Jack Osbourne's sister Kelly responds to his I'm A Celebrity claims about The Osbournes
Jack admitted the fame from the show was hard to deal withJack Osbourne‘s sister Kelly has spoken out after he admitted on I’m A Celebrity that he struggled in The Osbournes.
The star opened up to campmates including Ruby Wax last night about the height of his fame in the MTV reality show.
Jack admitted The Osbournes – which followed his rock star dad Ozzy, mum Sharon and Kelly – was only supposed to be a three-year project. But the cameras continued to roll for the next four years.
He confessed to struggling with the huge fame the pioneering reality series brought and touched upon his drug and alcohol addiction as a teenager.
Jack admitted: “The filming never really bothered me, it was the result of the filming that bothered me. A huge amount of attention. I was always pretty shy and pretty private.”
He continued: “It was really odd. It was not a lot of structure and too much abundance and freedom. When you give a 16-year-old kid a (bleep) tonne of money and not a lot of rules in LA, you’re like, ‘Let’s go play’.”
Jack told Ruby, Martin Kemp, Angry Ginge and Alex Scott that he became addicted to ” lot of pills, a lot of alcohol a lot of weed”. He said he got sober at an adolescent treatment centre in California at 17 and has “never relapsed”.
Jack Osbourne’s sister Kelly reacts
Jack’s sister Kelly lives on a farm in Iowa, America, with her fiancé Sid Wilson and their son. But she is still keeping up with her brother’s antics in the I’m A Celebrity jungle.
Taking to Instagram, she has now shared a clip of Jack talking to his fellow campmates about The Osbournes. Kelly wrote alongside it: “I am beyond proud of my brother! I love him so much!”
Both Kelly and Jack were just teenagers when The Osbournes burst onto MTV in 2002. Kelly was 17 and Jack just 16. Their old sister, Aimee, declined to take part.
The reality show ran until 2006 and it was wild, foul-mouthed and outrageous. It also paved the way for all the reality shows that have followed it.
Speaking in the Bush Telegraph last night, Ruby said: “The Osbournes were the first touch we ever saw of reality TV, where you actually followed that family around.
“It was just the most exciting TV you ever saw. And that was way before any other reality show.”
Ruby added: “I think he’s great being so honest about being an addict. I can’t put together the kid on that show and what we are seeing now. He seems a really mature kind of straight guy. You’ve got to be affected by that kind of fame.”
Jack’s comments about The Osbournes comes days after he got emotional in camp while speaking about his dad Ozzy, who died in July.
Where does Jack live now?
Jack is married to his second wife, Aree Gearhart. He has three children with his ex wife, Lisa Stelly, and one with his Aree.
Similar to his sister Kelly, the I’m A Celebrity star has opted for a quiet life on a ranch. He lives in Idaho on Welder’s Ranch, which is 133-acres big. The dizzy heights of Hollywood are long behind him.
No wonder he is so good a starting a campfire in the jungle!
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