, London.[3][6] She has an elder sister, Aimee, and a younger brother, Jack. From Ozzy's first marriage, she also has two half-siblings: Jessica Hobbs and Louis John Osbourne.[7] She had an unofficially "adopted" brother, Robert Marcato, whom Sharon and Ozzy took in after Marcato's mother died. Kelly grew up travelling with her father as he went on tour, and lived in more than 20 homes, mostly in the US, as well as in the UK.[8]
Career[edit]
2002–2005: The Osbournes and Shut Up[edit]
Osbourne and the rest of her family (without Aimee) chose the vicissitudes of public life with the MTV reality show The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 to 2005. The series chronicled their day-to-day life, portraying a dysfunctional family in which metal music, profanity and other harshness were a daily part of life. Kelly, the middle child, emerged (according to Rolling Stone) as "a wickedly funny, brutally honest, pint-size, potty-mouthed spitfire." The series started when she was seventeen, and ended when she was twenty. Kelly said in an interview for The Osbournes DVD that the crew were only actually supposed to be there for a few weeks but ended up staying for a few months and that the constant cameras focusing on her and her family was stressful.[9] In 2002, during the second season of The Osbournes, Kelly dated The Used lead singer Bert McCracken. The show was filmed in California, where the family has had their residence for several decades.
Both she and the Osbourne family were parodied in Channel 4 comedy Bo' Selecta in which the rubber-masked Kelly, played by Leigh Francis, has her own show and is always being censored for swearing with bleeps.
After her appearance on the reality show, Osbourne quickly began to be noted for her varied and trendy style among fashion commentators like Steven Cojocaru[10][11] In 2004, Osbourne launched her own fashion line, Stiletto Killers,[12] with her friend and former sponsor, Ali Barone. Stiletto Killers was a rock-inspired line of tees, knickers, hoodies and sweatpants designed by Osbourne and Barone, emblazoned with cartoonish designs and punk rock phrases. There was also a more sophisticated couture branch, the SK Collection. Stiletto Killers closed in April 2006.
Her debut album, Shut Up, was released by Epic Records in 2002 to moderate American sales, but good European sales. The lead single, a cover of Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach", debuted with Houston rock band Pure Rubbish at the 2002 MTV Film Awards.[13] The album, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart, was met with mixed critical reviews and, by May 2003, Osbourne was dropped from Epic Records. By autumn she was on the Sanctuary label, later recording a duet of "Changes" (a Black Sabbath song) with her father. The duet hit No. 1 on the UK charts and resulted in a reissue of Shut Up, titled Changes. "Changes" was one of a few tracks to have fallen down the charts (from 1–3) whilst selling more copies than the week it reached number 1. Osbourne was the first artist to top all three of the Billboard charts dance surveys in the same week with the "Chris Cox Club Remix" of "One Word".[14] Her second album Sleeping in the Nothing was not without controversy, due to its reportedly heavily altered album cover, in which Osbourne appeared slimmer,[15] despite her previous assertions of being happy with her size.[citation needed]
Osbourne made her debut as an actress with a starring role on 7 October 2004 on the ABC high school teenage drama Life as We Know It, where she played the supporting role of Deborah Beatrice Tynan. During an interview in late 2005, Osbourne denied reports she was ending her music career, saying: "I don't know where the quit rumours came from – I've just recorded a version of 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' with Cyndi Lauper."[16]
On 2 April 2004, Osbourne entered the Malibu rehab facility Promises after admitting to her family that she was addicted to painkillers.[17] Over a year later, on 2 June, she checked into Las Encinas Hospital, a drug treatment centre in Pasadena, California, after a relapse.[18] She entered another drug treatment facility in January 2009;[19] she stayed for a month and later acknowledged that she had suffered a relapse of her addiction to painkillers.[20] After 30 days, she was released; she has been quoted as saying that this was the first time she really thought rehab had helped her.[21]
2006–2009: Acting and hosting duties[edit]
In spring 2006, Osbourne modelled for Heatherette in a catwalk show. In June, she played the role of Wendy from Peter Pan in The Queen's Handbag and provided her voice for the animated film Live Freaky Die Freaky. Later that year, she became the face of the high street chain Accessorize. In July 2007, Osbourne portrayed the role of prison matron Mama Morton in the musical drama Chicago[22] for seven weeks at the Cambridge Theatre.[23] Osbourne co-hosted the 2006 edition of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! Now, a spin-off show of the main ITV1 programme. She hosted alongside Jeff Brazier in Australia, and Mark Durden-Smith in the London studio. Her one-off gigs include the 2002 MTV Film Awards, Top of the Pops Saturday, MTV's Isle of MTV, MTV UK and Ireland's red carpet coverage of the 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards, Popworld, The Sunday Night Project, the 2005 MTV Australia Video Music Awards and Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show. In spring 2006, Osbourne was one of the judges on Making Your Mind Up. In September 2006, at the Electric Picnic festival in Ireland, Osbourne and her boyfriend, Matty Derham of the band Fields, held a wedding ceremony. Her representative denied that the ceremony was legally binding, because it did not meet Irish legal requirements, as in Ireland, at the time, a couple couldn't get married in an outdoor venue.[24] She later went on to date Matt Walker, promoter and tour manager though not hers.[25]
Kelly (right) with her mother Sharon Osbourne in 2012
In February 2006, Osbourne was a guest judge for the Season One Episode Four of Project Catwalk on Sky1. She went on to host Seasons Two and Three of Project Catwalk in 2007 and 2008 respectively. In autumn 2007, Osbourne signed to BBC Radio 1 to host the Sunday night show, Radio 1's The Surgery, and on 7 October 2007 she went on air for the first time with the issue of self-harm. She was scheduled to return to the show in early 2009 and whilst she was away, Aled Haydn Jones from The Chris Moyles Show presented the show. Aled has now been confirmed as a full-time presenter. In spring 2008, she began contributing a teenage advice column to the tabloid newspaper the Sun, "Kelly Confidential", where she is billed as "the teen trouble shooter". In 2008 she featured in the short musical film The Town that Boars Me by photographer Ben Charles Edwards. The film also features Sadie Frost, Jodie Harsh, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Zandra Rhodes amongst others. The film debuted in late summer at the Portobello Film Festival. In 2009 she appeared in an episode of Hotel Babylon, a British TV show aired on BBC One. She played Jo, a character very similar to herself. In August 2010, Osbourne began filming on the comedy Should've Been Romeo, her first major role in Hollywood. She plays Nicole, a fun-loving groupie. The film was released in the US on 28 April 2012. In December 2010 it was confirmed that Osbourne would be starring alongside Disney star Miley Cyrus in So Undercover, she plays a sorority sister to undercover Private eye Miley Cyrus. Filming began in December 2010 and was released on 6 December 2012.[26][27]
On 19 January 2009, Osbourne was arrested for assault after allegedly slapping Daily Mirror columnist Zoe Griffin at a club in August 2008 after Griffin wrote a story that mocked Osbourne's then-boyfriend Luke Worrall.[28] In March 2009, Osbourne was engaged to model Luke Worrall.[29] In July 2010, she split from him[30] after he had an affair with model Elle Schneider.[31][32][33] Osbourne presented ITV2's coverage of the National Television Awards with her brother Jack, and a documentary on Japanese pop culture called Kelly Osbourne: Turning Japanese for the same channel.[34] Osbourne has presented on The Surgery with Kelly Osbourne on BBC Radio 1. In March 2009, Osbourne returned to television with the rest of the Osbourne family on Osbournes: Reloaded.[35] On 1 September 2009, Osbourne released her first autobiography: Fierce via Virgin Books.[4][36] Though the book contains autobiography elements, as well as advice, strength and guidance through tough periods.
