Jack Osbourne

Jack Joseph Osbourne (born 8 November 1985) is a British-American media personality.

He is the son of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, and Sharon Osbourne.

He starred on MTV's reality series The Osbournes (2002–2005), along with his father, mother Sharon, and sister Kelly.

Osbourne gained high visibility in 2002 after appearing in his family's reality television show The Osbournes, which aired on MTV and won an Emmy Award in 2002.

In the show, Osbourne was mostly shown as a rebellious teenager who liked to party and to fight with sister Kelly Osbourne.

In a song by Tenacious D advertising The Osbournes, Jack Black sings the line "and he's got a big 'fro on his head" to describe Osbourne's curly hair that grew longer until he eventually shaved it off in the third season of the show.

In 2002, Osbourne briefly appeared in Austin Powers: Goldmember along with the rest of his family, and subsequently starred in a Super Bowl XXXVI advertisement for Pepsi Twist with sister Kelly.

From 2002 to 2003, Osbourne appeared in Season 6 of Dawson's Creek, playing Audrey's childhood friend.

He also made cameos in The X Factor (as a "Goth rapper" who sings "Ice Ice Baby"), the fifth season of That '70s Show as a DMV customer and as a dining room guest in the eighth season of Hell's Kitchen.

He started partying heavily, and made headlines on 21 April 2003, when he was admitted to a child psychiatric ward for an addiction to OxyContin.

Osbourne's drug addiction escalated after his mother was diagnosed with cancer; he was as well battling with his own depression.

His self-destructive behaviour came to a head when he attempted suicide by taking a cocktail of prescription pills and cutting his hands with shards of glass after hearing his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend pick up her phone when he called her.

He woke up 12 hours later.

Osbourne continued with his drug use until he realised that he "never wants to feel this way ever again" and admitted himself into an adolescent psychiatric ward.

He spent 10 days detoxing and was moved to an adolescent rehabilitation center in Malibu, where he enrolled in a recovery program.

Post-rehab, Osbourne went on in 2003 to star in his own show on Channel 4, Union Jack.

In 2004 he played a small role in New York Minute, a film starring the Olsen twins, in which he plays a music promoter named Justin.

Osbourne has since pursued a career as a fitness and travel reporter, presenting shows such as Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie (2005–2009) and BBC's Saving Planet Earth (2007).

In 2005, Osbourne started to show more of an interest in fitness through co-hosting the ITV2 show, Celebrity Wrestling: Bring It On!.

In February that year, he appeared in Extreme Celebrity Detox in which he took part in tai chi and climbing exercises, which possibly inspired him to appear in his own programme, Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie produced by the same production company (Ginger Productions) as Extreme Celebrity Detox.

Osbourne lost (50Lb) 23 kg in Thailand at a Muay Thai martial arts camp in Pattaya in order to be fit enough to climb El Capitan (which he achieved) whilst filming the first series of Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie.

It aired on ITV2 in the UK, the Travel Channel in the United States, The LifeStyle Channel in Australia, GOtv in South Africa and on MuchMusic in Canada.

Adrenaline Junkie focuses on Osbourne's training for sports like rock climbing, mountaineering and a jungle trek in Belize from the Chiquibul Chamber through dense jungle ending at Caracol ruins (guided by the UK extreme conservation organisation Trekforce).

He showcased the effects of his weight loss with the two semi-naked photo shoots for Cosmopolitan magazine in 2005 to raise awareness of testicular cancer.

The first, taken in June 2005, shows him sitting on a motorbike; the second appeared in the December 2005 issue.

After the first series of Adrenaline Junkie he began filling in for Stephen Mulhern on CITV's Saturday morning kids' show Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown (which has since ended).

Osbourne took part in Sport Relief and faced former singer in the band S Club 7, Bradley McIntosh, in a boxing match of three one-minute rounds to raise money for the charity.

On his 13th birthday, Osbourne got drunk for the first time on whisky; by the time he was 14, he was drinking regularly and had started smoking marijuana.

In 2016, he and his father Ozzy travelled the world in the History Channel reality series Ozzy & Jack's World Detour.

Osbourne was born in London to heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath, and his wife and manager, Sharon (née Levy).

Jack Osbourne has stated that his childhood was "perfectly happy and contented".

For the first six years of his life, Jack lived in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, then his parents moved the family to Los Angeles, America, but a year later the family returned to Buckinghamshire.

When Osbourne was 11, the family moved back again to Southern California, this time to Beverly Hills.

In spite of moving so many times at a young age, Osbourne did not find it disruptive.

One aspect of his life that constant moving did affect was his school life, and Osbourne soon despised going to school, which was not helped by the fact that he was diagnosed with a form of dyslexia at the age of eight, and ADHD at the age of 10.

At the time, he was studying at a Christian school in Los Angeles.

He returned to England for a year before returning to Los Angeles, where he was enrolled into the special needs Park Century School.

At 14 he was offered an internship at Virgin Records, where his mother was managing the band The Smashing Pumpkins.

After Sharon stopped managing that band, Osbourne started A&R scouting for Epic Records, where his father had been on for many years.

Osbourne also helped his mother in managing his father's annual touring festival, Ozzfest, advising her about up-and-coming bands.