Dad

KELLY Osbourne has shared a heartbreaking clip of dad Ozzy as he missed out on festive family tradition. 

Ozzy sadly passed away aged 76 on July 22, with the cause of death later revealed to be a cardiac arrest.  

And Kelly, 41, revealed The Osbourne’s festive tradition of putting up the Christmas tree together was missing the unmistakable presence of Ozzy this year.

The mum took to Instagram to share a sweet video of her late father detangling Christmas lights. 

The scene shows the musician comically swearing as he struggles to undo a string of lights for the Christmas tree. 

Ozzy eventually shouts up to his beloved wife Sharon, 73, for help as he walks away.

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Kelly reposted the video from another online user adding an emotional caption over the top.

She penned: “We are meant to be putting up the Christmas tree today! It won’t be the same (crying emoji)”

The mom-of-one will be heartbroken to be spending her first Christmas without her father alongside the rest of the Osbourne clan.

Kelly has been supporting her mother through their loss, previously revealing she slept in her parents’ bed for two months after Ozzy passed away.

In a special episode of their family podcast titled Remembering Ozzy, Sharon confessed she “hates” going to bed at night.

Kelly said: “I mean, I slept with you for the first two months so that you weren’t on your own.

“But then I felt like you needed some space.”

Kelly and Sharon will also be missing son and brother Jack, 40, over the beginning of the Christmas period as he is currently taking part in I’m A Celebrity.

Jack recently left fans concerned as he ended up in tears while discussing Ozzy.

During a discussion with Eddie Kadi, Jack was asked what he missed most about Ozzy.

As he attempted to answer the question, Jack became overcome with emotion as he tried to compose himself.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to bring it out like that,” Eddie expressed as Jack said: “No it’s fine.”

“I haven’t experienced what you’ve experienced,” he told the grief-stricken star before asking him: “What do you miss most about your pops?”

Again, Jack was unable to answer the question as he held his face into his hands and sobbed.

He finally expressed: “Just his energy. He had this force, so hard to describe. But he had this energy.”

A STAR from Boy Meets World has revealed he has welcomed a baby girl.

Ben Savage has shared the joyous news that he has become a dad at 45.

The actor, who played the lead role of Cory Matthews on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World and its Disney Channel sequel Girl Meets World, has shared the first snaps of his baby girl on Instagram.

Ben is married to Tessa Angermeier, whom he wed in March 2023.

And now the pair have welcomed their first child together.

Taking to the platform on Thanksgiving, Ben shared a selection of sweet photos to reveal the birth of their bundle of joy.

Alongside a carousel, Ben wrote simply: “Welcome little one.”

Fans flocked to the comments section to congratulate the actor and his partner on their arrival.

One person penned, “Girl meets world (for real).”

“Dad meets girl, congrats,” said a second.

“Awe congratulations!!! Boy meets baby. Much love to you and your sweet family,” penned a third.

A fourth then added, “Boy met his girl in this world!! Congrats!!”

“Awe how cute, so tiny. Girl meets world. Congratulations to you both,” said a fifth.

While a sixth person wrote, “Congrats man and happy Thanksgiving with the new baby.”

And a seventh added, “Congratulations! Enjoy every moment. Hope Mamma is doing well!”

Prior to Ben and Tessa’s wedding in 2023, the couple had been together for over four years.

Tessa made her first appearance on Ben’s Instagram in August 2018.

Ben’s wife is an Indiana native and currently works as a senior graphic designer.

She works for the company Ben Soleimani, a luxury furniture store in West Hollywood.

She is also the graphic designer, merchandise manager and tour manager for the band The Growlers.

Robin van Persie says his decision to hand son Shaqueel a senior debut in Feyenoord’s Europa League defeat by Celtic was made “as a coach” and not out of sentiment.

The 19-year-old forward spent two seasons at Manchester City’s academy, before following in his father’s footsteps with a move to Feyenoord in 2017 and signing a first professional contract with the Dutch club in 2022.

Fast forward to 2025 and Shaqueel was named in Feyenoord’s first-team squad for the first time in Sunday’s Eredivisie defeat by NEC Nijmegen.

Four days later he made his senior debut, coming on in the 81st minute of Feyenoord’s Europa League loss to Celtic.

“I made that call as a coach, not as a dad because we needed a goal,” said former Arsenal and Manchester United forward Robin afterwards.

“Shaqueel is a player who can score a goal from all angles. That was the reason I brought him on.

“From a father’s point of view, when your son makes his debut that is always a special moment. But I wasn’t that busy with enjoying that moment, I was doing my work like Shaqueel was.”