Since September 2009, she has written a weekly column giving advice and celebrity gossip in UK magazine Closer.[37]
2009: Dancing with the Stars[edit]
On 17 August 2009, co-hosts Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris announced the cast of stars for the 2009 autumn series of Dancing with the Stars. Kelly Osbourne was to be one of the 16 celebrity contestants. A week later, her professional partner was announced: Dutch ballroom champion Louis van Amstel. The competition, starting 21 September 2009, entailed 10 weeks of training and dancing. On 17 November 2009, the final three were announced: Osbourne, singer Mýa and pop legend Donny Osmond. In the final, Osbourne and her partner placed third.
Performances[edit]
Week Dance/Song Carrie Ann's score Len/Baz's score Bruno's score Result
1 Viennese Waltz/"Trouble"
Cha-Cha-Cha/"Centerfold" 7
Awarded 8
8 8
Points Safe
2 Tango/"Take Me on the Floor" 6 7 6 Safe
3 Samba/"LoveGame" 7 6 7 Safe
4 Charleston/"Cabaret" 8 7 8 Safe
5 Paso Doble/"Crazy Train" 8 8 8 Safe
6 Jitterbug/"Bread and Butter"
Mambo Marathon/"Ran Kan Kan" 7
Awarded 6
5 7
Points Safe
7 Salsa/"Good Lovin'"
Team Tango/"You Give Love a Bad Name" 8
9 8
9 8
10 Safe
8 Foxtrot/"Mama Do (Uh Oh Uh Oh)"
'60s Jive/"River Deep – Mountain High" 8
9 8
8 9
9 Last to Be
Called Safe
9 Rumba/"Angels"
Quickstep/"99 Red Balloons"
Cha-Cha-Cha/"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" 8
9
9 8
9
9 8
9
9 Last to Be
Called Safe
10 Argentine Tango/"Los Vino"
Megamix/"You and Me", "Whenever, Wherever", "Maniac"
Freestyle/"I Will Survive"
Viennese Waltz/"Trouble" 9
Awarded
8
Awarded 9
26
8
26 8
Points
8
Points Third Place
2010–present: Fashion Police and other endeavours[edit]
In 2010, she modeled a Chris Benz dress for Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief runway show for the White Ribbon Alliance to raise funds for mothers in Haiti. In 2011 Osbourne became a fashion correspondent for the cable network E!, serving as a host, with Joan Rivers, of the series Fashion Police. In June 2011, she hosted the Miss USA pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, with Susie Castillo.
In 2012, she appeared as a guest judge in season 4 of RuPaul's Drag Race, and hosted the New Now Next Awards. In September 2012, US rapper Lil' Kim confirmed she and Osbourne were to join forces for a rock-rap cover of Elton John's 1974 hit "The Bitch Is Back".[38] In 2013, Osbourne walked the runway for The Heart Truth Red Dress Fashion Show.[39]
On 7 March 2013, while filming an episode of Fashion Police with guest Melissa Rivers, Osbourne collapsed and began experiencing a seizure that reportedly lasted thirty seconds, after which she was taken to a local Los Angeles hospital for testing.[40]
In July 2013, Osbourne became engaged to Matthew Mosshart, a chef whom she met at the 2011 wedding of model Kate Moss to Jamie Hince.[41] Osbourne and Mosshart called off the engagement in January 2014.[42]
In August 2013, Osbourne was a guest judge on the 12th season of Project Runway. She was a guest judge on the October 2014 premiere episode of Project Runway: Threads. She is a regular judge on Project Runway: Junior[43]
In February 2015, Osbourne exited Fashion Police after complaints about her co-host's comments on the show.[44]
On 28 October 2015, it was confirmed that Osbourne would be a new judge on Australia's Got Talent for its eighth season on Channel Nine.[45]
Donald Trump remarks[edit]
On 4 August 2015, while appearing as a guest co-host on The View, Kelly caused controversy when she said, "If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?" Her comments were in response to GOP Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's controversial stance on illegal Mexican immigration.[46] Co-host Rosie Perez quickly interjected by stating, "There's more jobs than that in the country for Latinos, and Latinos are not the only people who clean toilets." Osbourne then attempted to explain herself. Kelly's comments set social media ablaze and led to the Twitter hashtag #QueridaKellyOsbourne (Dear Kelly Osbourne). Hours after her appearance on the show, she released a clarification on Facebook.[47] Perez apologised for misconstruing her statement.[48] Her comments come almost six months after her decision to leave Fashion Police, which ironically was alleged to be due to a racially insensitive comment made by Giuliana Rancic.[49]
Activism and charity work[edit]
Osbourne appeared at an HIV charity benefit in February 2007, a cause she revealed stemmed from the HIV positive status of her cousin Terry Longden, of the reality show The Salon.[50][51]
On 1 April 2010, Osbourne (along with her mother Sharon) joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community as part of her True Colours Fund. The campaign is to bring straight people to stand up with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community and stop the discrimination. Other names included in the campaign are Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Mraz, Elton John, Judith Light, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Kardashian, Anna Paquin and Clay Aiken.
In December 2010, she appeared on the ITV gameshow The Cube where she took away £20,000 for The Prince's Trust.[citation needed]
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Osbourne joined hands with the Salvation Army in Staten Island, New York during their recovery efforts in November 2012.[52]
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The title of Kelly Osbourne’s new book ‘There Is No F*cking Secret’ says it all
By Angela Haupt April 20, 2017
(Darren Tieste)
When the public first met Kelly Osbourne on her family’s reality show “The Osbournes” in 2002, she was — in her own words — “a f—ed-up ugly duckling” teased mercilessly as “worthless celebrity spawn.” Fast-forward more than a decade (and more than a few mishaps, she’s quick to note), and she’s emerged a lavender-haired swan, with stints on “Fashion Police” and “Project Runway: Junior,” and her own fashion and makeup lines.
