Kelly Osbourne
Background information
Birth name	Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne
Born	October 27, 1984(1984-10-27) London, England , UK
Genre(s)	Rock, Punk-pop, Pop, New Wave
Occupation(s)	Vocalist
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Years active	2002 - present
Label(s)	Epic (2002-2003) Sanctuary (2003-2007)
Associated acts	Ozzy Osbourne
Website	Official site

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne, (born on October 27, 1984 in London) is an English television personality, singer, actress and fashion designer. Osbourne first rose to fame in The Osbournes, the Emmy-winning reality TV series about her famous father and his family. The daughter of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne, she has two full siblings: Aimee Osbourne and Jack Osbourne, and two half-siblings: Jessica Hobbs and Louis John Osbourne, Ozzy's children from his first marriage and Robert Marcato, adopted by Sharon and Ozzy after his mother died.

Contents 1 Music 1.1 Discography 1.1.1 Albums 1.1.2 Singles 2 Acting 2.1 Life As We Know It 2.2 Other Acting Opportunities 3 Presenting 3.1 Body & Soul Charity Event 4 Fashion 4.1 Stiletto Killers 5 Personal life 5.1 Marriage 5.2 Feud 6 Trivia 7 References 8 See also 9 External links

Music

Her debut album, Shut Up!, was released in 2002 to moderate sales, fueled mostly by a cover version of the hit Madonna song Papa Don't Preach, which was debuted with Houston rock band Pure Rubbish at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards. Osbourne's 2002 Epic debut, "Shut Up!", debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. The album was met with bad critical reviews also failing to spark much interest, and by May 2003, Osbourne had been dropped from Epic. However, by autumn she had resurfaced 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, a first for both father and daughter. Shut Up! was repackaged with this duet and a few live cuts and re-released as Changes. Sales did not improve, however.

Osbourne's second album, Sleeping in the Nothing, debuted at #117 on the Billboard Top 200, selling just under 9,000 copies. The album sees Osbourne make a transition from rock to 80s dance-pop and was co-written and produced by legendary songwriter/former popstar, Linda Perry. The first single from the album, "One Word", peaked at #1 on 3 Billboard dance charts. Osbourne became the first artist in the history of the Billboard charts to top all 3 dance surveys in the same week. However, the album was not without controversy, due to its heavily altered album cover, in which she appeared slimmer. The image, which graced the album cover and most of its promotional material, angered many fans due to her previous reiterations of being happy with her size, and not wanting to change for anyone.

During an interview in late 2005, Osbourne denied reports she is ending her music career, and is said to be working on a new album. Osbourne was quoted as saying: "I don't know where the quit rumours came from - I've just recorded a version of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun with Cyndi Lauper."

Discography

Albums

Album Information
Shut Up Release Date: November 26, 2002 (U.S.) Chart Positions: #1 Billboard Heatseekers U.S., #101 Top 200 Billboard U.S., # 16 Finland, # 30 Germany, # 31 UK, #100 Australia Singles 2002: "Papa Don't Preach" 2003: "Shut Up " 2003:"Come Dig Me Out"
Changes Release Date: September 30, 2003 (U.S.) Chart Positions: #Failed To Chart U.S. Singles 2003: "Changes"
Sleeping in the Nothing Release Date: June 7, 2005 (U.S.) Chart Positions: #117 Billboard 200 U.S., #2 Billboard Top Electronic Albums U.S., #2 Top Heatseekers, #57 UK Singles 2005: "One Word" 2005: "Redlight"

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions
		U.S.	U.S. Dance	U.K	AUS	IRE	CAN	GER	SWE	FIN	NOR	SPA	POR
2002	"Papa Don't Preach" (Madonna cover)	25	-	3	3	6	-	24	19	5	-	-	-
2003	"Shut Up"	-	-	11	34	18	-	-	19	-	15	-	-
	"Come Dig Me Out"	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	"Changes" (With Ozzy Osbourne)	-	-	1	-	7	-	15	-	-	15	-	-
2005	"One Word"1	86	1	9	38	19	17	38	-	-	-	9	12
	"Redlight"	-	40	73	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	TBA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

• ¹ refers to the Chris Cox Remix of the song on the US Dance Chart position. It also peaked on the Pop Chart at #86.

Acting

Life As We Know It

Osbourne made her debut as an actress with a starring role on October 7, 2004 on the ABC high school teen drama Life As We Know It, where she played the supporting role of Deborah Beatrice Tynan.

