Jack Osbourne and his wife, Aree Gearhart, have welcomed their second child together and named her in honor of Jack’s late father, Ozzy Osbourne.
“Introducing Ozzy Matilda Osbourne,” the couple announced via a joint Instagram post on Wednesday, March 11.
An accompanying video of Ozzy Matilda in her cradle confirmed that the little one was born at 8:49 a.m. on March 5. The newborn weighed 7 lbs, 12 oz and was 19 inches at the time of her birth.
Jack, 40, and Aree, 34, are already parents to 3-year-old daughter Maple. The Osbournes star also shares three older children — Pearl, 13, Andy, 10, and Minnie, 7 — with ex-wife Lisa Stelly.
Jack revealed to The Sun on Sunday in December 2025 that he and Aree were expecting a baby. In that interview, Jack described the pregnancy as a blessing amid his grieving over Ozzy, who died at age 76 following a battle with Parkinson’s disease in July 2025.
“It’s awesome,” Jack explained at the time. “I think it’s been partly a healthy distraction, partly healing – probably in that kind of ‘full cycle’ category, in a weird way.”
He went on, “It’s very much taken energy out of the grieving side of things and parked in a bit more hopefulness. It’s been easy for me – I think it’s been a lot harder for my wife!”
Jack confirmed that he and Aree were able to tell Ozzy he was going to be grandfather once again shortly before his death.
The Osbournes made the stunning announcement last July that Ozzy had died 17 days after he performed his final Back to the Beginning concert in his hometown of Birmingham, England.
“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,” Ozzzy’s family said in a statement to Us Weekly on July 22, 2025. “He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
In an October 2025 vlog, Jack reflected on his immediate reaction when a family friend came to his L.A. home in the middle of the night to break the news of Ozzy’s death.
“Immediately, I don’t know … [I felt] just pain. Sadness and pain,” he recalled. “So many thoughts. You go through this of like, feeling sad and frustrated and angry. … But there was a level of like, OK, he’s not suffering anymore, he’s not struggling, and that is something.”
Jack admitted that his family had been concerned about Ozzy’s health in the final weeks of his life. (Ozzy went public with his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2020. He retired from touring in 2023 after suffering a serious spinal injury.)
“I just think he was done,” Jack explained on the “Hate to Break It to Ya” podcast in February. “I’d just left England to come home after the show. I went to the Back to the Beginning gig with the family and we all hung around England for a few weeks. [Then,] I had to come back with [my] kids.”
He went on, “Right before I left, I was putting [my dad] to bed and he was brushing his teeth or whatever. He was looking at himself in the mirror, and he goes, ‘I think I’m going to cut my hair off.’ He’s, like, ‘I’ve retired. I’m not a rockstar anymore.’”
Jack suggested that “people do have a choice to a degree” in terms of when they die.
“I think if you’re sick and your body’s primed and in a place where it’s, like, ‘Hey, you got a choice here.’ On a deep, spiritual level, I do think either consciously or subconsciously you’re, like, ‘OK, I’m ready to move on,’” he said. “You see it all the time with elderly couples where one will pass and then, two days later, the perfectly healthy partner will pass just ‘cause they are, like, ‘No, I don’t want to be here.’”
Jack, his mother, Sharon Osbourne, sister Kelly Osbourne and her partner Sid Wilson were present for a tribute to Ozzy’s life and legacy at the Grammy Awards in February. The star-studded segment featured Post Malone, Duff McKagan and Slash of Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Andrew Watt performing the Black Sabbath track “War Pigs.”