And now everyone wants to know how she did it. “People don’t pick up on your journey until you’ve arrived at your destination,” says Osbourne, 32, whose book “There Is No F*cking Secret: Letters From a Badass Bitch” will be released on Tuesday, a day before her talk with Kelly Cutrone at Sixth & I. “It’s committing to a life change, and it’s a lot easier said than done.”
The book is a series of smart, profanity-laden letters from Osbourne — to her parents, to her body, to addiction, to bathroom “seat sprinklers.” She spent more than three years on the book and now that it’s time to share it, she’s terrified people won’t like it. “I put everything into it, I bared my soul,” she says. “But it’s made me so very vulnerable.” Express talked to Osbourne about fashion, recovery and the misconceptions she wants to shatter.
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Why did you write this book?
There’s this weird delusion that when you’re famous, you don’t have problems. It’s such the opposite, and I want people to know they’re not alone, that there are other people who go through what they go through and know what it feels like to not want to get out of bed in the morning. I want people to read this and have the courage to start liking themselves, because to not like yourself — or to wish you were someone else — is one of the worst things in the world.
You write candidly about your drug addiction and rehabilitation. Is it something you continue to work on?
Yes, I’m in therapy. I believe if you’re not in therapy, you’re crazy, because everybody needs a nonbiased perspective into their lives and someone they can talk to.
Just last night, I was at dinner and somebody brought a friend none of us really knew. And he was asking every single person, do you want to get some [cocaine]? I was sitting there nervously and uncomfortably, and finally I was like, ‘no.’ But then I looked at the positive of it — that I actually don’t want to, and it’s not a part of my world anymore. People have this idea that you do drugs for fun, but I did drugs to numb myself because I hated myself and my life.
Requisite fashion question: What’s about to be big, and what will soon be out of style?
It’s going to be a lot of high-end looks that women wear with sneakers — even Victoria Beckham isn’t wearing the high heels she used to wear every day; she was just wearing a pair of chocolate Adidas with a beautiful black suit. Power suits are coming back for women, and I really hope the ombre and gladiator shoes are going. They didn’t look good on gladiators, so why the f— are you still trying to wear them?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kelly Osbourne is a television personality, host, fashion designer, singer and actress. She first came to prominence while appearing on the Emmy Award-winning reality series The Osbournes with her family from 2002-2005. Since then, Osbourne co-hosted E!’s hit show Fashion Police and was frequently found on the red carpet as one of E!’s Fashion Correspondents. She has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars and guest-starred on various other television shows. A collection of M*A*C Cosmetics co-created with her mother, Sharon, debuted in 2014. She has also designed Stories…By Kelly Osbourne, her first ready-to-wear fashion line with sizes from 0-24. Osbourne was also recently a judge on Australia’s Got Talent and can be seen on the judging panel for Project Runway: Junior.
Kelly Osbourne Will Reveal Her Life Story In A Memoir
SUZANNAH WEISS
JUNE 21, 2016, 4:30 PM
PHOTO: ANDREW H. WALKER/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.
Though she got famous for being Ozzy Osbourne's daughter, Kelly Osbourne is a celebrity in her own right. From her TV appearances to her controversial political views and feuds with other celebrities, she always manages to end up in the news. So, it's not too surprising that she's landed herself a book deal.
Appropriate for her tell-it-like-it-is attitude, the memoir, which comes out next spring, is called There’s No Fucking Secret. Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons told Entertainment Weekly that the book covers the details of Osbourne's life and the lessons she's learned along the way, including how "to love and accept yourself for who you really are." It'll also delve into the drug addiction she began battling as a teen.
Osbourne explained the title's meaning to Entertainment Weekly. “Growing up in the spotlight has come with its ups and downs and my life has been far from normal, but I am finally at a place where I feel empowered to be who I really am," she said. "People always ask me what my secret is and I can now honestly say that There’s No Fucking Secret.”
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Kelly Osbourne (pictured arriving at the 2nd Annual Hollywood Beauty Awards in Los Angeles in 2016) will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29. (Photo by Rich Fury, Associated Press)
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Kelly Osbourne (pictured with her dog Polly at the amfAR Inspiration Gala in 2016) will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29. (Photo by Evan Agostini, Associated Press)
Kelly Osbourne (pictured right, alongside her mother Sharon Osbourne at Elton John’s 70th Birthday in March) will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29. (Photo by Jordan Strauss, Associated Press)
Kelly Osbourne (pictured arriving at the 2nd Annual Hollywood Beauty Awards in Los Angeles in 2016) will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29. (Photo by Rich Fury, Associated Press)
Kelly Osbourne will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29.
Kelly Osbourne (pictured attending the 2016 TrevorLIVE LA in 2016) will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29. (Photo by Richard Shotwell, Associated Press)
Kelly Osbourne (pictured attending the 2016 TrevorLIVE LA in 2016) will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29. (Photo by Richard Shotwell, Associated Press)
Kelly Osbourne (pictured with her dog Polly at the amfAR Inspiration Gala in 2016) will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29. (Photo by Evan Agostini, Associated Press)
Kelly Osbourne (pictured right, alongside her mother Sharon Osbourne at Elton John’s 70th Birthday in March) will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29. (Photo by Jordan Strauss, Associated Press)
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Kelly Osbourne (pictured right, alongside her mother Sharon Osbourne at Elton John’s 70th Birthday in March) will discuss and sign copies of her new book “There’s No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Badass B*tch,” at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29. (Photo by Jordan Strauss, Associated Press)
Kelly Osbourne is known as a lot of things. She’s a reality TV star, a fashion TV show and red carpet host, an actress, a singer and most notably the boisterous middle child of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne.
Now at 32, Osbourne said she had previously assumed that because she grew up in the spotlight of Hollywood that the general public knew all about her life. However, she’s tired of people getting it all wrong.
She candidly shares some of the brightest and darkest aspects of her life, divulging on everything from her body, drug addiction and rehab, her lavender-colored hair and fashion in her new memoir “There is No … Secret: Letters from a Badass Bitch.” She also reveals bits about her relationships with her mother, father, her brother Jack and the special bond she shared with the late Joan Rivers.
“I finally wanted the opportunity to tell people who I am because I’m sick and (expletive) tired of people telling me who I am,” she said during a recent phone interview before she discusses and signs her new release at Book Soup in West Hollywood on Saturday, April 29.
“People don’t know that I, like, lived in a hospital for two years with my mom and gave up my career so I could spend every second with her,” she said of Sharon Osbourne’s battle with colorectal cancer back in 2002. She also related stories about having her mom in one hospital and getting the call that her dad was in another following a near-fatal ATV accident, all of this while the family was still filming its reality TV series, “The Osbournes” for MTV.
