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Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22 at the age of 76 just two weeks after performing his last ever gig with his heavy metal band Black Sabbath in his beloved Birmingham

Ozzy Osbourne’s widow Sharon has revealed the telling sign which meant Ozzy ‘knew he was ready’ to die.

Speaking in a new interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, former X Factor judge Sharon, opened up about the last few days of husband Ozzy’s life and revealed he knew he was ‘ready’ to go.

She said: “He had told me that he was ­having dreams in the last week of his life. He was seeing people that he never knew. I said, ‘Well, what kind of ­people?’ He goes, ‘All different people. And I just keep walking and walking, and I’m seeing all these different people every night, and I go back there and I’m looking at these people, and they’re looking at me, and nobody’s talking’. And he knew. He was ready.”

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Sadly Ozzy died on July 22, 2025 at the age of 76 just two weeks after he performed with his band Black Sabbath for the final time in a homecoming gig in his beloved Birmingham on July 6.

It has since emerged that doctors warned Ozzy that if he took to the stage again his body wouldn’t withstand it. But he was determined to perform with his band one last time and did it anyway.

Sharon revealed: “When we came to England and we were meeting with new doctors here, a new medical team for him, the main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it’. But we just sat there, and he said, ‘I’m doing it. I want to do it, and I’m doing it’.”

Piers clarified: “So he knew that if he went ahead with the show, it would probably kill him. I don’t know how you feel given how painful it has been to lose him.” Breaking down in tears, Sharon said: “The main doctor said to him that if he did the show, ‘that’s it, you’re not gonna get through it. … He didn’t want to die on stage, he didn’t.”

Detailing his health issues, Sharon – who married Ozzy in 1982 – continued: “He knew his body was failing him. He was in so much pain, so much pain. And I mean, you know, he had pneumonia three times this year. He’d had sepsis.

“That’s what really, really destroyed him. He was on these shots of antibiotics. It used to take 20 minutes for the shot to go in, and he had that twice a day, and it kills everything in you, the good, the bad, everything. So much antibiotics, and he just couldn’t get over that. He just couldn’t.”

In the same interview, Sharon heartbreakingly revealed that she considered “going with Ozzy”, her husband of 43 years – and may have ended it all had it not been for their children Aimee, 42, Kelly, 41, and 40-year-old Jack – who is about to become a father again for the fifth time. While Kelly has a three-year-old son called Sidney with Slip Knot star Sid Wilson, who proposed to Kelly in front of Ozzy at his farewell gig.

Jack was also proudly able to share his baby news with his late father before he died. It’s his second child with second wife Aree Gearhart. The couple already share three-year-old daughter Maple. He also has three children from his previous marriage to Lisa Stelly – Pearl, 13, Andy, 10, and seven-year-old Minnie.

In a recent interview following his exit from I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, Jack said: “It’s awesome. We’re super-excited. It was sort of planned, I should say. It was maybe a little earlier than expected. But it’s definitely something that we were wanting to pursue and somehow it happened, miraculously.”

“I think it’s been partly a healthy distraction, partly healing — probably in that kind of ‘full cycle’ category, in a weird way. It’s very much taken energy out of the grieving side of things and parked in a bit more hopefulness,” he told The Sun on Sunday.

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Opening up about her tragic sisters death, Geordie Shore star Holly Hagan has shared the details of her death and the ‘brave’ decision her family made in the hospital

Holly Hagan has shared new heartbreaking details about her sister’s death from an accidental drug overdose aged just 19.

Darci died after taking crystal MDMA in a Manchester nightclub. She was partying with friends when she poured the powdered MDMA into her drink – and was unaware of how much she had consumed. She then fell ill and was “apologising for ruining everyone’s night” but recovered enough to go back to the dance floor and take videos.

But Holly then said Darci started getting “really paranoid” and stopped recognising people before screaming and collapsing. She suffered a cardiac arrest followed by multiple organ failure.

Recalling the moment Darci passed away in hospital, the 33-year-old said it was the “worst day of our lives”.

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However, she added that ‘something good’ came of their loss after they family donated her heart and helped save the life of a stranger. Speaking with Paul C. Brunson on his podcast We Need To Talk, the Geordie Shore star described it as a “selfish decision”, explaining that they wanted her life to “mean something” and say that she’d saved a life.

She said: “We wanted her to have achieved this, and for us to feel better because of it. I found out by letter, three weeks later, that she did save a life, and that she saved the life of a woman.”

The star said it was “such an honour” and added: “As awful as the situation was, I’m so proud of her and she’s achieved more in her short 19 years than many others will achieve. And I’m so happy that the day that that woman got that call will have been the happiest day of her life. And it was the worst day of ours. But something good came of it. And someone’s children didn’t have to lose their parent.”

Holly, who is pregnant with her second child, then shared the “weirdest” part about the organ donation. “Darci had a tattoo under her ribs here, so on her heart, and it said, ‘live where your heart finds life.’ And that’s such a strange tattoo for a 19-year-old to get. Live where your heart finds life. And that was the only organ that she was able to donate,” she said.

