Show over for 'The Osbournes'

Rock star Ozzy Osbourne has said his family will not make any more episodes of reality TV show The Osbournes.

13:42 20 November 2004

Rock star Ozzy Osbourne has said his family will not make any more episodes of reality TV show The Osbournes.

The Black Sabbath singer told reporters at the MTV Europe Awards in Rome that he "didn't like having cameras around the house all the time."

The MTV series, which captured day-to-day life in the Osbourne household, proved a hit with viewers in both the US and the UK, earning the family a reported $85m (46m) over its three series run.

At the height of its popularity, The Osbournes had a regular audience of eight million.

The success of the show has renewed popularity for Ozzy and sales of the heavy metal star's merchandise have rocketed since the series began.

The programme has also made household names of other Osbourne family members, including Ozzy's daughter Kelly, who has launched a singing career after the show hit TV screens.

Meanwhile, Ozzy's wife Sharon, the driving force behind The Osbournes, is currently appearing as a judge in the ITV1 talent show The X-Factor, alongside pop moguls, Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh.

Agreeing that her husband's reality show has reached the end of its shelf life, Sharon Osbourne said: "Now everybody's doing reality shows.
He's done it, he's been there, he's got to do something else."

Asked to account for the show's popularity, Ozzy Osbourne was at a loss to explain its success.

"I suppose Americans get a kick out of watching a crazy Brit family like us make complete fools of ourselves every week," he said.