“People didn’t see that my dad needed to shower so I was in a wetsuit, he was in a wetsuit and he had his neck brace on and we’re in the shower,” she said. “I’m like, isn’t it funny that I’m standing in the shower with you in a wetsuit and you’re in a wetsuit and the whole purpose of this is so you can get clean?”
Instead of being broken into chapters, the book is written as several letters on which Osbourne spent time being as honest as possible without rambling on. The former “Fashion Police” co-host said she went at it completely uncensored because “society has been so sanitized by this unattainable idea of perfection.
“There’s this idea that we all have to be perfect. But there is no such thing. It is a false idea and a great (expletive) lie.”
Even now, as she has grown from an angsty teenager with questionable hair and outfit choices into a more glamorous fashion and style icon, Osbourne said she still can’t believe the amount of airbrushing that goes into publications and ads as they attempt to achieve the “perfect” look.
“It’s a constant struggle that I have sometimes when I do a magazine cover and I’m like ‘That doesn’t look a (expletive) thing like me,’” she said with a laugh. “People know what I look like.”
In the book, Osbourne touches on the people who have had a profound impact on her life, including friends such as Nicole Richie, Amy Winehouse and family friends like Elton John and Robin Williams, who helped her through some of the toughest moments of her life.
“Nicole … that was one of those moments that we will always be kindred spirits because of it,” she explained, as Richie was with her when she got the call about her mother’s grim cancer diagnosis.
“I was lying on the floor at Nobu crying and she’s so small and she picked (me) up and carried me to a taxi. I ruined her like two grand Missoni dress with my mascara and I was wearing a lot of black eyeliner back then, but she didn’t care.”
Osbourne said she’s loyal to a fault, but considers herself lucky to have such caring friends and a strong family support system. Within the book she addresses her family members individually, something she said she allowed each person to read before she set it to be published.
“My mom has written a book, my dad wrote a book, Jack wrote a book and I’ve never got the opportunity to know what things were going to be in those books,” she said. “There were some things in there that I didn’t even know happened myself. I never want to hurt anybody, so I sent it out six months before it was to be finished and I said ‘Please read this and if there’s anything you don’t like about it, I’ll take it out, no questions asked.’
“I’m not in the business of hurting my family. I love them. We love each other so much. Plenty of people have tried to break us or something … they haven’t managed to do it. We’re not like most other celebrities because of that fact that when we (expletive) up, we admit it.”
The most difficult section to write, Osbourne admits, was about her father. She openly discusses his addictions but applauds him for being a constant performer as even now, in his 60s, the Prince of Darkness is still running around on stage for two and a half hours a night, performing in front of thousands of loyal devotees.
“He’s my hero and he’s my best friend,” she said. “My dad tells me absolutely everything and sometimes I’m like ‘Oh my God, Dad, I didn’t want to know that!’ Or I say ‘scarred for life!’ But my dad and I wake up every day and send each other jokes via text messages.”
Kelly Osbourne book signing event
When: 2 p.m. Saturday, April 29
Where: Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood
More info: Only books purchased at Book Soup ($27 hardcover) will be signed; the receipt is your ticket in line and will be checked. Due to the size of the store, only the first 60 people in line will be allowed in for the pre-signing discussion with Kelly Osbourne and Kelly Cutrone.
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Kelli Skye Fadroski lives for entertainment. She’s worked at The Orange County Register since 2006 and has covered all things music, stand-up comedy, horror and more. When she’s not out reviewing a concert or interviewing some random famous person, she’s catching up on episodes of “The Walking Dead,” somewhere sampling craft beer, enjoying Taco Tuesday or yelling at the contestants through the TV on “Celebrity Name Game” for not knowing basic pop culture trivia. She’s also a diehard Detroit Lions fan.
Kelly Osbourne reveals dad Ozzy overdosed on pills as Sharon battled cancer
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By Nick Levine Jan 9, 2017
Osbourne writes about the incident in her forthcoming book 'There Is No Fucking Secret: Letters From A Badass Bitch'.
Kelly Osbourne reveals in her forthcoming book that Ozzy Osbourne overdosed on pills while wife Sharon was fighting cancer.
Rock matriarch Sharon received treatment for colon cancer in 2002 and her battle with the disease was documented on the second season of the family’s MTV reality series The Osbournes.
Recalling the overdose in her book There Is No Fucking Secret: Letters From A Badass Bitch, middle child Kelly writes: “Dad was there in his boxers, and I watched him scoop his hands into a bowl of pills, swallow a handful of something, and then wash it down with vodka.”
According to AOL News, Kelly writes that later, during an ambulance journey, Ozzy “leaned over to put his hand out to see if mum was breathing. Then he passed out with his hand over her mouth… The EMTs tried to pull him off, and dad, not knowing where he was or what he was doing, started to resist out of habit. They pulled over the ambulance and started to call the police.”
Osbourne writes that she begged the Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) not to call the police and her parents were then taken to separate rooms in the same hospital, where her father received treatment for alcohol and drug poisoning. “Dad could not handle the thought of losing mum,” Kelly writes.
Kelly Osbourne’s book There Is No Fucking Secret: Letters From A Badass Bitch is published in April. Ozzy Osbourne recently told NME about the scariest song he ever wrote.
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/music/kelly-osbourne-reveals-dad-ozzy-overdosed-on-pills-as-sharon-battled-cancer-1940294#j8rWOJUi61p3uFr3.99
April 19, 2017 at 5:53 pm EST | by Mariah Cooper
Kelly Osbourne discusses life and passions in new memoir
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Kelly Osbourne says growing up in one-of-a-kind circumstances with hard-working parents gave her a distinct outlook on life. (Photo by Darren Tieste)
Kelly Osbourne
In Conversation with Kelly Cutrone
Wednesday, April 26
7:30 p.m.
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I St., N.W.
$17-42
The daughter of business mogul and talk show host Sharon Osbourne and heavy metal music legend Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne was not only born into a family of success but into the spotlight. Osbourne appeared with the rest of her family on MTV’s “The Osbournes,” from 2002-2005, arguably kicking off the modern reality show genre that is popular today.
Known as the mouthy teenage girl on the show, Osbourne is now a 32-year-old who has evolved into former “The View” talk show host and has appeared on “Fashion Police” alongside Joan Rivers. Osbourne prides herself on being an LGBT ally and has contributed to numerous LGBT organizations including the Trevor Project. She has now written a book, “There is No F*cking Secret,” a series of letters that focus on personal topics such as her mother’s cancer diagnosis, her father’s battle with addiction and her own struggle with body image.
Osbourne spoke with the Washington Blade on everything from growing up with Joan Rivers to being the child of famous parents and more.
WASHINGTON BLADE: What made you decide now was the time to write a book about your life?
