Final night time (Feb. 28), Sharon and Kelly Osbourne accepted Ozzy Osbourne’s posthumous Lifetime Achievement award the 2026 BRIT Awards. Whereas the night was meant to be an entirely joyous time, it’s since prompted quite a few damaging feedback about Kelly Osbourne’s look, prompting her to sentence the “cruelty” she’s just lately acquired.
What Did Kelly Osbourne Say?
Though she’s been met with loads of positivity and assist since her father handed away final July, she’s additionally been met with essential (to place it evenly) suggestions on her weight and different points of her look. As such, she’s responded to the negativity many instances already (together with final week), but mentioned negativity retains pouring in, so she’s as soon as once more taken to Instagram Tales to fireplace again at her critics.
Feedback corresponding to one particular person tweeting: “What is the cope with how tough Kelly Osbourne seems to be, it is fucking brutal!” absolutely led to Osbourne condemning the hate after final night time’s BRIT Awards.
Particularly, she posted the next to Instagram Tales:
There’s a particular sort of cruelty in harming somebody who’s clearly going via one thing. kicking me whereas I’m down, doubting my ache, spreading my struggles as gossip, and turning your again once I want assist and love most. None of it proves power; it solely reveals a profound absence of compassion and character. I’m presently going via the toughest time in my life. I mustn’t even need to defend myself. However I gained’t sit right here and permit myself to be dehumanized in such a method!
You possibly can see a screenshot of her put up under:
kelly osbourne instagram tales put up about cruelty following 2026 brit awards
Whether or not they’re coming from blatant disapproval or makes an attempt to indicate earnest concern (as some followers have recommended), Osbourne is clearly upset by the feedback, and she or he’ll seemingly preserve pushing again if and once they proceed.
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Extra About Ozzy Osbourne + the 2026 BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards ceremony itself appeared to be a heartwarming expertise for each Kelly and Sharon Osbourne.
Following a short introduction from Dolly Parton, each ladies took the stage, with Sharon Osbourne stating:
I’m honored to simply accept this award for my attractive husband. This Lifetime Achievement award. God is aware of I want he was right here to simply accept it himself, so that you’ve bought the booby prize. You’ve bought me doing it. I do know that Ozzy is trying down on us all and I do know what he’s pondering. He hated to make speeches. He hated listening to speeches, and he’d be saying, “Hey, missus, shut the fuck up. Simply say thanks and get off that stage.”
Additional into her speech, she additionally remarked: “The factor is that Ozzy was genuine. He was gifted [and] completely unpredictable. A wild man. He was a real artist.”
Sharon Osbourne continued:
He by no means felt that phrases had been sufficient to thank all people for the life that he was given and for the life that he led. To be trustworthy with you, he was probably the most humble egomaniac you may ever meet. And sure, on the finish of the day, he’ll all the time be a rock begin. We spent most of our lives touring the world, however Ozzy’s coronary heart by no means left England. Wherever we had been on the planet, he was all the time proud to be that working-class Brummie, and he by no means let anybody neglect it.
I’m accepting this [award] for Ozzy, however this award goes to his unimaginable household. It goes to so many musicians who helped Ozzy alongside the way in which. Nice, nice musicians. I need to particularly thank his crew that was all the time there and that by no means let him down. We had been blessed to have the most effective crew ever on the highway. And, hundreds of people that lined the streets of Birmingham to say goodbye, and naturally, the tens of millions of followers around the globe. He beloved them for giving him his extraordinary profession, and for his or her loyalty that they gave him. I do know that they beloved him again as a lot as he beloved them.
If Ozzy was right here tonight, with us, he could be exhibiting us that attractive smile that he had, and I do know he could be so proud to obtain this from the nation that he beloved. He might not be right here, however he left us one wonderful physique of labor that can by no means be forgotten by the nation that made him.
Afterward, Kelly Osbourne took the microphone and professed: “Thanks for loving my father as a lot as we do, and I hope I don’t disrespect Manchester by saying this, however ‘Up the Villa’ and Birmingham ceaselessly.”
Lastly, Sharon Osbourne took command once more, closing as follows: “Now, as Ozzy would say that the tip of each present, I like you all and God bless you. There’ll by no means be one other Ozzy fucking Osbourne and I like you. Thanks.”
Following their speeches, the BRIT Awards welcomed a number of artists linked to Ozzy Osbourne (singer Robbie Williams, guitarist Zakk Wylde, bassist Robert Trujillo, keyboardist Adam Wakeman and drummer Tommy Clufetos) to the stage for an incredible cowl of one among his largest solo songs: 1991’s “No Extra Tears.”
Different Osbourne Information
In associated information, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl just lately revealed that he’d as soon as written music for Ozzy Osbourne earlier than having it rejected and deciding to make use of it himself.
Actually, Grohl advised Kerrang! Radio that (as Loudwire reported on the time) he “determined to current one thing to Ozzy and the Osbourne household throughout a interval wherein Sharon Osbourne had reached out to different musicians to jot down songs for the legendary vocalist.” He additionally talked about that it “most likely occurred within the early 2000s.”
“I wrote this instrumental that was like tremendous … it was nearly like a Melvins music. It was like tremendous duper heavy. I believed this may very well be so cool if Ozzy sang over it. . . . They by no means picked it. They by no means used it. However I ended up utilizing it for this file that I made. It was known as Probot,” Grohl defined [via Loudwire].
Particularly, the music grew to become “Tortured Soul” from Grohl’s self-titled 20024 Probot album.
Elsewhere, Sharon Osbourne disclosed the creative methods she used to assist Ozzy avoid medicine and alcohol. Likewise, she confessed that Ozzy was advised he’d “most likely die” a number of weeks earlier than the July 2025 Again to the Starting live performance.
“However he wished to do it so dangerous. He wanted it. And it’s, like, ‘Whether or not I die in two weeks or I die in six months, I’m nonetheless dying. And I wanna go my method.’ And he did. He went like a rock star,” she advised the Dumb Blonde podcast [via Blabbermouth].
In case you missed it, a whole lot of individuals dressed up just like the late Prince of Darkness in New Orleans throughout this yr’s Mardi Gras parade. Plus, Jack Osbourne appeared on Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast final month and defined why Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi was the “the one particular person” that might ever inform problem Ozzy to “do higher.”
So, how do you are feeling concerning the feedback made about Kelly Osbourne, in addition to her response to them? Tell us!
The Osbourne Household on the 2026 Grammy Awards
Sharon Osbourne, Jack Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne and Slipknot’s Sid Wilson had been photographed collectively on the 2026 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Gallery Credit score: Lauryn Schaffner
