Ozzy Osbourne’s former actuality TV crew is grieving the heavy steel icon after his surprising demise at 76.
Cameron Glendenning, who labored as a digicam operator and technical supervisor on “The Osbournes” from the top of its first season in 2002 to its fourth and ultimate in 2005, broke his silence shortly after the Black Sabbath legend’s passing.
“I’m definitely mourning,” Glendenning solely advised The Put up in a telephone interview. “But I also have a huge feeling of gratitude just for being a part of that crazy time and place, and just being around a person like Ozzy was just so incredibly rewarding to me, especially in my earlier life.”
“I can’t even describe how f – – king surreal it all was,” he added.
Glendenning additionally revealed that he and different crew members from “The Osbournes” have been exchanging messages ever since Ozzy’s household introduced his demise on Tuesday, July 23.
“I just texted Greg [Johnston] to offer my sympathies because I know Greg would be hurting a lot today,” he stated. “My friend Lucas [O’Brien] is in Miami now, and he reached out just kind of reminiscing a little bit.”
Johnston served as a producer on “The Osbournes” for all 4 seasons of the favored MTV actuality present. O’Brien labored as a digicam assistant for 13 of the present’s 52-episode run.
“There are a number of people from that crew, and we’re all still friends,” Glendenning added. “We all still talk very regularly. We definitely created a family on that show. It was really special. It really was.”
As for his time filming “The Osbournes,” Glendenning stated that he by no means took the expertise with no consideration.
“I always try to just soak it all up, and I think I did,” he shared. “And I definitely feel very lucky to have experienced so much with those guys. I’ve got stories for a lifetime.”
After engaged on “The Osbournes” in 2005, Glendenning later reunited with the “Crazy Train” singer in 2020 when he served because the cinematographer for “Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne.”
Regardless that almost 15 years had handed, Glendenning stated that Ozzy by no means modified.
“He was such a working-class kid, and he was so down to earth, and he remained that way forever,” Glendenning shared. “Even after attaining the status that he grew to have, he was always that same person.”
“He never made you feel anything less than an equal,” Glendenning continued. “I was 25 years old, I think, when I first started working with him. And I was a kid, man, and I was looking at a guy that had been a legend for 40 years already at that point.”
“He was just open-eyed. He wanted to have fun. It could have been me, or it could have been the president of Sony Records. It didn’t matter. That’s what was so cool about Ozzy. He was just totally down to earth.”
Glendenning was not the one member of Ozzy’s former actuality TV crew to talk out following his demise.
Sue Kolinsky, a producer on “The Osbournes,” advised The Put up that she had been “on the phone all day” speaking with different individuals she labored with on the fact present.
Ozzy’s household was the primary to announce that the “Shot in the Dark” rocker died Tuesday following an extended battle with Parkinson’s illness and different well being points.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” they stated in a press release to The Put up.
“He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time,” they added.
The assertion was signed by Ozzy’s spouse of over 40 years, Sharon Osbourne, and 4 of the “War Pigs” singer’s six kids, together with Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis.
Different tributes have continued to pour in for the “Mama, I’m Coming Home” singer.
Because the world mourns the rock god, Ozzy’s former actuality TV crew is considering the late Black Sabbath frontman’s household within the wake of his passing.
“My heartfelt sympathies go out to Sharon, Jack, Kelly, the rest of his family and everybody that’s worked hard along the way. I think we’re all definitely mourning him,” Glendenning advised The Put up.
“There’s not much that I could say that would be of comfort to them other than to maybe just show them how much he meant to everybody that he touched, like all of us that worked for them and how much we all still care about them as a family,” he added.
“And that’s for real good reasons,” Glendenning concluded. “That’s cause they deserve it.”