KELLY OSBOURNE: I’ve wasted so much time of my life. Whenever anyone asks me, “What do you regret most?,” I always said, “I regret nothing.” Until I started writing this book and I realized there was one thing I truly fucking regret. And it’s that I wasted so much time in my life trying to be anyone but who I really am. It’s such a miserable fucking journey. It’s so deflating and you get lost. I let the media and public perception tell me who I really was and I fed into it. That is my responsibility and my fault because I did do that. But I was so young, I didn’t know any better. It’s my chance now to be like, “Fuck that, cut the crap, this is who I am. I am telling you who I am.” And hopefully by me telling you who I am and sharing my stories with you, you will know even though I’m famous, I was born famous. I didn’t really get a choice in the matter. I have problems too and any of the problems I’ve had I’ll share with you that way you won’t feel alone. And that way you’ll know someone else out there has been through it too. And I hope that people get something out of the mistakes I’ve made. And the fact that love in our family is what kept us together and kept us going. People stop caring about other people and people stop remembering that love is what’s most important.
BLADE: Did you write the book in the format of letters because you wanted it to be more personal?
OSBOURNE: No. We live in a world of millennials now. People like instant gratification. They’ll read a headline and a few sentences and you’re an instant genius. When it comes to reading a book I even realized, I don’t want to read it from start to finish. I like to pick it up, put it down and you can start from all different places. Like a book of short stories. I like books like that because you don’t have to commit to finishing it all at the same time. You can look at the chapters and see if there’s anything that relates to you and go to that chapter. I’m praying my parents don’t read the vagina one.
BLADE: Was there anything else you were worried about your family reading?
OSBOURNE: Yes. Every member of my family has written a book. What I realized is we can all be in the same room and see the same thing, but we all have a different perception of what happened. We see it differently because we’re different people. I made sure that I sent the book to everybody in my family with a note saying, “Guys this is the book. Anything you want taken out let me know, no questions asked.” Because they are my family, I do talk about them so I had to give them that respect. Especially with my brother (Jack Osbourne) who has two children. I would never want to say anything that could affect them because you never know what the media is going to pick up on.
I’m noticing right now from the press they’re really focusing on the drug aspect of everything. I haven’t done drugs, weed excluded because I don’t consider that a drug, since I was 24 years old. I’m 33 this year. I got so much more shit being fat than I ever did being a druggie. And I think because I pointed it out so much now they’re focusing back on the fact that I was a druggie. But now I’m looking at what’s going on in the media right now and I’m seeing how many deaths from opioid abuse, and so it is a prevalent topic, but I don’t want that message to get lost. Because it’s not just what the book is about. It’s about my experience looking after my mom when she had cancer, my Lyme’s disease, relationships, body image, fitting in, having no inner filter, discovering who you are.
BLADE: Did you find the writing process difficult?
OSBOURNE: This is the second time, but (the first time) I honestly feel like sabotaged it halfway through. When I first started writing (the first book) I was in a really good place, but by the end of it I wasn’t and everything I was advising in the book I wasn’t even listening to. I wasn’t doing it myself so I felt like I was a hypocrite. This book is not just redemption on that book, me finally not only writing this but I’m doing what I’m writing. Everybody feels like they have to be perfect and they have to look a certain way. It’s not even about being famous anymore, which is called being an “influencer.” The pressure that young people are under just over the simplest things. The selfie that goes on Instagram, that isn’t a part of my level of understanding. I have such a love/hate relationship with social media but it makes me really happy that it wasn’t around when I was younger because I would have probably been arrested. And that I didn’t have to deal with that added pressure as well. It’s unbelievable.
BLADE: Being the child of famous parents, what’s the biggest misconception people have?
OSBOURNE: My parents were very smart with how they raised me. Back in the days before cell phones, we had beepers. I wanted one and my mom said, “You want one, you go get a job and you pay for it yourself.” So I’ve had a job and been self-sufficient outside of my parents. I’ve had a job since I was 13. I’ve been self sufficient outside of my parents since I was 15. My parents taught us, “You want something, you work for it.” When you’re a celebrity’s kid you have to prove yourself 10 times over. Because you have to prove it’s not just handed to you and you have to gain the respect to prove that you are hardworking and don’t think you’re better than everyone else. But then you do have to be better. It’s a very weird contradiction. People think, “Oh you’re someone’s kid you don’t do anything.” I’m like, “I’ve been working since I was 15. I don’t know how I’m going to pay my mortgage this month.” People think they get to do all of these fabulous things and yes, we do, but anywhere there is fabulousness, it attracts shit. And there’s a lot more shit in this industry than there is fabulousness.
BLADE: Your mother is a co-host on “The Talk.” Do you ever hear her say anything on the show and think “Mom, I didn’t need to know that”?
OSBOURNE: Oh my god. If I ever have to hear about my mom and dad’s sex life I’m like, “Mom!” I guess everybody gets that in their own home, I just get it on national TV. But it’s my mom. She’s earned the right to say whatever the fuck she wants. She has worked her ass off. There are very few women in this industry who can get to that level. Joan Rivers is one of them and so is my mom. They paid their dues. My mom would never say anything to hurt me. Even though sometimes I want to crawl into a hole and die that she told people things about me on national TV. That’s just what it is. I probably would have told everyone anyway. She birthed me so she has the right. And of course, I was the only kid out of my siblings that my mom didn’t have an epidural for. I’m the, “Do you know the pain and suffering?” That’s what I get.
BLADE: You’ve also been a big supporter of the LGBT community. Why has that type of advocacy been important to you?
OSBOURNE: The LGBT community is a community that never gave up on me and that has supported me through thick and thin. (The community) taught me to believe in myself and taught me how to do my makeup and to love yourself no matter what anyone else thinks. Be who makes you happy. Stand against the odds and dare to be different and unique. Everybody has a unique individual inside of them. It’s whether they’re brave enough or not to show it to the world. They can find it within themselves to be brave and show the world who they really are which is a scary thing to do. It’s easier said than done. And within the gay community there is so much creativity and love and acceptance because they’ve been the outcasts of society or at home their whole life. They know what that feels like. I was the outcast too growing up with a satanic, as they said, father in this country village.
Everybody thought that we were satanists. I didn’t really fit in with everybody because we were different. My mom was dressed differently to pick us up from school so the parents didn’t judge us. I’ve been locked in bathrooms at school with the lights off and made to pray for my sins because my father is a satanist. And I’m like, ‘What is this?” It’s not like my parents were the equivalent of the Beckhams. My mom is known as the most badass business woman to ever be in the music industry, in fact the world. And my father is the creator of heavy metal music. It’s a lot to live up to being their kids. They’re icons in their own right. They came from a time where things weren’t instantaneous and you had to work hard. I get that from my mom. If I don’t wake up and start working, my day is shit.
