Kelly Osbourne Biography

Kelly Osbourne
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Kelly Osbourne

Kelly Osbourne attending "The 6th Annual Hollywood Style Awards" Beverly Hills, CA on Oct. 10, 2009
Background information
Birth name Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne
Born 27 October 1984 (1984-10-27) (age 25)
Westminster, London, England
Genres Pop rock, new wave revival, pop punk
Occupations Singer, actress, television personality, radio presenter, fashion designer
Instruments Vocals
Years active 2002–present
Labels Epic (2002–2003)
Sanctuary (2003–2007) Universal (2007-present)
Associated acts Ozzy Osbourne
Website Official website

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne (born 27 October 1984) is an English media personality, fashion designer, singer, actress, and model, known for being the daughter of Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne. She was thrust into the limelight after appearing on reality series The Osbournes with her family, for which they won a 2002 Emmy award for Outstanding Reality Program with her family. She has also appeared on the Dancing with the Stars,1 and made forays into music, acting, fashion, writing and radio presentation.

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Early life

Kelly Osborne was born in the City of Westminster, London. She has older sister Aimee and her younger brother Jack. She has two half-siblings: Jessica Hobbs and Louis John Osbourne from Ozzy's first marriage. She had an unofficially "adopted" brother, Robert Marcato, who Sharon and Ozzy took in after Marcato's mother died. Kelly grew up traveling with her father as he went on tour, and lived in more than 20 homes between the UK and the USA.2

Career

The Osbournes

Osbourne and the rest of her immediate family (without Aimee) were thrust into the international spotlight with the MTV reality show The Osbournes. It chronicled their day-to-day life, and the show became a hit for its portrayal of a dysfunctional, though close-knit, family where 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 around the age of sixteen, ending around the ages of eighteen or nineteen. 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.3

In March 2009 Osbourne returned to television with the rest of the Osbourne family on Osbournes: Reloaded.4 and was canceled later that same night due to the show being unsuitable for American TV

Music

Her debut album, Shut Up!, was released in 2002 to moderate American sales, but good European sales, which was debuted with Houston rock band Pure Rubbish at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards.5 Osbourne's 2002 debut with Epic Records, "Shut Up!", debuted at #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. The album was met with bad 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 #1 on the UK charts. 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".6 The album "Sleeping In The Nothing" was not without controversy, due to its reportedly heavily-altered album cover, in which Osbourne appeared slimmer,7 despite her previous assertions of being happy with her size.citation needed

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".8

Osbourne was forced to back out of her final performance in West End musical Chicago after the 31 October 2007 incident that injured her back. She later went on to win theatre actress of the year at the glamour awards in the UK. On the same night, she attended the Sony Radio Academy Awards, where she was nominated for the Rising Star Award in which she did not win.

Osbourne wants to get back in the studio and work on her third studio album. Her previous album was released four years ago, and she said that after taking a break from music, she wants to do it right this time. On her twitter page, Kelly wrote that she had just finished a track she was working on in her fathers studio, she describes it as sounding very '90s, she wants to start working on new tracks with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris and has revealed she is working on a collaboration with a mystery pop star, her new musical direction is a more gentler sound than her first record "Shut Up/Changes", but is still reminiscent of her second electronic sounding LP "Sleeping in the nothing. She hasn't yet confirmed details of a new record or release dates.

Acting

Osbourne made her debut as an actress with a starring role on 7 October 2004 on the ABC high school teen drama Life As We Know It, where she played the supporting role of Deborah Beatrice Tynan. In June 2006, Osbourne played the role of Wendy from Peter Pan in The Queen's Handbag. In 2006, Osbourne provided a voice for the animated film Live Freaky Die Freaky. In July 2007, it was announced Osbourne was to take on the role of prison matron Mama Morton in the musical drama Chicago.9 Her seven-week run (from 10 September) in the musical at the Cambridge Theatre would be her stage debut, London's The Stage performing arts weekly reported.10

In 2008 she features 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 is set to debut in late summer at the Portobello Film Festival. Osbourne will be starring alongside David Chokachi and Brooke Hogan in horror movie Devour, set for US release in 2010. The film is currently in post production. 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.1112

In January 2010 Osbourne will reportedly begin filming a 16 episode TV drama named Hollywood Forever, co-starring Josh Henderson and Audrina Patridge based on the novel The Truith About Diamonds by Nicole Richie.

