He was a fearless heavy metal wildman who once bit a bat’s head off on stage.
But Ozzy Osbourne is now so obsessed with clean living he would rather get his hands on bottles of antibacterial gel than booze and drugs.
The legend known as the Prince of Darkness was so worried about catching Covid he even sprayed the stuff on takeaways to kill germs – but it still didn’t stop him being hit by the disease, wife Sharon revealed.
She left her new Talk TV show in the UK to be by his side in the US on Thursday and has told of her fears for 73-year-old Ozzy, who suffers from Parkinson’s and mobility issues.
A source said: “She’s beside herself with worry. Ozzy was badly paranoid about getting Covid because of everything that he has been through.
"Now he’s got it, he’s panicked and feeling awful.
“He heard about Covid spreading on surfaces and got so paranoid that he got all takeaway deliveries coming into the house sprayed outside with anti-bacterial treatments.”
The former Black Sabbath frontman – whose biggest hit was 1970’s Paranoid – predicted his own death in a new interview before he was diagnosed with Covid.
He said: “It will be f***ing Christmas again before you know it. I will be 74. I will be dead soon.”
In an emotional video last week, Sharon said: “Ozzy was diagnosed in the middle of the night, our time. I spoke to him and he’s OK.
"I am very worried about Ozzy. We went two years without him catching Covid. It’s just Ozzy’s luck it would be now.”
The health drama came as ratings for her show, The Talk, fell to just 9,700.
Staff feared she had quit but she pledged to return in a week, leaving sidekick Jeremy Kyle in charge.
Sharon, 69, has said Ozzy was “dying to come back home” but he is unsure after two decades in Los Angeles.
Speaking on Sirius XM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard channel, he said: “I do not want to go back yet.
"I am going back at some point but I don’t know when. I got so fed up with telling people I am leaving at Christmas, then I am staying, then going again.
"I just go, ‘I’m here now. When I wake up in England, I’m there.’”
Ozzy is waiting for a back op he hopes will help him walk properly again.
He said: “I’m still waiting because this Covid thing keeps knocking it back. I do not know what the end is going to be with this bloody Covid.”
Meanwhile, Sharon also told of her joy at being back in the UK as it gets her away from LA’s “cancel culture”.
And while the couple are at odds over their UK return, Ozzy says of their 40-year marriage: “My wife and I have been getting on so f***ing great.
“She has been wonderful. No rowing or anything.”