BLADE: You seem like an open person and the title of your book is “There is No F*cking Secret.” But is there anything people might not know about you?
OSBOURNE: I am so empathic and loyal to my own detriment. When I feel like somebody is sad I can feel it when they hug me. I want to do everything I can to make them not feel sad. Because feeling sad, lonely and not good enough are the worst feelings in the world. I know what that feels like to feel like that every day. And I wish I could take that from people. I’m surprisingly really shy at times when someone puts a camera in front of me. I did a quick photo shoot for someone recently and I like shut down. My body language, my shoulders went in. I will never be used to being in front of a camera and my face shows it because I always look like I’m holding in a fart. When I see the red carpets in the magazines I see the girls doing the poses over the shoulder and I’m like I would look like I have jaundice if I tried that. It just isn’t in me.
BLADE: Being on “Fashion Police” with Joan Rivers, what was the best advice she gave you?
OSBOURNE: It’s in the book. You’ve got to find the humor in absolutely everything because laughter is not only the best medicine, but it’s the best survival skill too. Outside of my family and “Dancing with the Stars,” Joan was one of the only people who truly just believed in me for me. Nothing to do with my past or my present or my future. Nothing to do with my family. She just wanted to work with me. And being bestowed with that honor with somebody … I knew Joan for 25 years. I was 6 years old the first time she interviewed me. It’s the most embarrassing interview ever. I’m scratching my vagina, yawned and stuck my tongue out on the entire Father’s Day (on “The Joan Rivers Show”) special. I’m like, “Oh God.” But to have that honor to be an apprentice to Joan Rivers for as many years. We worked 52 weeks a year for over five-and-a-half years together. We did everything together. It’s still and I think it always will be a huge loss in my life that threw me in a way I didn’t think possible. Three and a half years ago I promised Joan the very first copy of my book that I got. I got it so I called Melissa (Rivers) I was like, “I got the first copy and I promised it to her.” So I’d written a little message to Joan and given it to Melissa.
BLADE: You and Melissa still keep in contact?
OSBOURNE: Fifty-two weeks a year, every year, five and a half years? She’s family. We’re family. All the crew, I miss them so much. Whenever I go into a meeting at Universal, I pop in and go in and say hi. We’re all still really close.
BLADE: You’re coming to D.C. to promote your book.
OSBOURNE: I’m so excited because I’m going to Joan’s favorite place, the Sixth & I Synagogue.
BLADE: What’s your favorite thing about D.C.?
OSBOURNE: I spent at least two to three days a year in D.C. my whole life because of being on tour with my father. You know the Jolly Green Giant on television where’s he’s like walking through fields of grass? You’re on the tour bus and all of sudden there are the monuments and so much green and the White House. You’re walking through history which is rare for me in America to feel that way because everything is so new. The house I grew up in is over a 100-and-something years old. I can’t tell you one building near me in L.A. that’s over a 100 years old. So to walk through and see this is where all the stuff I learned in school happened, I love the history of it. But it’s also very interesting that you go one mile in the other direction and it’s a completely different world. People are left and forgotten. I was a little bit shocked about that.
BLADE: They don’t show you that on TV.
OSBOURNE: At all, you don’t even know that’s there. They always say that charity starts at home, why don’t they clean up Washington and look after the people who live there and then you’ll be in a more powerful situation? It’s very confusing. But I don’t know why but I always pretend like I’m Jackie O when I’m there. Totally going to do a bouffant with my hair at my book signing for a Jackie O look. That would be so sick.
EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Osbourne tells of the mortifying moment a guy chucked a Subway foot-long at her head calling her 'a fat b***h' and how she watched her parents Ozzy and Sharon flatline and come back to life in new tell-all
In her new book, There Is No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Bada** B***h, Kelly Osbourne reveals the struggles of growing up in the shadow of her rock star dad
The 32-year-old admits she was unprepared for becoming a tabloid sensation for 'being fat' at the start of her family's 2002 MTV reality show, The Osbournes
The British star reveals her mother's cancer diagnoses took an emotional toll on the family, prompting her father to down handful of pills chased with vodka
Of her parents' health she says: ‘I watched both of them come out of surgery and flatline and die in front of me and get brought back to life’
Osbourne describes turning to drugs as they were the only thing that 'kept her going'
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PUBLISHED: 16:08 EST, 21 April 2017 | UPDATED: 23:20 EST, 21 April 2017
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Looking back at her life, 32-year old British star and former Fashion Police host Kelly Osbourne confesses how often she felt 'like complete and utter s**t about myself’ in her new tell-all book.
In an exclusive sneak peek of the memoir, Kelly reveals that what began in childhood as a monotonous journey on her father’s tour bus for his heavy metal band and time in the English countryside, turned into years that were ‘beyond fabulous' and sometimes 'agonizingly f****d up.'
‘I was a d**k,’ Osbourne admits. ‘Sometimes it made me cry hysterically, and sometimes I’d get so overwhelmed that I’d go into fits of pure rage,' the outspoken daughter of Ozzy Osbourne writes in her upcoming book, There is No F***ing Secret: Letters From a Bada** B***h.
There was so much drama that she acted out through what she calls her ‘inner diva – LizaBeth Taylor, a combination of Liza Minnelli and Elizabeth Taylor,’ but only when she had an audience.
Fuming: Kelly took to social media to blast the hair stylist, uploading tweets that read: 'Anyone looking for cheap chunky LOW-light and blow out and a b-----b call ..." before listing a phone number that has since been disconnected +7 Edit
Kelly Osbourne, pictured April 5 in Los Angeles, opens up about her struggles with drugs, living in the shadow of her rock star father, and being assaulted over her weight
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Self-doubts flooded her head erasing any feelings of pride for anything positive she had accomplished. She always told herself she didn’t deserve better.
‘Whenever something bad happened, like when my dad would start using again or mum was diagnosed with cancer, I was convinced that it was 100 percent my own fault, even if it was entirely out of my control’.
Sharon Osbourne was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2002 and Ozzy Osbourne’s reaction was to overdose on pills, all of it documented on the second season of their MTV reality series, The Osbournes.
‘Dad was there in his boxers, and I watched him scoop his hands into a bowl of pills, swallow a handful of something, and then wash it down with vodka’, she writes in her book.
The horrific scene continued on the ambulance ride to the hospital when Ozzy ‘leaned over to put his hand out to see if mum was breathing. Then he passed out with his hand over her mouth ...
'Ugly duckling to lavender swan’: She was once the girl parents warned their children about, but Kelly reveals now mothers stop her in the street to ask her for advice +7
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'Ugly duckling to lavender swan’: She was once the girl parents warned their children about, but Kelly reveals now mothers stop her in the street to ask her for advice
‘The EMTs tried to pull him off and, Dad, not knowing where he was or what he was doing, started to resist out of habit’.