Presenting

Since her rise to fame, Osbourne has been called on to present for various events. 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 Movie 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.

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.13

In January 2007, Osbourne began presenting Project Catwalk for Sky1. 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".

She appeared in Dancing with the Stars as a contestant, September through November, 2009.

Osbourne has presented on The Surgery with Kelly Osbourne on BBC Radio 1.

Fashion

After her appearance on the reality show, Osbourne quickly began to be noted for her varied and trendy style among fashion commentators like Steven Cojocaru1415 In 2004, Osbourne launched her own fashion line, Stiletto Killers,16 with her friend and former AA 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.

In 2006, Osbourne became the face of the high street chain Accessorize in a campaign which was seen across Europe, Canada, Russia, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and the Middle East. In the spring of that year, Osbourne modeled for Heatherette in a catwalk show which also featured Naomi Campbell.

Writing

On September 1, 2009, Osbourne released her 1st autobiography: Fierce via Virgin Books.17 Though the book contains autobiography elements, it also has been written to give people advice, strength and guidance through tough periods. By September 9 2009 the book has reached no. 1 on many of Amazon's charts (music, film, television, styles and biography), and a current peak of 17 on the bestsellers chart. Kelly will be on a book tour of the UK to promote the book throughout September before returning to the states for her appearance on `DWTS.` As of September 2009 she will write a weekly column giving advice and celebrity gossip in UK magazine closer.

Personal life

Osbourne sports many tattoos all over her body, including a skull-and-crossbones design on both feet, small angel wings on her back, an outlined star on the back of her neck, a tiny pink heart on her hip, a ship's anchor on the back of her left forearm, a tiny pink heart on her little finger (the same as ex-boyfriend Bert McCracken), a padlock and key with the word "Daddy" above it, a musical keyboard on the back of her right forearm, and the name of her brother, Jack, on her wrist.a[›]

On 2 April 2004, Osbourne entered the Malibu rehab facility Promises after admitting to family that she was addicted to painkillers.18 Over a year later, on June 2, she checked into Las Encinas Hospital, a drug treatment center in Pasadena, California after a relapse.19 She entered another drug treatment facility in January 200920; she stayed for a month and later acknowledged that she had suffered a relapse of her addiction to painkillers.21 After 30 days Kelly was released and has been quoted that this was the first time she really thought it had helped her.22

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.23 She later went on to date Matt Emerson, drummer from rock band Trash Fashion24 She also dated the Used frontman Bert McCracken and New Found Glory lead guitarist Chad Gilbert.

She is now engaged to model Luke Worrall.25 She has hinted that she will be getting married within the next year.

On January 19, 2009, Osbourne was arrested for assault after allegedly slapping a journalist at a club in August 2008. Osbourne was reportedly angry that the journalist, Zoe Griffin, had reported that Osbourne's fiance, the model Luke Worrell, did not know how an earthquake occurred.26

At an HIV charity benefit in February 2007, Kelly revealed that the event was special to her because one of her family members was HIV positive; she didn't specify whom.27 It was later revealed that it was her cousin Terry Longden of the reality show The Salon.28

Discography

Albums

Year Album Peak chart positions
UK AUS GER FIN US US Heat US Elec.
2002 Shut Up 31 100 30 16 101 1 —
2003 Changes — — — — — — —
2005 Sleeping in the Nothing
  • Released: 7 June 2005
  • Label: Sanctuary Records
 57 — — — 117 2 2
"—" denotes the album failed to chart or not released

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US US Pop 100 US Dance UK AUS CAN
2002 "Papa Don't Preach" 74 — — 3 3 6 Shut Up
2003 "Shut Up" — — — 12 34 18
"Come Dig Me Out" — — — — — —
"Changes" (with Ozzy Osbourne) — — 43 1 — 7 Changes
2005 "One Word" 121 82 1 9 38 19 Sleeping in the Nothing
"Redlight" — — 40 73 — —
"—" denotes the single failed to chart or not released

DVDs

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
2006 Live Freaky! Die Freaky! Sharon Hate
2008 The Town That Boars Me Model judge
2010 Devour Reagan French

Television

Year Title Role
2002 - 2005 The Osbournes Kelly Osbourne
2003 The Sharon Osbourne Show Kelly Osbourne / Host 1 week
2004 Life As We Know It Deborah Tynan
2006 Kelly Osbourne: Turning Japanese Kelly Osbourne
2006 I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Kelly Osbourne / Host
2007 - 2008 Project Catwalk Kelly Osbourne / Host
2009 Osbournes: Reloaded Kelly Osbourne
2009 Hotel Babylon Jo
2009 Dancing With the Stars Herself/contestant
2010 Hollywood Forever Unknown (Rumored)

Awards and nominations

See also

Notes

^ a: Jack also sports a matching 'Kelly' tattoo on his wrist.

