It may be the first Halloween without Ozzy, but the Osbourne family is honoring the late rock icon in the cutest way. On Friday, Kelly Osbourne shared a playful video of her two-year-old son Sidney chomping the head off a stuffed bat — a nod to his grandpa’s famous moment — and giggling afterward.
“Learned from the greatest, Papa!” Kelly wrote in the caption, with Ozzy’s “Crazy Train” playing in the background.
The original bat incident took place in 1982 during one of Ozzy’s solo shows. At the time, he had been tossing raw meat into the audience as part of the act, and fans started throwing things back. In Des Moines, someone hurled a bat onto the stage. Thinking it was fake, Ozzy bit into it — only to realize it was real — which led to massive headlines and a round of rabies shots. “It got to the point where people expected me to do crazier and crazier things,” Ozzy once said. “I’ll tell you what, guys — it ain’t fun when you get them rabies shots.”
The plush bat Sidney plays with in the video is actually sold on Ozzy’s official website for $40, paying tribute to the “legendary moment in rock history.”
Fans jumped into the comments of Kelly’s TikTok to point out how much Sidney resembles his grandfather, even making side-by-side photos and calling them twins. Kelly reposted a few on her Instagram Stories. “He looks like him,” one fan wrote. “He’s reborn,” said another. A third added, “I know he saw that and is laughing from heaven.”
Ozzy passed away in late July at 76, and years earlier told People he knew the bat moment would follow him forever. “I mean, I’ve achieved quite a lot in my life, but all people do is go, ‘Ozzy, what do bats really taste like? Was it dead?’” he said. “But I’ll tell you what, when they gave me the rabies shot, I wasn’t smiling.”
Kelly has been candid about processing grief since her father’s death. Over the weekend, she posted about facing her “first birthday without my dad,” sharing photos with Ozzy and a few of the heartfelt cards he used to write for her. “Every year the thing I looked forward to the most was spending the day with him and the cards he would write me,” she shared. “Knowing that I will never get one again shatters my heart.”
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