Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne attending "The 6th Annual Hollywood Style Awards" Beverly Hills, CA on Oct. 10, 2009
Background information
Birth name	Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne
Born	27 October 1984 (1984-10-27) (age 25) Westminster, London, England
Genres	Pop rock, new wave revival, pop punk
Occupations	Singer, actress, television personality, radio presenter, fashion designer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Epic (2002–2003) Sanctuary (2003–2007) Universal (2007-present)
Associated acts	Ozzy Osbourne
Website	Official website

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne (born 27 October 1984) is an English media personality, fashion designer, singer, actress and model, known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. She was thrust into the limelight after appearing on reality series The Osbournes with her family, for which they won a 2002 Emmy award for Outstanding Reality Programme with her family. She has also appeared on the Dancing with the Stars,¹ in which she and professional dance partner Louis van Amstel took third place, and has made forays into music, acting, fashion, writing and radio presentation.

Early life

Kelly Osborne was born in Westminster, London. She has an elder sister, Aimee, and a younger brother, Jack. She has two half-siblings: Jessica Hobbs and Louis John Osbourne from Ozzy's first marriage. She is the goddaughter of Elton John, as seen on an episode of The Osbournes.^{episode needed} She had an unofficially "adopted" brother, Robert Marcato, whom Sharon and Ozzy took in after Marcato's mother died. Kelly grew up travelling with her father as he went on tour, and lived in more than 20 homes between the UK and the USA.²

Career

The Osbournes

Osbourne and the rest of her immediate family (without Aimee) were thrust into the international spotlight with the MTV reality show The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 to 2005. The series chronicled their day-to-day life, and the show became a hit for its portrayal of a dysfunctional, though close-knit family in which metal music, profanity and other harshness were a daily part of life. Kelly, the middle child, emerged (according to Rolling Stone) as "a wickedly funny, brutally honest, pint-size, potty-mouthed spitfire." The series started when she was around the age of sixteen, ending around the ages of eighteen or nineteen. Kelly said in an interview for The Osbournes DVD that the crew were only actually supposed to be there for a few weeks but ended up staying for a few months and that the constant cameras focusing on her and her family was stressful.³

In March 2009 Osbourne returned to television with the rest of the Osbourne family on Osbournes: Reloaded.⁴ and was canceled later that same night due to the show being unsuitable for American TV

Music

Her debut album, Shut Up!, was released in 2002 to moderate American sales, but good European sales, which was debuted with Houston rock band Pure Rubbish at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards.⁵ Osbourne's 2002 debut with Epic Records, "Shut Up!", debuted at #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. The album was met with bad critical reviews and, by May 2003, Osbourne was dropped from Epic Records. By autumn she was on the Sanctuary label, later recording a duet of "Changes" (a Black Sabbath song) with her father. The duet hit #1 on the UK charts. Changes was one of a few tracks to have fallen down the charts (From 1 - 3) whilst selling more copies than the week it reached number 1. Osbourne was the first artist to top all three of the Billboard charts dance surveys in the same week with the "Chris Cox Club Remix" of "One Word".⁶ The album "Sleeping In The Nothing" was not without controversy, due to its reportedly heavily-altered album cover, in which Osbourne appeared slimmer,⁷ despite her previous assertions of being happy with her size.^{citation needed}

During an interview in late 2005, Osbourne denied reports she was ending her music career, saying: "I don't know where the quit rumours came from - I've just recorded a version of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" with Cyndi Lauper".⁸

Osbourne was forced to back out of her final performance in West End musical Chicago after the 31 October 2007 incident that injured her back. She later went on to win theatre actress of the year at the glamour awards in the UK. On the same night, she attended the Sony Radio Academy Awards, where she was nominated for the Rising Star Award, which she did not win.

Osbourne wants to get back in the studio and work on her third studio album. Her previous album was released four years ago, and she said that after taking a break from music, she wants to do it right this time. On her twitter page, Kelly wrote that she had just finished a track she was working on in her fathers studio, she describes it as sounding very 1990s, she wants to start working on new tracks with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris and has revealed she is working on a collaboration with a mystery pop star, her new musical direction is a more gentler sound than her first record "Shut Up/Changes", but is still reminiscent of her second electronic sounding LP "Sleeping in the nothing. She hasn't yet confirmed details of a new record or release dates.

