OSBOURNE FAMILY

1ST XMAS WITHOUT LEGEND OZZY

- BY SARAH ROBERTSON

FOR Kelly Osbourne, Christmas will never be the same again after the death of her beloved father Ozzy.

This year, as the Osbournes face their first December 25 without him, the family including mum Sharon are planning to honour the rock star.

Kelly, 41, says the day always held good memories - despite the rock wildman's efforts "to ruin Christmas every year because he was Scrooge" as well as hiding his drugs paraphernalia in the oven.

Ozzy died on July 22, aged 76, less than three weeks after a homecoming charity concert with his band Black Sabbath at Villa Park, a stone's throw from his childhood home in Aston, Birmingham.

He had Parkinson's as well as numerous health problems relating to a life-threatening quad bike accident in 2003 in which he broke his neck.

On the looming milestone first Christmas without Ozzy, Kelly says: “Christmas will never be the same. I will never be the same. The person I was before he died does not exist any more. It changes you. He was magical. There is no one like him.”

Kelly will spend the day at her mum's in England, joined by half-brother Louis and his family plus cousins - but not sister Aimee, 42, or brother Jack, 40, who are both in LA.