How Ozzy Osbourne went from Prince of Darkness to original king of reality TV with ‘The Osbournes’

It was a crazy train. 

On Tuesday, Ozzy Osbourne died at age 76, five years after he announced his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in January 2020.

He passed away, “surrounded by love,” his family said in a statement to The Post. 

The rock star was the Prince of Darkness, the father of heavy metal, but perhaps the strangest Ozzy milestone is starring on one of the first reality TV shows –  with the seminal series, “The Osbournes,” which aired on MTV from 2002 to 2005. 

“We realized early on that anything Ozzy did was going to be funny,” Sue Kolinsky, who worked as a producer on “The Osbournes,” exclusively told The Post. “Like making a milkshake – we were gonna have [that be] three minutes of an episode. He was so funny, and he had no idea how funny he was.”

She added, “No one ever said to Ozzy, ‘Hey, can you say that again?’ Whatever you shot, that’s what we had to use. And that’s what made the show so brilliant, because it really was real.”