Jack Osbourne Names Newborn Daughter After His Late Father, Ozzy

Jack Osbourne has announced that he and his wife Aree Gearhart have welcomed a baby girl.

The former I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! campmate shared the news in an emotional joint Instagram post with Aree on Wednesday night.

In their post, the couple announced their daughter had been born on 5 March, and they’d named her Ozzy Matilda Osbourne.

The joyful news comes nearly eight months after rock icon Ozzy Osbourne died at his family home last year, at the age of 76. 

“Introducing Ozzy Matilda Osbourne,” the caption read, alongside a short video of the newborn.

Next to the newborn in the video is a stuffed bat plushie, in a reference to one of the Black Sabbath frontman’s most iconic emblems.

Jack and Aree are already parents to a three-year-old daughter, Maple. He also has three more daughters, Pearl, Andy and Minnie, with his first wife, Lisa Stelly.

Back in December, Jack told The Sun On Sunday that his late father had learned he would be a grandfather once more before he died last July, and admitted the pregnancy had been a welcome distraction for the grieving family.

“It’s been partly a healthy distraction, partly healing – probably in that kind of ‘full cycle’ category, in a weird way,” Jack explained. “It’s very much taken energy out of the grieving side of things and parked in a bit more hopefulness.”

“We’re super-excited. It was sort of planned, I should say,” he added, before sharing that he and his new arrival was coming a little earlier than they had previously expected.

“It’s definitely something that we were wanting to pursue and somehow it happened, miraculously,” Jack said.

Earlier this month, Jack’s mum and sister, Sharon and Kelly Osbourne appeared at the Brit Awards to accept a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award on Ozzy’s behalf. a