Reality star fights back tears over dad's heartbreaking terminal cancer diagnosis as he admits he wanted to quit filming
In a heartbreaking interview, the reality star turned documentary maker revealed he wanted to quit filming his new show after he saw his father cry for the first time ever.
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Geordie shore star Nathan Henry fights back tears over his dad's heartbreaking terminal cancer diagnosis
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Fighting back tears Nathan opened up about how he would feel if a younger version of himself watched the docuseries
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The reality star turned documentary maker revealed he wanted to quit filming after he saw his father cry
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The 34-year-old is fronting an emotional documentary about him and his dad Glen, who is currently living with a stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
Called Geordie Stories: Nathan and Dad, the docuseries will follow the TV star as he embarks on a life-changing journey with his father.
Speaking about the show, Nathan revealed that he almost quit filming after he saw his dad cry for the first time in his life.
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He said: "When my dad cried, that's when I was like, he's not done TV before and the first TV show he's gonna do he's crying and I've never seen him cry, I'm like am I doing the right thing here?
'Afterwards I asked him if he wanted to stop and he was like, no, I want to do this to help people, he is as much in this as I am and he wants to help people.
'So I was like, I have no right now to stop this, he's got cancer, he wants to share his story. There's no going back."
Nathan revealed how putting his and his father's story out there has helped many fans.
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He said: "When I talked on Geordie Shore about my dad's diagnosis, when that clip went out on TikTok the amount of messages I got and the feedback I got online was so many people going through the same thing.
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'And I think that in itself just kept me going because there was so many people going through this that if I've got a platform to talk about it and create awareness, why am I not using it to that advantage?
'I think doing that, seeing how vulnerable my dad was gonna be, it was just a no brainer to just give this my all and then the more I put into it, the more people are gonna get out of it.
Fighting back tears Nathan then opened up about how he would feel if a younger version of himself watched the docuseries.
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He began: 'Younger me would never in his life ever have dreamed that this would never have been something [...] Oh my god this is probably the only question that's going to make me emotional.
'Just younger me would never have ever dreamed that this is something that would have been possible.
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Geordie Stories: Nathan and Dad will follow the TV star as he embarks on a life-changing journey with his father
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The four-part series will offer 'a rare and emotional look at black father-son relationships'
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'I didn't think it would ever be a reality like one, younger me would never have thought of coming out to my dad.
'I would never imagine that I'd be in a position where I might no longer have my dad and I would never have imagined myself doing stuff like this.
'So I think if younger me and me were sat in a room and I was like, we've just done a documentary with my dad about his cancer and you came out to him and everything, I probably wouldn't believe him.
'I'd be like, I think you're lying so I'm glad I've actually managed to do something."
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The four-part series will offer "a rare and emotional look at black father-son relationships through a lens of vulnerability, heritage and identity," according to the show description.
"Audiences will follow Nathan and Glen to
Episode one of GEORDIE STORIES: NATHAN AND DAD launches on the 3rd July with a new episode every week on
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Irish Examiner
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- Irish Examiner
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His voice was not pretty but it was impossible to ignore as it sliced through Sabbath's dense sludge of drums, bass and fuzz-toned guitar. 'Sabbath never set out to be legendary,' Ozzy Osbourne said in 2005. 'The only thing we set out to do was scare people.' Black Sabbath in 1970: Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, and Ozzy Osbourne. Sabbath were a hit straight out of the blocks with their debut album, Black Sabbath (1970), which sailed into the UK Top 10 and reached 23 on the US Billboard chart, despite a hostile response from rock critics. Later that year they released the follow-up, Paranoid, which topped the British chart. Its tough and edgy title song gave them their only British Top 10 single (it went to No 4), while ''Iron Man' and the outspokenly political 'War Pigs' became staples of the Sabbath catalogue, each featuring a distinctive Iommi guitar riff. The band's hot streak continued through the albums Master of Reality (1971), Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) and Sabotage (1975), but Never Say Die! (1978) signalled Ozzy Osbourne's departure and the end of Sabbath mark one. Following some chaotic touring and abortive recording sessions, he was fired in 1979. An alcohol-and-cocaine lifestyle coupled with legal squabbles with their management and record label had sapped the band's strength. 'I was drinking like a fish for two years,' he said. 