Kelly begged the Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) not to call the police.
Each parent was taken to a separate hospital room. Ozzy was treated for alcohol and drug poisoning and Sharon received cancer treatment.
‘Dad could not handle the thought of losing Mum,’ she said.
I watched both [my parents] come out of surgery and flatline and die in front of me and get brought back to life
Kelly recalls the spotlight beginning for her when Joan Rivers interviewed her family on Father’s Day in 1991. She was six years old, yawned and scratched her genitals throughout the interview.
When the family agreed to invite MTV cameras into their lives for what was one of the first reality TV shows, The Osbournes in 2002, she suddenly became famous and admits she was unprepared for becoming a tabloid headline for being fat.
She got her driver’s license in Los Angeles and went for a drive with a girlfriend. En route to a favorite cafe, a cute guy began following them and pulled along side and signaled to roll the window down.
Kelly complied thinking he was going to ask for directions.
‘Instead, he threw a foot-long Subway sandwich in my window, which hit me on the side of my head and exploded. Then he called me fat b**h and sped off’.
Rock star image: The Osbournes (pictured in 2015) became famous for being the family of Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne but were also plagued by the dark side of fame +7
Rock star image: The Osbournes (pictured in 2015) became famous for being the family of Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne but were also plagued by the dark side of fame
Her friends suggested she call the police, but Kelly refused, thinking the cops would laugh if she told them she was assaulted with a Subway foot-long.
Things went from bad to worse with her mother having chemo treatments in a hospital in Los Angeles fighting for her life and Ozzy in a hospital in the U.K. in a coma after facing near death after an ATV accident.
‘I watched both of them come out of surgery and flatline and die in front of me and get brought back to life’.
She felt as if her world 'were crumbling,’ and she turned to drugs.
‘Drugs became my solace and --- if I’m being totally honest--- probably the only thing that kept me going’.
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‘With every pill I popped, I retreated more and more into my black hole of self-hatred’.
By her mid-twenties, the reality star had already been through years of therapy and multiple rehab centers +7
By her mid-twenties, the reality star had already been through years of therapy and multiple rehab centers
By her mid-twenties, she had been through years of therapy, multiple rehab centers and one mental institution –‘which worked, because it scared the s**t out of me’, she said.
Kelly finally was drug-free but she eventually replaced her drug habit with food.
To make her life seem worse, she was broke and had to move back in with her parents after six years of living on her own.
The nightmare continued when she woke up to the heavy footfalls of her father, ‘stomping around the house like Frankenstein’s monster’.
A big wake-up call soon followed when she was dining with some friends at Mr. Chow’s, an upscale Chinese restaurant in Beverly Hills and was approached by Kim Kardashian – before Kim became a reality star herself.
Kim approached Kelly and asked if she could help her and suggested that if Kelly ever needed anything, call her.
She was willing to take her to the gym, introduce her to trainers.
Kelly, who barely knew Kim, was grateful that she was offering help, and realized that Kim must have seen something was wrong. ‘I must have been f***ing miserable’.
‘It was time for me to get my s**t together, so I did’.
Kelly wasn’t going to go to the gym because she was too embarrassed to wear gym clothes and stand next to anyone with a good body...’when I had a little dumpling body.’
Kelly came in third place during her stint on Dancing with Stars in 2009 and reveals that the competition became another journey of self-discovery and believes it helped her become an adult +7
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Kelly always had a hard time ‘big-upping’ – as she writes – or respecting herself and she had taken more than her 'fair share of s**t' so one day she just decided, ‘F*** it, I’ll do it right now. That’s when I decided to call myself a bada** b***h.
Her mother, rock matriarch Sharon, taught her to always choose to be the b***h if you have only two options – choosing between being perceived as a b***h and take respobsibity for her actions or a w***e.
After the meet-up with Kardashian at Mr. Chow’s, Kelly signed on for Dancing with the Stars in 2009 for what became another journey of self-discovery and believing it helped her become an adult.
There is no f***ing secret: Letters from a bada** b***h will hit shelves on April 25 +7
There is no f***ing secret: Letters from a bada** b***h will hit shelves on April 25
She realized she was more than just the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.
‘I was a f***ed up ugly duckling who somehow emerged a lavender swan’.
She was once the girl mothers advised their daughters to stay away from, and now mothers were stopping her in the street to ask her for advice.
Kelly came in third place in Dancing with the Stars and began co-hosting E’s hot show, Fashion Police the following year in 2010 for five years.
She felt self-respect with her own career after years of feeling rejection and ‘being taunted as a worthless celebrity spawn’.
Kelly now feels she had defied everyone’s expectations as well as her own but she still cringes over an appearance on The View in August 2015 when she made a comment that was cut off and made her out to be a racist.
A guest co-host on the show at the time, she was talking about then-presidential hopeful Donald Trump when she sarcastically said: ‘If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?'
Co-host Rosie Perez interrupted her by saying ‘Latinos are not the only people doing that’.
Kelly insisted she didn’t mean it like that but the damage was done although
Kelly writes that The View issue has affected her life forever and she hates herself for saying it and resorting to sarcasm.
‘In my way of trying to defend a community of people that I do truly love, I managed to insult an entire race of people in this country’. It kills her that when you Google her name, ‘racist’ always come up first.
In her book, Kelly advises readers who are seeking a transformation to pull their head out of their a** and decide to change.
No one else is going to do it for you. No one’s perfect.
‘...find the bravery within yourself to show it to the world’.
It’s taken her decades and mishaps, years of therapy, to arrive at the conclusion that she no longer cares about being the prettiest girl in the room, or the smartest.
‘I just want to be me’ – a bada** b***h.
The ultimate lesson she learned: there is just no f***ing secret’.
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The TV personality and fashion designer addresses different aspects of her life through a series of
letters.Calling the writing of her new book "one of the most intense forms of therapy I have ever
experienced," Osbourne (Fierce, 2009), in her latest, covers a wide array of personal opinion and history.
Headstrong and unabashed, the author displays the same steely resolve in her writing, and she notes that
letters were, during a particularly dark time, the only communication she'd had with family and friends.
Osbourne opens with a missive to her inner filter, the one that has failed and seemingly sabotaged her from
Day 1. She then moves through the pains of being a celebrity's kid and thoughtful appreciations of friends,
her mother, Sharon, overprotective father, Ozzy, and brother, Jack. An especially tender section on
Osbourne's long, fond friendship with Joan Rivers is nicely juxtaposed with memories of Ozzfest (her
"sleepaway camp") and harrowing chapters on bullying and a full disclosure on how she lives with Lyme
disease. The author regrets the "innocent" decision to participate in MTV's The Osbournes, which thrust the
author "completely unprepared" into the celebrity spotlight only to be subjected to the cruel scrutiny of
social media. Osbourne is mostly successful in balancing her infrequent triumphs and stumbling blocks like
drug addiction and weight and self-esteem issues, which should prove empowering for younger readers.
