Ozzy Osbourne ‘dying to make more music’ with Andrew Watt – Entertainment News

On Mar 22, 2024

BANG Showbiz – Mar 22, 2024 / 4:25 pm | Story: 478444

Ozzy Osbourne is “dying to make more music” with super producer Andrew Watt – but claims he’s busy working with Lady Gaga.

The 75-year-old rocker – who was forced to retire from touring due to ongoing health issues, including Parkinson’s disease and problems with his spine – is counting down the days until he’s back working with the studio wizard behind his 2020 album ‘Ordinary Man’ and 2022’s ‘Patient Number 9’, but he’s seemingly preoccupied with the ‘Born this Way’ hitmakers’ new music.

He told Rolling Stone: “I’ve always gotta be doing something, or it drives me crazy.

“I’ve got a haunted head.”

He added: “I’m waiting for [producer] Andrew Watt to give me a call.

“He’s been working with Lady Gaga. I’m dying to make more music.”

Andrew produced The Rolling Stones and Gaga’s song featuring Stevie Wonder, ‘Sweet Sounds of Heaven’, from their 2023 LP ‘Hackney Diamonds’.

The former Black Sabbath frontman also opened up about his solo nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and how it’s “driving” him “mad” waiting to hear if he’s made it through.

He said of the nod: “It’s been driving me mad.

“It’s an honour that I’m nominated, but I’m not expecting to get in. There’s Mariah Carey, there’s Cher, Lenny Kravitz. I’m up against some serious people. If I get in, I get in. If I don’t, I don’t.”

Ozzy would love to return to the stage, but admitted he struggles to even “stand up right”.

He said: “I would love to, but I can’t stand up right.

“Maybe I’ll do something one day. I miss it terribly.”

Asked if he could manage a shorter performance at the ceremony, he replied: “Maybe. We’ll see.”

The ‘Crazy Train’ rocker was previously inducted alongside his Black Sabbath bandmates in 2006.

Speaking after the nominations were announced, Ozzy said in a statement: “I’m deeply honoured to receive this news from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“To be one of the few musicians who’s being considered for a second entry, now as a solo artist, is something I could never have imagined. After 44 years as a solo artist the fact that I can continue to record music and receive this recognition is something I am incredibly proud of.”

The late Sinead O’Connor – who died last July, aged 56 – is also nominated, alongside the likes of Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Cher, and Oasis.

The list of nominees also includes Dave Matthews Band, Eric B. and Rakim, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Jane’s Addiction, Kool and the Gang, Lenny Kravitz, Ozzy Osbourne, Sade and A Tribe Called Quest.

Honourees will be announced in April and the ceremony will be staged in the autumn of 2024.

BANG Showbiz – Mar 22, 2024 / 4:24 pm | Story: 478443

Nicole Eggert is feeling “the best [she] has ever felt]” amid her breast cancer battle.

The 52-year-old actress – who is known for starring as Summer Quinn on ‘Baywatch’ in the 1990s – was informed that she was suffering from stage two of the disease in early December 2023 and is now just trying to “control” what she can.

Speaking on ‘The Tamron Hall Show’, she said: “Well, it is the irony because people say, ‘How are you feeling?’ and I say, ‘I feel the best I’ve ever felt.’ But for me, it was about controlling the controllables right, and what can I do? I’m gonna give chemo its day and its respect and what can I do to help my body along and for me, that was mind, body, spirit.”

The former ‘Charles in Charge’ star – who has Dilyn, 25, with ex-Justin Herwick as well as 12-year-old Keegan from a different relationship – had initially mistaken her symptoms to be signs of the menopause until she found a lump.

She told People: “It really was throbbing and hurting. I immediately went to my general practitioner and she told me I had to immediately go get it looked at. But the problem was I just couldn’t get an appointment. Everything was booked. So I had to wait until the end of November to get it done. This journey’s been rough for me. This hasn’t been a breezy sale through life.

“I always read inspirational quotes and corny stuff, but it gets me through.

“I can definitely feel it. It’s there. It needs to be taken out. So it’s just a matter of do I have to do treatment before the surgery or can they perform the surgery and then I do the treatment after.”

BANG Showbiz – Mar 22, 2024 / 4:23 pm | Story: 478441

Kathy Griffin was hit with death threats, “dumped” by the showbiz industry and had to shell out $1 million in legal fees over her infamous Donald Trump severed head gag.

The comic, 63, posted an image of herself in 2017 of her holding an effigy of the 77-year-old former ‘Apprentice’ judge’s face dripping with what appeared to be fake blood – leading to her being fired by CNN and having stand-up shows axed after it…