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Ozzy Osbourne Was Known as ‘The Prince of Darkness' for a Reason: All of His OMG Moments

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Ozzy Osbourne's life on and off the stage was filled with countless OMG moments. Throughout his career, the Black Sabbath member kept fans guessing with what he was going to say — and do — next. Over the years, Osbourne made headlines for reportedly stripping in Germany, painting his nose purple and accidentally peeing on an unmarked police car during a late night in Tennessee. Some of his memorable antics were even featured on the MTV reality show, The Osbournes, which documented Osbourne's life with his family. Celebrity Deaths of 2025: Anne Burrell, Kim Woodburn and More Stars We've Lost This Year 'The reality show wasn't anything different than our regular life, because that's the way we are anyway,' he told Spin magazine in December 2023. 'We didn't become the Osbournes that you see just for the show. That's the way we are, and all they did was take funny bits out of it.' While life understandably slowed down for Osbourne once he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2019, the musician lived life to the fullest until news broke of his death on Tuesday, July 22. 'He was with his family and surrounded by love,' Osbourne's family shared in a statement to Us Weekly. 'We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.' Keep reading to learn more about some of Osbourne's wildest moments over his lifetime: Ozzy Osbourne Receives the 'Prince of Darkness' Nickname Inspired by the horror genre, Osborne's rock group wrote the song "Black Sabbath," which became the title track of the band's 1970 debut album. According to Osbourne, fans' reactions to the song's sound helped launch his unique nickname. "When we started gigging way back when, as soon as we started playing this song's opening chords, young girls in the audience would ... freak out," Osbourne told NME in 2016. "They thought we were Satan's ... friends or something.' 'That's when the whole Prince Of Darkness s*** started,' he continued. 'When people get excited about Halloween coming around each year, all I think is, 'Well, we used to have Halloween every f***ing night.'' Kelly Osbourne's Quotes About Dad Ozzy Osbourne's Illness Before His Death: 'My Biggest Fear' Ozzy Osbourne Bites a Bat During a visit to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1982, Osbourne somehow found himself biting off a bat's head. 'I thought it was one of those rubber bats,' he recalled on an episode of Night Flight. 'I picked it up and it was a real bat, you know?' When asked if the bat was alive when Osbourne picked it up, he replied it was 'until I bit the head off it.' In the 1992 documentary Don't Blame Me: The Tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Osbourne said he needed to get medical attention after the incident. 'The guy said, 'We better give you some precautionary rabies shots,'' he recalled. 'I had one in each rear, one in each arm, and one in the top of my leg – and I had to have that every night.' Ozzy Osbourne Visits the White House While attending the 2002 White House Correspondents' Dinner, Osbourne was thrilled to receive a shoutout from President George W. Bush. "Washington power brokers, celebrities, Hollywood stars, Ozzy Osbourne,' the president said when describing the crowd, before the musician stood on a table and started blowing kisses. Bush later joked, 'OK, Ozzy. Might have been a mistake." How Many Children Does Ozzy Osbourne Have? Meet the Late Rocker's Kids With Sharon and Thelma Riley Ozzy Osbourne Throws TV Out the Hotel Window In March of 2020, the Black Sabbath singer pushed a 50-inch TV set through a ninth-floor window of a Four Seasons in Prague. 'I ripped the television off the wall,' he recalled on his Boneyard radio show. 'It landed on the floor and f***ing exploded. It went like a bomb. … I had to pay three months for the room and the repair of the f***ing window.' Ozzy Osbourne's Love of Shaving Off Eyebrows According to Slade musician Noddy Holder, Osbourne came up with an idea of shaving people's eyebrows if they dozed off in the lounge of a tour bus. 'Ozzy Osbourne started that!' Holder shared on Planet Rock radio. 'If you passed out with Ozzy — whether you were drinking or whatever — he would shave your eyebrows. I could always keep up with Ozzy, so he never did it to me, but quite often he'd shave people's eyebrows. Of course, when they wake up in the morning and they look in the mirror, they know there's something wrong, but they don't realise their eyebrows have gone.' Ozzy Osbourne Throws Meat on His Audiences When concertgoers attended one of Osbourne's concerts, they were in for a literal show. 'I always liked old movies that used to have these custard-pie fights,' Osbourne explained in The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne documentary. 'It gave me this idea to throw, instead of pie, bits of meat and animal parts into the audience. I thought it was hilarious. [They'd throw back] sheep testicles, live snakes, dead rats, all kinds of things. Someone once threw a live frog onto onstage. It was the biggest frog I'd ever seen, and it landed on its back.' The Black Sabbath member ultimately got tired of the trend and explained, 'It got to the point where people expected me to do crazier and crazier things. … It ain't fun when you get them rabies shots.' Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne's Family Album Ozzy Osbourne Was Arrested for Urinating on Alamo Cenotaph In February 1982, Osbourne was arrested on charges of public intoxication after he allegedly emptied his full bladder on the Alamo Cenotaph, a national monument in San Antonio, Texas. Osbourne was banned from playing in San Antonio until he made a public apology to the city and donated $10,000 to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the organization that maintains the Alamo grounds, in 1992. 'We all have done things in our lives that we regret,' Ozzy said at the time via Loudwire. 'I am deeply honored that the people of San Antonio have found it in their hearts to have me back. I hope that this donation will show that I have grown up.' Ozzy Osbourne Bites the Heads Off 2 Doves In March 1981, Osbourne attended a record meeting and was supposed to release doves in a grand gesture of peace. Band member Rudy Sarzo later revealed that Osbourne actually bit the heads off of two birds. 'He puts his hand in his pocket, pulls out another bird, looks at it and he just goes and bites the head off again — right in front of me!' Sarzo recalled to Yahoo. 'I gross-out, and he just laughs and keeps walking." Ozzy Osbourne Once Snorted Ants Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee recalled a 1984 incident when Osbourne allegedly snorted a line of ants in an effort to prove he was the wildest man of them all. "Full-on true,' Lee said on an August 2024 episode of 'This Past Weekend With Theo Von' podcast. 'I know people ask that all the time. They're, like, 'Dude, really?' I'm, like, abso-f***ing-lutely. You can't make that s*** up." Stars React After Ozzy Osbourne's Death at Age 76: Lady Gaga, Adam Sandler and More Ozzy Osbourne Kills 17 Cats At the height of his alcohol and drug addictions, Osbourne recalled the moment he killed more than a dozen innocent cats. 'I was taking drugs so much I was a f***ed,' Osbourne said via The Scotsman in 2007. 'The final straw came when I shot all our cats. We had about 17, and I went crazy and shot them all. My wife found me under the piano in a white suit, a shotgun in one hand and a knife in the other.' Solve the daily Crossword

'Celebrity Deathmatch' Creator Thinks Show Would Be Even Bigger Today — with These Celebrities in the Ring (Exclusive)

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"Celebrity Deathmatch" ran from 1998 to 2002 Eric Fogel combined some of his favorite things into a risky show that earned itself a place in MTV history. The creator of Celebrity Deathmatch first pitched the idea 28 years ago, during his time working at the network. "As a kid, I always had love for stop-motion animation. I was just sort of taken by those Ray Harryhausen films and some of the claymation that you would see on TV at the time," he tells PEOPLE. "As I grew older, I became aware that there was maybe a market for a more adult animated content, and I thought that stop-motion animation in that adult space felt like unmarked territory." "I started thinking of all the things that I loved — professional wrestling and making fun of celebrities. I thought if I could sort of mix that with that claymation style, you could have something really special." The idea didn't immediately appeal to everyone, but Fogel was persistent in what he believed had real potential. "The MTV execs, they weren't quite seeing it, and it took about a year of me and my producing partner at the time, a guy named John Lynn, sort of repeatedly whispering into the ear of the president of MTV. After about a year of annoying him, he said, 'Yeah, let's do it,'" he laughs. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Celebrity Deathmatch started as "sort of an experiment" with an original short that premiered on Cartoon Sushi. The matchup was Marilyn Manson versus Charles Manson. "That was the original celebrity deathmatch, and that was our experiment to test the technology and see if this was something that could work in a larger format," he explains. Bringing that short to life, at the time, consisted of "taking over a conference room" at MTV Animation's offices in midtown Manhattan. "It's not really set up to film stop-motion animation. We set up some janky lighting and some, at that time, free chip digital video cameras. We were sort of figuring it out as we went along with those early episodes," he says. "Then, there was an opportunity to go bigger. MTV was doing a Super Bowl halftime alternative, and they approached us and asked if we could do a Celebrity Deathmatch halftime show." Despite being "only like three weeks out from the Super Bowl," Fogel told them that they "could do it, but we'd have to keep it really simple — limited characters, nothing too crazy." "They said they'd think on it and come back to us. They came back to us and said, 'Okay, and we know who we would like to feature in the deathmatch,'" he recalls. "It was The Spice Girls versus Hanson, so that was like a total of like eight characters in there, which was exactly what we didn't want." Still, they "locked in" — literally. "We were in that conference room for, I think, three weeks straight, morning, noon, and night, getting that thing finished," he says. "It was a labor of love, and it kind of paid off. That was what launched us into a series format." Fogel says the success of the show was "what animators dream of." "You take everything that you love and you put it out there in the world and hope that other people love it too. And when they do, that's sort of that magic spark. It was a dream to realize that we had found an audience and that we could keep making