The London-born teenager didn’t have chance to make an impact and had just one shot in Celtic’s box.

He came on with the score at 2-1, with Martin O’Neill’s side scoring their third a minute after his introduction.

“The way I see Shaqueel is as one of the players,” added Robin. “This is what we both agreed to a couple of years ago when we already worked together. Shaqueel was handling that really well, I am too in my opinion.

“Later on when we are home of course we will have a nice moment, when we are proud of each other. I am proud of Shaqueel because, like every player who makes his debut, there is a whole process going on before he made his debut. He worked hard, deserved it and, for him, is a special moment.”

Van Persie is not the first manager to give his son a debut as BBC Sport picks out some of the others, plus other father-son duos to have featured in the same team.

WHEN her best friend and co-star Ariana Grande was ambushed on the red carpet, quick-thinking Cynthia Erivo rushed to the rescue.

A prankster grabbed Ariana at the Singapore premiere of their new film Wicked: For Good on Thursday, but Cynthia, 38, stepped in and strong-armed the invader away.

The British actress admits she feels protective over Ariana, saying: “I love her, she’s a bright spark but you just want to take care of her.  And we really took care of each other.”

Luckily loyal pal Cynthia was already fighting fit thanks to the ­gruelling stunts she had to perform for the eagerly anticipated sequel.

“The flying in harnesses, ­chafing, we had it. Chafing was like a funny word to me until I realised what chafing actually looked like when you had it, repetitively.

“It took months for my hips to heal, scratched palms bleeding, bloody nose, like it was bad.

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“We were willing to do whatever it took to do this, but this one was a big one for us.”

Meanwhile, Cynthia  says she and  Ariana  prefer to go to bed early — like a pair of “grandmothers”.

The star revealed that because of the time difference and their schedules, they often struggle to catch up when she is in London and Ariana is at home in LA.

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But while gearing up for the long-awaited sequel of the big-screen musical,  32-year-old Ariana, who plays Glinda, broke routine to make sure they could chat.

Cynthia, who plays Elphaba in the films,  said of one recent late-night text exchange with Ariana: “She’s a sweetheart. I was like, ‘Why are you up so late?’ Because we’re like grandmothers, the two of us.

“We like to sleep early. For some reason I was up at 11 here, which meant she was up at two wherever she was. I said, ‘Why are you up so late?’ She was like, ‘I know, it’s new, isn’t it? I’m never up this late’.

“I said, ‘No you’re not, what’s going on?’. And she said, ‘I’m taking every second I can get right now because you’re usually asleep by now’.”

The  first Wicked movie became the highest-grossing UK release of 2024, taking £59.6million at the box office.

It led to Cynthia being nominated for an Oscar, Bafta, Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Actress.

The sequel, Wicked: For Good, is expected to be just as big and hits UK cinemas on Friday, continuing the tale of the  witches of Oz.

Adapted from the hit musical, Wicked follows Elphaba, a student sorceress shunned by her own father for her green skin, who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, while her spoiled roommate Glinda ends up as the Good Witch of the North.

Cynthia tells how she endured ­similar heartache when her own dad walked out of her life for good when she was a teenager.

She and her sister Stephanie were very young when their Nigerian father left their mother Edith, a nurse, to bring up the girls alone.

Edith remarried when Cynthia was five and she continued to see her dad “two or three times a week”.

I think he just was not set up to be a dad. I don’t think it was his bag

Cynhtia

She told The Armchair Expert ­podcast: “My mum was really, I think, kind and gave him the space to come and visit if he wanted to.

“We would go over to him from time to time as well. She really made the space for us if he wanted to build a relationship.

“And he just didn’t. I think he  was just not set up to be a dad. I don’t think it was his bag.”

Recalling how she became estranged from her father,  Cynthia added: “I was 16 when my dad decided not to be a part of my life.”

By then, she had already joined a local youth theatre group and was singing hymns at a Catholic church near her home in Stockwell, South West London.

She went on to start a degree in musical psychology at the University of East London, but quit after securing a place at top acting school Rada.

Her early bid to break into UK telly flopped with an appearance on Channel 4 reality show Trust Me, I’m A Teenager and a small part in ITV period drama Mr Selfridge.  Hopes of a breakthrough  in Simon Cowell and

Harry Hill’s £6million X Factor ­musical, I Can’t Sing, were dashed as the run closed after seven weeks.

But her singing voice impressed casting directors.

She made her West End debut in the stage musical The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg and, in 2013,  won a place in a British stage adaptation of The Color Purple, the 1985 movie that starred Whoopi Goldberg.