Eventually, despite a cautionary warning, nonfans may tire of the barrage of defensive expletives, which
may seem necessary for an Osbourne book but become tedious. Still, readers who adore the unadulterated
Osbourne will devour her amusing and sometimes-scandalous anecdotes and applicable advice on life,
fashion, and self-acceptance. "I am living proof that with the right intentions, hard work, passion, and love
for what you do, nothing can stop you," she writes. A breezy, well-intentioned memoir for Osbourne fans.
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There Is No F*cking Secret: Letters from a
Badass Bitch
Kristine Huntley
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Apr. 2017. 256p. Putnam, $27 (9780399176562). 791.4.
Former wild child Osbourne, who grew up in the public eye after her family's MTV reality show, The
Osbournes, became a huge hit in 2002, chronicles the ups and downs of her youth in a series of letters
addressed to family and friends as well as to such entities as fashion, dating, and bullying. The Osbournes
made her a star in her teens, but after it ended, she battled drug addition and weight issues before finding
success as an E! Fashion Police cohost and a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. Osbourne observes that
her transformation from a teen struggling with drugs and body image issues to a confident and successful
young woman took years, but that the transformation seemed swift to outsiders because "people only pick
up on your journey when you arrive at your destination." With frank discussions about drug use, image, sex,
and bullying, Osbournes candid and engaging memoir will have special appeal to teens and young women
facing similar struggles, and every reader will find her hard-won confidence and sobriety inspiring.--
Kristine Huntley
YA: Osbourne's no-holds-barred honesty might resonate with teens, particularly those who have seen her on
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Kelly Osbourne's memoir There Is No F---ing Secret: We read it so you don't have to
EW STAFF April 25, 2017 AT 10:00 AM EDT
Kelly Osbourne‘s epistolary new memoir, There Is No F—ing Secret: Letters from a Badass Bitch, is told through a series of letters to various people (and… things) in her life, from her family, to her lavender hair, to her vagina. Here, we’ve rounded up the 11 most outrageous passages from the book — so you don’t have to read it yourself.
On the set of Fashion Police, the fastidious Joan Rivers always placed a paper toilet seat cover on the seat, then set it on fire (this, in her mind, got rid of all the germs).
“Once the plastic toilet seat caught on fire. It melted and shriveled into a misshapen plastic mass, but the E! Budgets being what they were, instead of buying a new one, they just took the toilet seat from the men’s room and gave the blokes a burnt one.”
There was just one rule on her dad Ozzy’s tour bus, and it had to do with the bathroom.
“NO S—TING!”
The parties her parents threw at the end of Ozzy’s tours were epic.
“I saw a stripper f— a lollipop and give it to my manny (male nanny) to suck on. Another lay on her back and dumped an entire two-liter bottle of water up her gearbox, stood up, then bent over and sprayed the crows… The cherry on the cake, and the most disgusting thing I ever saw, was a pregnant woman shooting her breast milk into people’s mouths for backstage entertainment.”
She has lots of famous friends.
“I remember once talking to Princess Beatrice in the powder room at one of Elton John’s parties, and she told me how she’d gotten grounded for taking the tube,” Osbourne writes. She also says Amy Winehouse was the “mischievous ringleader” of her social group.
She has plenty to say about fashion — especially about the time her mother bought her an extravagant Hermes Birkin bag.
“I never carried it. When she inquired about it, I explained that to me, the bag was simply a status symbol—not a fashion symbol. Mum asked if I wanted something else, and when I declined, she returned with the same bag, but this time it had patches sewn all over it. One of them read ‘Amateur Gynecologist.’ And just like that, the handbag had been transformed to something… that felt like me.”
In the letter she writes to her vagina, she reveals that she’s an enthusiastic waxer.
“Shortly after I dyed my hair lavender, Joan asked me if the carpet matched the drapes, and I told her there was no carpet.”
The day her mother, who had cancer, suffered a seizure and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, her father overdosed on drugs.
“[The paramedics] … decided not to call the police, but they said they were rushing Dad into detox as soon as they got to the hospital. They then handed me two zip-ties and I had to tie those gargantuan hands to a bar…so they could check his vitals and give him oxygen.”
She monitored her dad’s drug use via his handwriting.
“By the time I was a teenager, I could look at his handwriting and tell what drugs he was on — I wanted it to be sloppy, because that meant it was booze. If his letters were neat and tight, that meant something far, far worse.”
After her father’s ATV accident, he spent 14 days in a coma before regaining consciousness.
“It took him a couple of weeks to remember everyone else, but he knew who I was right away. Ha-ha, f—ers! I took him cheese and onion sandwiches and trifle, his favorite dessert, every day, and I knew he was going to be okay the day I showed up to see a bedpan flying out of the door of his room and hear him scream, ‘I can wipe my own ass, thank you very much!’”
She started using Botox in her 20s.
“I had frown lines crosshatching my forehead from squinting into the bright lights to read the monitors, and it gave me raging resting bitch face.”
Osbourne, who’s been clean for years, says she can’t count the number of times she detoxed.
“My first trip to rehab at 19 was a literal trip, after I was so f—ed up that I fell down on the living room floor and all my drugs came spilling out of my bag… My parents threw me into the back of an MTV production van, where the crew covered me with a blanket so they could sneak me past the paparazzi outside our house and take me to Promises Treatment Center in Malibu. I completely blacked out and didn’t come to until after I’d pissed myself in a chair in the waiting room at check-in.”
There Is No F*cking Secret: Letters from a Badass Bitch
Kelly Osbourne. Putnam, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-17656-2
For Osbourne (Fierce), there are no secrets to living one’s life other than being comfortable with oneself and, perhaps more importantly, being a badass when warranted. Osbourne, eager to both come out from under her famous parents’ shadows (her father is Ozzy Osbourne) and celebrate her nontraditional upbringing, structures this mostly successful and often powerful memoir in the form of letters to her parents, her inner filter (or lack thereof), and drug addictions. Fans wondering what it was like to grow up the daughter of heavy metal royalty should look elsewhere for sordid stories. This isn’t a tell-all. Osbourne is candid about her father’s addictions and the fact that she loves him in spite of it, and her terror over possibly losing her mother, Sharon, to cancer is palpable. Her trademark humor and coarse language are always in evidence, even when she’s discussing the bleakest of subjects, and this approach transforms what could have been just another celebrity story into something much more triumphant. Osbourne isn’t perfect and she isn’t trying to be; instead, she’s honest about her faults and victories, something much more difficult to pull off. (Apr.)
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