Ozzy Osbourne Appears On Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
Everyone’s favourite rocker Ozzy Osbourne makes a welcome return visit to BBC One’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross tonight.
Ozzy reminisces about his podbike accident which happened just days after his last appearance on the show: “I can’t remember what happened, my heart stopped twice, the first thing I remember was seven days later – but I was only going at three miles an hour! I always used to say I’m going to die by the time I’m 40, I always thought something like that would happen to me.”
He also talks about the effect on his family of their TV fame: “Overnight they (Jack and Kelly) were celebrities and didn’t know how to handle it. [Now] Jack’s great, he goes round and lectures in schools, tells them his story, young people can relate to him.
“At the beginning [the TV show] was great fun but then it got really tiring. You’d get a creepy feeling there was a camera around you all the time even when there wasn’t.”
He also talks about the burglary at their Buckinghamshire mansion: “I sleepwalk a lot, I was naked, there was this guy bent down. I thought ‘am I dreaming’? Like a fool I ran at him and then thought ‘now what’, so I just let him go, but then you go around checking everything 15 times.’
And on his 25-year marriage and his relationship with Sharon … and their 16 dogs; “Take them for walks? I’ve only just learnt to walk again! We have six dogs in bed with us … Minnie stayed by Sharon’s side for nine months when she had cancer … [now] they’ve replaced the kids.”
This week’s line–up also includes Freema Agyeman, aka Martha Jones, Doctor Who’s new time–travelling companion, who talks about how she got the role: “I had a small part before, I got cyber–ised … when I got an audition I thought it was for Torchwood, they only told me it was Doctor Who just before the screen test.”
And how she felt about filling Billie Piper’s shoes: “She did a tremendous job, she was intrinsic to it, Rose hasn’t been forgotten.”
There’s also chat with The Friday Night Project host Justin Lee Collins, and there’s music from Ozzy performing I Just Can’t Stop from his album Black Rain.
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, 10.35 pm, Friday 25 May 2007, BBC One

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