these," Fogel shares. Week after week, writers would scour through entertainment magazines "to see who was in the zeitgeist that week." "We would just create these lists of celebrities that we thought could be interesting and then try to figure out the pairings, and sometimes you know it was a little tricky because you had to have layers, a series of gags you could build a deathmatch around," he explains. "Some celebrities were a little more fertile in that way, while others were were not. So it was tricky to choose, and, and then sort of figure out what would make the funniest, most entertaining deathmatch. That was always the challenge of putting those matches together." Fogel enjoyed orchestrating some of the more "elaborate matches" that included different settings than the basic ring. "For one match, we built this Tower of Terror, and we had Russell Crowe against Charlton Heston, and it was sort of this gladiator match, but it was in this tower that had all these booby traps and things that made it really fun and insane," he recalls. "There was the Dome of Devastation. We had Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins versus Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. It had musical instruments on the walls of the dome." "It was really fun finding those clever, gimmicky deathmatches," he adds. "We had a time machine too, so we could bring people from ancient history, and pair them with modern celebrities, and that was always exciting." While the humor was definitely on the riskier side, Fogel says that many of the celebrities featured "were really good sports about it." "I was nervous at times thinking we had maybe pushed things a little too far," Fogel admits. "I remember in one instance, we had a match, a three-way match between Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. Whoopi Goldberg contacted us after that match," he reveals. "She sent us flowers and chocolate, and she was such a huge fan that we then approached her directly and asked if she would actually come back and be featured as a guest commentator on the show. She said yes and she did provide her own voice for that." In 2002, Celebrity Deathmatch came to an end, but briefly returned from 2006 to 2007 without Fogel's involvement. Despite "a few false starts," it hasn't returned to the air in 18 years. However, Fogel thinks that the possibility is there — and always will be. "That's the beauty of the show — it's timeless. These matches are iconic. You could literally open Google and type a few words, and you'll get a whole bunch of new Celebrity Deathmatch ideas. It's an evergreen concept," he shares. "I was just browsing this morning. Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel hate each other. You know, Will Smith and Chris Rock probably still hate each other? Taylor Swift and Kanye West is still a match I'd like to visit in the ring," he shares. "It feels like there are still some unresolved issues there. It's such a fertile, fertile environment. I feel like you could bring it back tomorrow, and people would tune into it." With the introduction of social media, Fogel says he "would love the opportunity to just see what would happen." "To me, that would be even more entertaining, to have that interaction where now, celebrities are so vocal and you can get that sort of real-time reaction," he says. "I think that would make it even more exciting." "Politically? We don't even have to go there, but you know... Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg would be a very fertile environment for a celebrity deathmatch. And then, you know, just pivoting back to the social media angle, you know, MrBeast and Logan Paul would be insane, right? You have a whole new sort of stomping grounds that you could play in, and it's just unlimited." Laughing, he adds, "Let's do it. Let's make it." Read the original article on People

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"Celebrity Deathmatch" ran from 1998 to 2002 Eric Fogel combined some of his favorite things into a risky show that earned itself a place in MTV history. The creator of Celebrity Deathmatch first pitched the idea 28 years ago, during his time working at the network. "As a kid, I always had love for stop-motion animation. I was just sort of taken by those Ray Harryhausen films and some of the claymation that you would see on TV at the time," he tells PEOPLE. "As I grew older, I became aware that there was maybe a market for a more adult animated content, and I thought that stop-motion animation in that adult space felt like unmarked territory." "I started thinking of all the things that I loved — professional wrestling and making fun of celebrities. I thought if I could sort of mix that with that claymation style, you could have something really special." The idea didn't immediately appeal to everyone, but Fogel was persistent in what he believed had real potential. "The MTV execs, they weren't quite seeing it, and it took about a year of me and my producing partner at the time, a guy named John Lynn, sort of repeatedly whispering into the ear of the president of MTV. After about a year of annoying him, he said, 'Yeah, let's do it,'" he laughs. