Before Kardashians He built a plain empire, before D'Amelios turned into a tickling ticker in original programming, and before families like Chrisley and Hogan broadcast his dirty laundry millions, it was "Osbournes ".

When MTV debuted "Osbournes" in March 2002. years, spectators were not sure what to expect from a heavy metal legend and his chaotic household. What they got was clean, unfiltered gold.

Ozzy OsbourneOnce known only as a wild Frontman of the Black Saturday, suddenly confused, muttering the patriarch in vague slippers, trying to break their wife Sharon And their rebellious teenagers, Kelly and Jack. It was a cultural reset.

At the time the reality of television was still in the amount, "Osbournes" broke the mold.

There was no elimination of competition, without a prize connection, without great filters, just a messy, hilarious and deep human reality family of rock stars trying to move in family life. The viewers were hooked. At the time, the show became MTV's highest grade ever, earned Emmi and turned Osbournes in the names of households for a brand new generation.

And the genre was born with that.

Without an abstinence of walk around the house shouting "Sharon!" While the household of pets is eluded, it would probably not be "to give up with the Kardashs". The draft was already laid. A family larger than life, personal drama played in real time, and the crew of the camera catches everything. The Kardashian-Jenner Clan may have raised the formula for the status of the Empire, but Osbournes created a PlayBook.

He shows "Hogan best knows," Chrisley knows the best, "the" D'Amelio Show "followed the same model ... Take a glorious or viral family, pull the curtain and let the drama take place. It is a format that and today manages to succeed, right now with a flutter dances, influencer and scandals on social media.

But in the core of everything was Ozzy, often confused, always fun and completely real.

While "Osbournes" cadapulated Ozzy and his family in a new kind of glory, the heavy metal revealed that the reality TV hit took over a serious journey in his mental health, calling him one of the "worst decisions" of his life.

In an interview in 2022. With Metal hammerOzzy admitted that the signing for the MTV show was financially tempting, but emotionally drained.

"All I can tell you is this. If someone offer you a sh-acting dough to be on television, you should be a mug to kick it out," he said. "I thought it would be a piece of cake. But you have a camera that lives in your house for three years and see how you feel in the end. You feel like a laboratory rat f-cking."

Premier in 2002, "Osbournes" followed Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly as they navigated his chaotic life, dogs barking, teen drama, and all in what the MTV show became. But behind the joy filled, Ozzy disintegrated.

"He came to the point where I was badly falling apart," he admitted. "You can't relax. It doesn't matter where you go to wet, it's paranoid that there is a camera there."

Despite stress, Ozzy recognized the undisputed cultural effect of the show, even if he does not want to do it anymore. "Should I do that again? That's now Kardashianville. The world has changed, man."

Although he had regret, Osbournes gave a unaffected view of a man behind music, and it helped to redefine which reality TV could be, by paving every series of celebrities that followed.