Acting

Osbourne made her debut as an actress with a starring role on 7 October 2004 on the ABC high school teen drama Life As We Know It, where she played the supporting role of Deborah Beatrice Tynan. In June 2006, Osbourne played the role of Wendy from Peter Pan in The Queen's Handbag. In 2006, Osbourne provided a voice for the animated film Live Freaky Die Freaky. In July 2007, it was announced Osbourne was to take on the role of prison matron Mama Morton in the musical drama Chicago.⁹ Her seven-week run (from 10 September) in the musical at the Cambridge Theatre would be her stage debut, London's The Stage performing arts weekly reported.¹⁰

In 2008 she features in the short musical film The Town that Boars Me by photographer Ben Charles Edwards . The film also features Sadie Frost, Jodie Harsh, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Zandra Rhodes amongst others. The film is set to debut in late summer at the Portobello Film Festival. Osbourne will be starring alongside David Chokachi and Brooke Hogan in horror film Devour, set for US release in 2010. The film is currently in post production. In 2009 she appeared in an episode of Hotel Babylon, a British TV show aired on BBC One. She played Jo a character very similar to herself.¹¹¹²

Presenting

Since her rise to fame, Osbourne has been called on to present for various events. Osbourne co-hosted the 2006 edition of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! Now, a spin-off show of the main ITV1 programme. She hosted alongside Jeff Brazier in Australia, and Mark Durden-Smith in the London studio. Her one-off gigs include the 2002 MTV Movie Awards, Top of the Pops Saturday, MTV's Isle of MTV, MTV UK and Ireland's red carpet coverage of the 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards, Popworld, The Sunday Night Project, the 2005 MTV Australia Video Music Awards and Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show. In spring 2006, Osbourne was one of the judges on Making Your Mind Up.

Osbourne presented ITV2's coverage of the National Television Awards with her brother Jack, and a documentary on Japanese pop culture called Kelly Osbourne: Turning Japanese for the same channel.¹³

In January 2007, Osbourne began presenting Project Catwalk for Sky1. In Autumn 2007, Osbourne signed to BBC Radio 1 to host the Sunday night show, Radio 1's The Surgery, and on 7 October 2007 she went on air for the first time with the issue of self harm. She was scheduled to return to the show in early 2009 and whilst she was away, Aled Haydn Jones from The Chris Moyles Show presented the show. Aled has now been confirmed as a full time presenter. In spring 2008, she began contributing a teenage advice column to the tabloid newspaper The Sun, "Kelly Confidential", where she is billed as "the teen trouble shooter".

She appeared in Dancing with the Stars as a contestant, from September to November, 2009. She and partner Louis Van Amstel took third place. The judges said Kelly was the contestant who grew the most and surprised them most, and they would be sorry to see her go.

Osbourne has presented on The Surgery with Kelly Osbourne on BBC Radio 1.

Fashion

After her appearance on the reality show, Osbourne quickly began to be noted for her varied and trendy style among fashion commentators like Steven Cojocaru¹⁴¹⁵ In 2004, Osbourne launched her own fashion line, Stiletto Killers,¹⁶ with her friend and former sponsor, Ali Barone. Stiletto Killers was a rock-inspired line of tees, knickers, hoodies, and sweatpants designed by Osbourne and Barone, emblazoned with cartoonish designs and punk rock phrases. There was also a more sophisticated couture branch, The SK Collection. Stiletto Killers closed in April 2006.

In 2006, Osbourne became the face of the high street chain Accessorize in a campaign which was seen across Europe, Canada, Russia, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and the Middle East. In the spring of that year, Osbourne modeled for Heatherette in a catwalk show which also featured Naomi Campbell. In 2010, she modelled a Chris Benz dress for Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief runway show for The White Ribbon Alliance to raise funds for mothers in Haiti.

Writing

On September 1, 2009, Osbourne released her 1st autobiography: Fierce via Virgin Books.¹⁷ Though the book contains autobiography elements, it also has been written to give people advice, strength and guidance through tough periods. By September 9, 2009 the book has reached no. 1 on many of Amazon's charts (music, film, television, styles and biography), and a current peak of 17 on the bestsellers chart. Kelly will be on a book tour of the UK to promote the book throughout September before returning to the states for her appearance on DWTS.` As of September 2009 she will write a weekly column giving advice and celebrity gossip in UK magazine closer.