She now hopes her younger sister is hopefully “living where her heart has found life” but still “cannot accept that she’s gone”. Calling the drug overdose a “silly mistake”, she said that her sister was not “reckless”. Recalling the fight to save her life, she previously said: “She [went] into cardiac arrest. They’ve got her back within a minute. Got straight in the ambulance and on the way to Manchester Royal Infirmary. She was there in probably less than seven minutes, very quick.

“She went into cardiac arrest again in A&E, but they got her back with chest compressions. And then at that point obviously they’re realising her temperature’s sky high, her muscles are all spasming, which releases potassium, sodium, all of the stuff. Her kidneys are being poisoned.

“So all of that stuff is happening behind the scenes while they’re just trying to keep her alive. So they’ve cooled her, they’ve put her on dialysis, she’s got all the tubes. And obviously at this point, I don’t know any of this.” She then said her phone had been on silent so hadn’t got to the hospital until the early hours of the morning but said: “I don’t think I will ever be able to wipe the screams of my mother from my brain.”

Holly was incredibly close to her sister and told her followers and opened up about a ‘red flag’ before Darci’s death. Saying she wished she had reached out to Darci before she went to clubbing at the Warehouse Project, she added: “For some reason that night and I don’t know why I didn’t, I wish I had messaged her, because we know what Warehouse Project is.

“I don’t know why I didn’t think to message her to say what you doing tonight, let me know what you’re doing tonight, let me help guide you. Because for some reason this night she decided to order, not a pill, but powdered MDMA. And as far as everyone knows and talking to her friends, this is the first time she’d ever taken it.

“She went out this night and she had one alcoholic drink and then from what her friends said she poured an amount from the bag into her drink.”

Praising the paramedics for getting Darci to Manchester Infirmary as quickly as possible, Holly revealed her heartbreaking last moments with her little sister.

“To see my sister, just 19, lying in that ward was absolutely horrendous,” the heartbroken sister told the Daily Mail. “I opened the curtain, and I have never seen anything like that in my life. I hope no parent or sibling ever has to see anything like that.

“She had tubes in her nose, in her mouth, she had bruises everywhere from where they had cannulas wherever they could put a cannula, she had tubes, needles in her neck, she had blood pouring out of her nose.”

As Barbara Windsor’s widower, Scott Mitchell reflects on the incredible life and legacy of his late wife, he reveals sadly that not everyone was happy for him when he found love again

On the fifth anniversary of the iconic star’s death, Barbara Windsor’s widower, acting agent Scott Mitchell, has revealed that sadly, when he found love again, not everyone was happy for him.

The 62-year-old dementia campaigner revealed during an exclusive chat with the Mirror that after going public last year on his romance with former EastEnders star Tanya Frank, 58, who played Rainie Cross in the soap, some nasty keyboard warriors just had to have their say.

He said, “There’s always that person that says, ‘That was quick’. It’s easy to sit on the sidelines and cast judgement – especially with social media. These people forget that their words can really hurt.”

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Opening up on his ‘wonderful’ relationship with Tanya, Scott said that she is very accepting of what a huge presence Barbara still is in his life – and has her own vested interest in dementia awareness, after her step-father Derek died of the devastating disease last year, following an 11-year battle.

Scott said: “Tanya allows me to talk about Barbara any time I need to. In the same way she can with me. I’m never second-guessing if the moment’s right. If I thought any of it hurt her, I wouldn’t do it.”

Tanya also often accompanies Scott to his regular talks about the lived experience of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s. He said, “The first thing I do is introduce Tanya and say, ‘Before we start I’d like to acknowledge my partner Tanya is here – and thank her for allowing me to share my story.”

He also confessed that, though their time on EastEnders didn’t cross, Barbara ‘liked’ Tanya when they met – as she knew her stuff when it came to the acting world. “The team used to come to our house,” explained Scott, “and Tanya and Barbara got on really well. Barbara liked Tanya – she’d say, ‘She asks sensible questions about acting!’

“Tanya wanted to know all about theatre director Joan Littlewood, she knew her stuff and that meant a lot to Barbara. It was lovely that they did meet.”

Scott and Tanya became friends as they worked together and ran the London Marathon, along with other EastEnders colleagues, later as part of ‘Bab’s Army’, before their friendship some years on, blossomed into love. He revealed that the pair will be spending Christmas together with their families – but won’t forget those that are missing, admitting, “There are always empty chairs at Christmas. And we will be remembering our loved ones – as it should be.”

Elsewhere, Scott praised the amazing legacy of his late wife, as he remembered her at her best. “Certain people truly earn the title of national treasure – Barbara was one of them. But for me, I’ll simply remember how she was, how loving she was with me. She made me laugh so much – she was true to herself, honest about her flaws and her past.

“She taught me a lot about getting rid of ego – I wasn’t as good at that in my younger days. People laughed when we first got together, but we lasted the course – it was unconditional love.”

He added, “It took us forever to go anywhere, she’d talk to everyone. It was like walking down the street with Tinkerbell. She loved other people and their stories – she would sprinkle her special fairy dust on everyone.”