'I would have been dead in two or three years if I'd carried on.' Black Sabbath were managed by the notably unsentimental music mogul Don Arden, who assigned his daughter, Sharon, to keep Ozzy sufficiently acquainted with the straight and narrow to be able to write songs and perform. She became his manager and, in 1982, his wife. She launched him as a solo artist, leading his own band, The Blizzard of Ozz, which featured the gifted guitarist and songwriter Randy Rhoads. When Warner Bros and EMI turned Ozzy down as a solo artist, Sharon signed him to her father's label, Jet. Ozzy's solo career was immediately successful, his debut album, Blizzard of Ozz (1980), producing a couple of hit singles with 'Crazy Train' and 'Mr Crowley', the latter inspired by the occultist Aleister Crowley. The follow-up, Diary of a Madman (1981), was another bestseller – in his autobiography, I Am Ozzy (2010), Osbourne cited this as his favourite album — and contained the drug-inspired hit single 'Flying High Again'. Ozzy Osbourne in his open air hot tub in the garden of his luxury home in Goldwater Canyon, Beverly Hills, California biting the head of a rubber chicken. Picture: Getty Images However, Osbourne's progress was rarely incident-free, and, marriage aside, 1982 was a particular annus horribilis. In January that year, when he was perfoming in Des Moines, Iowa, an audience member threw what Osbourne took to be a rubber bat onstage, whereupon he bit its head off only to discover that the creature was real flesh and blood. He was forced to seek precautionary treatment for rabies. The following month, he was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, after urinating on the Alamo cenotaph. As a police officer remarked, 'Son, when you piss on the Alamo, you piss on the state of Texas.' Osbourne was banned from performing in the city until 1992, when he made a public apology and donated $10,000 to maintaining the monument. In March 1982, Rhoads was killed in Florida while joyriding in a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft, which crashed. The albums Bark at the Moon (1983), The Ultimate Sin (1986) and No Rest for the Wicked (1988) carried Osbourne through the 1980s on a surging tide of sales, but controversy was never far away. 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RTÉ News
2 days ago
- RTÉ News
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The Irish Sun
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- The Irish Sun
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WHILE anyone alive in the noughties may feel like they know the kids of Ozzy Osbourne well, they have merely scratched the surface. The Osbournes became household names after bursting onto our TVs, and yet while Ozzy was already famous, many came to know all about Sharon, Kelly and Jack. 9 Ozzy bid farewell to fans at a gig at Aston Villa Park in July 2025 Following the But many fans of the Black Sabbath frontman will be shocked to know that two of his children were absent from the letter. How many kids did Ozzy Osbourne have? Ozzy Osbourne had six children from two marriages, with many of them carving out their careers in the entertainment industry. Leaving behind his legacy as a rock legend, Ozzy's memory lives on through his children. READ MORE OZZY OSBOURNE But who are the kids of Ozzy Osbourne and where are they now? Who are Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's children? Fans of the Osbourne clan will be familiar with the family dynamic between Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack. However, Ozzy and Sharon had three children together. Born in London , moved to California as kids where they grew up. Most read in Music 9 The Osbournes ran for three years on MTV Kelly Osbourne Following the end of The Osbournes, Kelly forged her own career as a singer and songwriter. During her career she has released a UK number 1 single, with Changes featuring a duet with Ozzy, and also a cover of Papa Don't Preach which hit number 3 in the charts. 9 Along with stints as a presenter on Australia's Got Talent, Project Runway Junior, Fashion Police, she also appeared on Dancing with the Stars. As a result, she has amassed an estimated net worth of $16million. 9 The newly engaged couple met in 1999. Credit: Getty Since January 2022, she has been dating Splitknot turntablist , who in early July 2025 finally popped the question. Following Ozzy Osbourne's farewell gig in Aston, Birmingham, earlier this month, to add to an already , getting down on one knee after over three years together. How Kelly Osbourne battled cheating scandal & two broken engagements to find love with 'best friend' … and why proposal raises red flags for future marriage The couple already have a child together, Sidney, born on November 6, 2022. Jack Osbourne Jack is the youngest of the Osbourne children and was born on November 8, 1985. Having featured on The Osbournes at the age of 17, he has continued to work in TV. 9 The youngest Osbourne has fronted paranormal shows Jack Osbourne's Haunted Homecoming, as well as programmes such as Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie and Saving Planet Earth on the BBC . Jack revealed in early July 2025 that a big-screen biopic around the Black Sabbath frontman was on the way. said: 'We have the film on the way. We have a lot of good momentum on the Ozzy biopic. 'It's going to be raw." Jack has been married twice, firstly to Lisa Stelly in 2012, whom he divorced in 2019. After his marriage to Lisa ended, he married From the marriages, he has three daughters - Pearl, Andy and Aimee Osbourne Despite not 9 Kelly Osbourne and Aimee Osbourne pictured together Credit: Getty She has done voiceover work and appeared in Postman Pat: The Movie. In 2021, Kelly admitted she was estranged from Aimee on Dax Shepherd's She said: "we're just really different. She doesn't understand me and I don't understand her." Who are Ozzy's other children? Before becoming one half of the music industry power couple, Ozzy was married to former teacher Thelma Riley. 9 Ozzy Osbourne pictured with his two eldest biological children Credit: Getty The pair met in the 1960s and were married for 11 years. Elliot Kingsley Before marrying Ozzy, Thelma had a five-year-old son called Elliot. Ozzy later adopted Elliot, but he was one of the two names missing from the signed statement following his Not much is known about Elliot Kingsley as he tends to keep out of the spotlight with no public social media accounts. Jessica Osbourne Jessica is the oldest of Ozzy's biological children and was the first to give her father grandchildren. 9 Jessica is an actress Credit: Instagram She was born in 1972, one year after her parents married. The Broadway performer who lives in New York has three children: Isabelle, Kitty and Harry. She was also missing from the statement. Louis Osbourne Louis Osbourne is the second eldest and was born in 1975. He is a DJ and can still be seen with the rest of the Osbourne clan at momentous occasions. 9 Louis (right), with the Osbourne family at Ozzy's Hollywood Walk of Fame unveiling Credit: AP He married actress Louise Lennon in 2004. Osbourne was unable to attend his first son's wedding, following a
