The Moment
Some stories about celebrity families feel manufactured. This one doesn’t. Jack Osbourne says he was able to tell his dad, the late rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, that his wife Aree Gearhart is pregnant with their second child before Ozzy died in July.
In a recent interview, Jack shared that Aree is about seven months along with what will be his fifth child overall. The couple already share daughter Maple, 3, and Jack has three older daughters – Pearl, 13, Andy, 10, and Minnie, 7 – with ex-wife Lisa Stelly.
Jack, 40, called the pregnancy “partly a healthy distraction, partly healing – probably in that kind of ‘full cycle’ category, in a weird way.” In other words, life literally showed up on the doorstep while the family was saying goodbye to its loudest, wildest member.
He said the baby came a little earlier than they’d planned – “It’s definitely something that we were wanting to pursue and somehow it happened, miraculously” – and he and Aree, 34, are “super excited.”
The family recently honored Ozzy on what would have been his 77th birthday with a tribute at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Fans saw flowers spelling out “Ozzy,” a heart with angel wings, and a wooden plaque reading, “We love you daddy,” signed by four of his kids: Louis, Aimee, Kelly, and Jack.
Another plaque from Sharon Osbourne read, “Happy Birthday my darling. Eternal love, Sharon.” It’s the softest, quietest setting you can imagine for a man the world knew as the Prince of Darkness.
The Take
I don’t know about you, but this one hits in that spot where pop culture and real life grief collide. We’ve watched the Osbournes bicker, curse, and shuffle around in fuzzy slippers for decades. Now we’re watching the part nobody can script: the moment when a son gets one last piece of happy news to his dad before the lights go out.
Jack’s description of the pregnancy as a “healthy distraction” from grieving is painfully honest. If you’ve ever lost someone and welcomed a new baby around the same time, you know it’s not a Hallmark movie. It’s more like standing in a doorway with one foot in a funeral home and one in a nursery.
What really lands, though, is how it reframes Ozzy. The public version is the bat-biting, mumbling metal icon. Jack’s version is “funny, and weird and awkward and clumsy and just hilarious and so insightful,” and very much aware of everything going on. Translation: the guy we laughed at on reality TV knew exactly what was happening around him – including another grandchild on the way.
There’s also something quietly radical about a famous “bad boy” rocker whose legacy, in the end, is a pile of grandkids and a son talking openly about therapy, sobriety, and healing. The old rock-star model was groupies and chaos. The new one, apparently, is stroller shopping and YouTube reflections on your dad’s inner life.
If the Osbournes taught us anything, it’s that you can be totally unhinged and deeply loyal at the same time. This baby news feels like the final episode of a very long season: Ozzy gets to leave knowing his family is expanding, and Jack gets to tuck one last good memory into all the hard ones.
Receipts
Confirmed:
- Jack Osbourne says his wife Aree is about seven months pregnant with their second child, which will be his fifth overall.
- He shared that he told Ozzy about the pregnancy before Ozzy’s death in July, and called it “partly a healthy distraction, partly healing.”
- Ozzy Osbourne died after a years-long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
- The family marked what would have been Ozzy’s 77th birthday with a floral tribute at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star, including plaques from his children and from Sharon.
- In a September YouTube video, Jack described his father as “deeply complicated,” “funny,” “weird,” “awkward,” “clumsy,” “hilarious” and “so insightful,” and said Ozzy was more aware than people realized.
Unverified / Reported:
- Exact timelines and private conversations about when and how Jack told Ozzy the baby news are based on Jack’s own recollections in interview and video, which we have no reason to doubt but can’t independently replay.
Backstory (For Casual Readers)
If you remember flipping channels in the early 2000s and suddenly landing in a house full of bleeps and barking dogs, that was The Osbournes. Ozzy – frontman of Black Sabbath and solo metal icon – became an unlikely reality-television dad alongside wife Sharon and kids Jack and Kelly. Their eldest daughter Aimee stayed off-camera by choice.
Behind the jokes and chaos was a family dealing with addiction, health scares, and fame fatigue in real time. In later years, Ozzy went public with his Parkinson’s diagnosis, and his appearances became rarer as his health declined. Jack, meanwhile, grew into the responsible one: sober, co-parenting three daughters with ex-wife Lisa Stelly, and then building a new life with stylist Aree Gearhart, with whom he welcomed Maple in 2022.
So when Ozzy died in July after years of health struggles, fans weren’t just mourning a rock god. They were grieving the messy, funny dad they felt like they’d lived with – and now, watching his kids navigate the “after.”
What’s Next
Jack and Aree’s baby is due early next year, which means the Osbourne clan is about to welcome another little one into the mix of cousins and siblings already running around. You can expect a sentimental birth announcement – this is a family that puts its feelings right out front – and, very likely, a nod to Ozzy baked into how they talk about the new arrival.
Jack has already used his platforms to process his dad’s death and share stories about who Ozzy really was behind closed doors. As the baby arrives, don’t be surprised if we see more of that: reflections on fatherhood, grandparenthood, and what it means to raise kids in a house that still echoes with someone else’s laugh.
For now, the most moving part is simple: Ozzy knew. In a family famous for turning everything into a show, that one quiet fact might be the most meaningful episode they never filmed.
Your turn: When it comes to celebrity families, does seeing these real moments of grief and new life make you feel closer to them, or would you rather they kept it all private?
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