Dancing with the Stars

Osbourne appeared on the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars with Louis van Amstel. Shown in a video before her first dance was Amstel about to meet Kelly when her dad appeared and yelled "SHARON!". She danced a Viennese Waltz and received high praises from the judges including Len Goodman who said "It was the best Viennese Waltz of the night". Her parents both were in tears. She received a 23/30, getting second place on the judges' leader board and that week's encore. The same week she danced a cha-cha-cha relay and received 8 points and second place out of the four other cha-cha-cha relay couples. The following week, Baz Luhrman filled in for judge Goodman and she danced a tango making many mistakes. Backstage, she started crying but received a 19 which was "better than which she hoped for". Her next dance was a samba which she received a 20 mainly because there was too much kissing going on during the dance between her and Amstel. Next week introduced four new dances (two-step, Charleston, Lambada and bolero) and she danced a Charleston tying with her first week's performance of 23. The following week, she danced a Paso Doble to "Crazy Train", one of her father's famous songs which judge Carrie Ann Inaba quoted "it must have made her father proud" and received her highest score of 24. However, backstage after the performance, she had apparently injured her foot. This did not affect her dancing, however the following week when asked to dance a Jitterbug, judge Bruno Tonioli quoted "it was just beige" and she received a 20, the first time she came in last place. That same week, she danced a Mambo in the first ever Mambo marathon and was fourth eliminated in the dance receiving 5 points. The following week, Osbourne and Amstel danced a Salsa and tied with their highest score of 24 and a Team Tango along with future winner Donny Osmond and future fourth place participant Joanna Krupa. The team received a 28, her highest score with a group or without plus the encore for the week. That dance was also the first and only 10 she was awarded from Bruno Tonioli. Osbourne moved on to the Top 5 week where she danced a Foxtrot and a 1960s themed jive. Her first dance got her a 25 and the second, 26. She however was last to be called safe and Aaron Carter was shockingly eliminated. For the final four week, she for the first time danced three dances in one week. She first danced a Rumba where she had no help and had to do a 15-second solo. She was scored a 24. Her next dance was a Quickstep where afterwards she broke into tears and was scored her highest solo dance of 27. She then danced her "knock-out" Cha-Cha-Cha which had been planned for weeks ahead and was scored 27. That week, she was once again last to be called safe and shockingly, she moved onto the finals where Joanna Krupa and Derek Hough were eliminated. The final week had her and Amstel dance 4 dances which included an Argentine Tango (26), a Megamix dance with Osmond and Mya (26), her Freestyle (24) and a repeat of her Viennese Waltz (26). She received the lowest score in every dance and a final total of 102/120 for that week. She took home third place.

Performances

Personal life

On 2 April 2004, Osbourne entered the Malibu rehab facility Promises after admitting to family that she was addicted to painkillers.¹⁸ Over a year later, on June 2, she checked into Las Encinas Hospital, a drug treatment centre in Pasadena, California after a relapse.¹⁹ She entered another drug treatment facility in January 2009²⁰; she stayed for a month and later acknowledged that she had suffered a relapse of her addiction to painkillers.²¹ After 30 days Kelly was released and has been quoted that this was the first time she really thought it had helped her.²²

In September 2006, at the Electric Picnic festival in Ireland, Osbourne and her boyfriend, Matty Derham of the band Fields, held a wedding ceremony. Her representative denied that the ceremony was legally binding, because it did not meet Irish legal requirements, as in Ireland, at the time, a couple couldn't get married in an outdoor venue.²³ She later went on to date Matt Emerson, drummer from rock band Trash Fashion.²⁴

Osbourne appeared at an HIV charity benefit in February 2007, a cause she revealed stemmed from the HIV positive status of her cousin Terry Longden, of the reality show The Salon.²⁵²⁶

On January 19, 2009, Osbourne was arrested for assault after allegedly slapping Daily Mirror columnist Zoe Griffin at a club in August 2008 after Griffin wrote a story that mocked Worrall.²⁷

As of March 2009, Osbourne is engaged to model Luke Worrall.²⁸

Discography

Albums

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Singles

DVDs

• Kelly Osbourne: Live at the Electric Ballroom (23 March 2004)

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

• 2002 - Teen Choice Awards - TV - Choice Breakout Star, Female (The Osbournes) - Won
• 2003 - Teen Choice Awards - Favorite TV Personality - Nominated
• 2003 - Teen Choice Awards - Choice TV Reality/Variety Star - Female (The Osbournes) - Won
• 2007 - Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards - Best Takeover in a Role (Chicago at the Cambridge) - Nominated
• 2008 - Sony Radio Academy Awards - Rising Star Award - Nominated
• 2008 - LK Today High Street Fashion Awards - Best Dressed Celebrity in High Street Fashion - Won
• 2008 - Glamour Awards - Theatre Actress of the Year (Chicago) - Won

See also

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart

Notes

^ a: Jack also sports a matching 'Kelly' tattoo on his wrist.

References

External links

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• Kelly Osbourne at the Internet Movie Database