There’s a wonderful scene in the BBC One documentary Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home that shows the Prince of Darkness and his famous wife surveying their new home. Well, their old, new home. They’re driving around Welders House in Buckinghamshire (more grade II super-mansion than house) to see the lake Sharon has installed, along with a host of other upgrades. While they used to live here with their children before moving to Los Angeles, where they became household names with the reality TV show The Osbournes, the ducks never left.
Those ducks right there, quacking and waddling, are the descendants of the ones they once knew, Sharon explains sweetly, to Ozzy. We cut to the then 76-year-old Black Sabbath frontman inside, who exhales to the camera, “I feel like I’m finally home.” Ozzy never got to fully enjoy that lake in later life, because he died in July, only two weeks after Black Sabbath’s farewell show in Birmingham’s Villa Park. Now he’s buried there by the water’s edge – and thankfully not, as he humorously says in the film, in America, in the “McDonald’s version of a cemetery”.