Since then, her roles have included Harriet Tubman in the film Harriet and a part in Netflix thriller Luther: The Fallen Sun.

But the one person  she always wanted to impress was her father.

She secretly hoped with her  ­becoming famous, he would change his mind about being in her life. Cynthia said: “I think I was using, for a small amount of time, my career as a conduit to find a way to get him back.

‘Look what you gave up, you’re going to regret leaving this’. Yeah, that kind of thing.”

Cynthia has turned to therapy to help her deal with the trauma.

‘MAKE MISTAKES’

She said: “Until you get your head around it and get some control on what it is that you’re actually looking for, what you’re trying to fix in that, it will keep going.

“Thank goodness for a good therapist — that s**t really helped.”

Now, she has finally let go and learned to forgive.  She told The Cruz Show podcast: “It took me ages to let go of parents. It’s like my father, I had to let that go and it’s taken me a long time to get there . . . to realise that it’s a human being who is also fallible and who will make mistakes.”

Cynthia admits that clinging on to that pain for such a long time held her back.

She said: “When you let go, you have to start living. What I keep doing is trying to find the things that challenge me the most, that force me to learn more, that keep me honest  in my craft, that don’t let me get complacent and lazy.”

Wicked was a challenge. The movies were filmed in the UK in chronological order,  back-to-back,  between Dec- ember 2022 and January 2024, with a break in 2023 due to an actors’ strike.

Cynthia, who is dating Lena Waithe, an American actress, producer, and screenwriter, admits that even today she still gets crippled by anxiety.

She explained: “I think if I lose the nervousness, then I know something’s wrong. Because my nervousness tells me I care. The second that disappears, we’ve got a problem.

“So I relish the moments when my heart’s beating fast and I’m nervous. I always forget the first line. Whenever I’m about to go on, the first line will go out  my head.  That’s nerves.

“But when I stand in front of people, it always comes back. It means I care about being here, I care about the people watching.”

Thank goodness for a good therapist, that s**t really helped

Cynthia

When those jitters hit, she relies  on strict pre-performance rituals. She said: “Breathing for me is always key.

“And I always say a prayer before I go on stage. Also, nervousness can sometimes be the mirror looking at yourself.

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“So what I try to do is turn the performance into something I can give. So I ask to be used like a vessel.

“Let whatever I’m singing be for whoever is out there listening. For whoever needs it.”

LOOSE Women star Ruth Langsford has revealed she gets ‘frightened’ over having ‘senior moments’ after losing her dad to Alzheimer’s.

The 65-year-old beloved television host has opened up about her health fears after her parents were both diagnosed with dementia and her dad died from complications of the disease.

Ruth’s father Dennis sadly died in 2012 from complications from dementia.

The TV star’s mother, Joan, 94, was also diagnosed with the disease. 

Because of the way in which Alzheimer’s is influenced by generics, Ruth has revealed her health fears after experiencing “senior moments”.

Speaking to The Mirror this weekend, Ruth got candid when she said: “All the time, literally all the time, if I ever have a senior moment where I go, ‘what’s her name again?’, somebody that I know quite well, and I have a complete and utter blank, it really frightens me.”

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She added: “I’m 65 now, my dad was officially diagnosed when he was 72.

“But looking back on it, we think he was displaying signs, we just didn’t know what they were – but he was in his late 60s and I’m 65.”

Ruth continued: “Of course I worry about it with both parents having had dementia, but I just think, what will be will be.”

Back in August of this year, Ruth opened up about her mother’s diagnosis and how she and her family found it “doubly hard”.

She told Hello! Magazine: “It’s very upsetting when your loved one is given that diagnosis.

“For my family, we found that doubly hard as my dad had Alzheimer’s, so we knew what was ahead for us and my mum.”

Ruth revealed at the time: “At the moment, mum knows who I am, she always recognises me and is very happy to see me.

“I know that that could change at any time, it did with my dad, and that is heartbreaking.”

Discussing her dad’s death in 2017 in an episode of Loose Women, Ruth said: “I was grieving and losing my dad but my mum was losing the love of her life, the man she married and had children with.

“They had years and years of memories.

“You don’t often hear people talking about that side of it.

“When my dad went into care, my mum was so distraught…

“I’m sorry,” she said, getting emotional and wiping a tear from her eye at the time.

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“You do hope, but you know they probably won’t get better.

“I’m sorry, sometimes I just can’t talk about it. It’s thinking about my mum, that side of it that gets to me.”