Other Acting Opportunities

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 2007 Osbourne made a TV show called Kelly Osbourne: Turning Japanese. The show involves Kelly going to Japan, where she takes on challenges such as dressing up, and a job at a "love" hotel. She learns to appreciate the Japanese culture.

In July 2007 it was announced Osbourne was to take on the role of prison matron Mama Morton in the musical drama Chicago . 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.

Presenting

Osbourne was one of the presenters of the pre-show of the MTV Movie Awards 2002.

In 2003 Osbourne fronted MTV's Isle of MTV event in France and in November of the same year hosted MTV UK and Ireland's Red carpet coverage of the MTV Europe Music Awards.

In 2004 Osbourne guest presented Top of the pops Saturday.

In 2005 Kelly co-hosted the MTV Australia Video Music Awards 2005 with Ozzy, Sharon and Jack Osbourne.

In 2005 Osbourne guest presented Popworld on Channel 4 and CD:UK on ITV and an episode of The Friday Night Project for Channel 4.

In spring 2006 Osbourne was one of the judges on Making Your Mind Up.

Kelly 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.

Kelly recently 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.

In January 2007 Osbourne began presenting Project Catwalk for Sky One replacing Elizabeth Hurley.

She has recently been heard as one of a number of guest presenters of Zane Lowe's Radio One show.

Body & Soul Charity Event

At a charity event for HIV support in February, 2007, Kelly revealed to the audience that the event was special to her because one of her family members had been diagnosed as HIV positive. While introducing the band Scissor Sisters at an event for Body & Soul, Kelly made the announcement but did not elaborate as to whom she was referring.

It was later revealed that it is her cousin (from Ozzy's side of the family), Terry Longden, from the reality series The Salon, who is HIV positive. Terry was present at the event standing at the curtain backstage.

Fashion

Stiletto Killers

In 2004, Kelly Osbourne launched her own fashion line, Stiletto Killers, with friend 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 and Barone has since launched a line called Lipstick Prophets.

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 spring 2006, Osbourne modelled for Heatherette in a Catwalk show which also featured Naomi Campbell.

Personal life

Marriage

In May 2006, at the Electric Picnic festival in Ireland, Kelly and her boyfriend, Matty Derham of the band Fields, took part in a wedding ceremony in an inflatable church on site. Her representative denied that the ceremony was legally binding as Irish marriages can only be performed either by validly-ordained church people or by civil registrars who are HSE employees. Marriages can also only take place normally in churches or register offices, and where all legal requirements such as the 3 months' notice were met.

However in the days following Electric Picnic, Osbourne and boyfriend were spotted buying gold bands in Fields jewellers on Grafton Street Dublin.

Feud

After getting media attention for her part on The Osbournes, Kelly began speaking out against pop singer Christina Aguilera. On more than several occasions, Kelly had called Christina such things like a 'slut' 'whore' and 'bitch'. On one episode of 'The Osbournes' she even got into a fight with her brother Jack for speaking to Aguilera at a club. While it's still unknown why Kelly developed such a hatred for Christina (it was rumored to be jealousy), things came to a boiling point at the 2003 MTV Europe Awards. Osbourne, attending the event which was being hosted by Aguilera, called her a 'fat cow' on the red carpet when she was being interviewed by MTV. Things went further, and for the first time ever, Aguilera responded to Osbourne. In a pre-taped skit used as the introduction to the program, Aguilera is seen throwing darts at a poster of Kelly Osbourne right before she gets ready to host the event. Osbourne, upset at the skit, later retaliated on stage while presenting an award. Osbourne commented that she feels honored to have Aguilera sink so low after all she has achieved. The audience took Aguilera's side, booed Kelly after she made her comment. Aguilera then responded a few minutes later by calling Osbourne a little girl who can't handle a rebuttal.

Trivia

• Kelly sports many tattoos all over her body, including a skull-and-crossbones design on both feet, small angel wings on her back, an outlined star on the back of her neck, a tiny pink heart on her hip, a ship's anchor on the back of her left forearm, a tiny pink heart on her little finger, a padlock and key with the word 'Daddy' above it, a musical keyboard on the back of her right forearm, and the name of her brother, Jack, on her wrist. (Jack also sports a matching 'Kelly' tattoo on his wrist)

References

See also

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

External links

• The Official Kelly Osbourne Website
• Kelly Osbourne Online
• Kelly Osbourne Fansite
• Kelly Osbourne Interview
• Kelly Osbourne at MySpace
• Kelly Osbourne at the Internet Movie Database
• MTV.TV's guide to Kelly's appearances on MTV's The Osbournes
• Kelly Osbourne on the Mad Dog & Billie Show on Toronto's MIX FM