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Celebrity Deathmatch started as "sort of an experiment" with an original short that premiered on Cartoon Sushi. The matchup was Marilyn Manson versus Charles Manson. "That was the original celebrity deathmatch, and that was our experiment to test the technology and see if this was something that could work in a larger format," he explains. Bringing that short to life, at the time, consisted of "taking over a conference room" at MTV Animation's offices in midtown Manhattan. "It's not really set up to film stop-motion animation. We set up some janky lighting and some, at that time, free chip digital video cameras. We were sort of figuring it out as we went along with those early episodes," he says. "Then, there was an opportunity to go bigger. MTV was doing a Super Bowl halftime alternative, and they approached us and asked if we could do a Celebrity Deathmatch halftime show." Despite being "only like three weeks out from the Super Bowl," Fogel told them that they "could do it, but we'd have to keep it really simple — limited characters, nothing too crazy." "They said they'd think on it and come back to us. They came back to us and said, 'Okay, and we know who we would like to feature in the deathmatch,'" he recalls. "It was The Spice Girls versus Hanson, so that was like a total of like eight characters in there, which was exactly what we didn't want." Still, they "locked in" — literally. "We were in that conference room for, I think, three weeks straight, morning, noon, and night, getting that thing finished," he says. "It was a labor of love, and it kind of paid off. That was what launched us into a series format." Fogel says the success of the show was "what animators dream of." "You take everything that you love and you put it out there in the world and hope that other people love it too. And when they do, that's sort of that magic spark. It was a dream to realize that we had found an audience and that we could keep making these," Fogel shares. Week after week, writers would scour through entertainment magazines "to see who was in the zeitgeist that week." "We would just create these lists of celebrities that we thought could be interesting and then try to figure out the pairings, and sometimes you know it was a little tricky because you had to have layers, a series of gags you could build a deathmatch around," he explains. "Some celebrities were a little more fertile in that way, while others were were not. So it was tricky to choose, and, and then sort of figure out what would make the funniest, most entertaining deathmatch. That was always the challenge of putting those matches together." Fogel enjoyed orchestrating some of the more "elaborate matches" that included different settings than the basic ring. "For one match, we built this Tower of Terror, and we had Russell Crowe against Charlton Heston, and it was sort of this gladiator match, but it was in this tower that had all these booby traps and things that made it really fun and insane," he recalls. "There was the Dome of Devastation. We had Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins versus Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. It had musical instruments on the walls of the dome." "It was really fun finding those clever, gimmicky deathmatches," he adds. "We had a time machine too, so we could bring people from ancient history, and pair them with modern celebrities, and that was always exciting." While the humor was definitely on the riskier side, Fogel says that many of the celebrities featured "were really good sports about it." "I was nervous at times thinking we had maybe pushed things a little too far," Fogel admits. "I remember in one instance, we had a match, a three-way match between Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. Whoopi Goldberg contacted us after that match," he reveals. "She sent us flowers and chocolate, and she was such a huge fan that we then approached her directly and asked if she would actually come back and be featured as a guest commentator on the show. She said yes and she did provide her own voice for that." In 2002, Celebrity Deathmatch came to an end, but briefly returned from 2006 to 2007 without Fogel's involvement. Despite "a few false starts," it hasn't returned to the air in 18 years. However, Fogel thinks that the possibility is there — and always will be. "That's the beauty of the show — it's timeless. These matches are iconic. You could literally open Google and type a few words, and you'll get a whole bunch of new Celebrity Deathmatch ideas. It's an evergreen concept," he shares. "I was just browsing this morning. Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel hate each other. You know, Will Smith and Chris Rock probably still hate each other? Taylor Swift and Kanye West is still a match I'd like to visit in the ring," he shares. "It feels like there are still some unresolved issues there. It's such a fertile, fertile environment. I feel like you could bring it back tomorrow, and people would tune into it." With the introduction of social media, Fogel says he "would love the opportunity to just see what would happen." "To me, that would be even more entertaining, to have that interaction where now, celebrities are so vocal and you can get that sort of real-time reaction," he says. "I think that would make it even more exciting." "Politically? We don't even have to go there, but you know... Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg would be a very fertile environment for a celebrity deathmatch. And then, you know, just pivoting back to the social media angle, you know, MrBeast and Logan Paul would be insane, right? You have a whole new sort of stomping grounds that you could play in, and it's just unlimited." Laughing, he adds, "Let's do it. Let's make it." Read the original article on People

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