References

  1. ^ Joyce Eng (17 August 2009). "Dancing with the Stars 2009 Season 9 Cast Revealed!". TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/Dancing-Stars/Dancing-Stars-2009-1009007.aspx. Retrieved 17 August 2009. 
  2. ^ No byline (1 July 2002), "In the Pink". People. 58 (1):60
  3. ^ Eliscu, Jenny (12 December 2002), "Kelly Osbourne". Rolling Stone. (911):76
  4. ^ ""Osbournes: Reloaded on Fox"". http://www.fox.com/osbournes. Retrieved 23 March 2009. 
  5. ^ Orecklin, Michele (28 October 2002), "WE'RE ON THE LIST". Time. 160 (18):73
  6. ^ Mason, Kerri (25 June 2005), "Peterson, Tommy Boy Immersed In African Sounds". Billboard. 117 (26):42
  7. ^ Admitted on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Episode #8.8, Friday 13 May 2005.
  8. ^ "KELLY OSBOURNE: 'I AM NOT QUITTING MUSIC'" Contactmusic.com
  9. ^ Byline unknown (31 July 2007), "Kelly Osbourne stages raid on West End". Daily Telegraph. 47 (324):6
  10. ^ The Stage, London, 1 August 2007.Retrieved on 4 August 2007.
  11. ^ Portobello Spy: Portobello Film Festival
  12. ^ YouTube - The Town That Boars Me coming soon
  13. ^ ""Kelly Osbourne Turning Japanese" (2007)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972540/. Retrieved 3 January 2008. 
  14. ^ Kim, Maggie; McIntyre, Samantha; Reiffel,, Gabrielle; Sparks, Sarajane (28 April 2003), "Who's That Girl?" People. 59 (16):124
  15. ^ Cojocaru, Steven (22 September 2003), "CHAMELEONS". People. 60 (12):93-96
  16. ^ Clehane, Diane; Gage, Eleni; Lombardo, Jen; Martin, Jill; McIntyre, Samantha; Tan, LiLi (28 February 2005), "Behind The Seam". People. 63 (8):122
  17. ^ http://www.kellyosbourne.com/book.asp
  18. ^ Adkins, Greg; Wong, Marisa; Wren, Jennifer; Cotliar, Sharon; Daly, Sean; Herbst, Diane; Mandel, Susan; Mandel, Kwala; Nussbaum, Gail; Posnak, Sandy; Rubin, Courtney; Stueven, Michele; Wang, Cynthia; Wihlborg, Ulrica (19 April 2004), "KELLY GOES TO REHAB". People. 61 (15):20
  19. ^ No byline (30 June 2005), "Reznor's Court Victory". Rolling Stone. (977/978):28
  20. ^ Kelly O Checks in Rehab TMZ.com, 23 January 2009
  21. ^ Kelly Osbourne: If I didn't Get Help, I Would Have Died People, March 20, 2009
  22. ^ www.kellyosbourne.com
  23. ^ Kelly Osbourne Not Married 1 February 2007
  24. ^ Mail Online. 29 November 2007; Kelly Osbourne's mystery rocker revealed at last; retrieved 11 February 2009
  25. ^ Kelly Osbourne plans long engagement to parents' relief, hellomagazine.com, March 27, 2009
  26. ^ Kelly Osbourne Arrested for Assault People.com, 19 January 2009
  27. ^ "Kelly reveals Osbournes' HIV secret". 18 February 2007. http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/paOsbourneMon03OsbourneHIV.html. Retrieved 22 February 2007. 
  28. ^ "HIV Positive Family Member Revealed.". 28 February 2007. http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/02/27/kelly_osbourne_s_cousin_clears_up_hiv_my. Retrieved 28 February 2007. 

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