Osbournes hope to reunite for Christmas

The family of recovering rock star Ozzy Osbourne are hoping to reunite for Christmas, their agents said today.

Son Jack, 18, flew in from Los Angeles to London’s Heathrow Airport to see his hospitalised dad today but it is still not clear if the 55-year-old rocker will be allowed home for Christmas.

Ozzy fractured a neck vertebra, crushed an arm, broke eight ribs and his collarbone in a quadbike crash at his Buckinghamshire mansion earlier this month and wife Sharon said she feared he might die.

But doctors at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, where the former Black Sabbath wildman is being treated, said he was already up and about and making a good recovery.

Hospital medical director Dr Dick Jack said: “Mr Osbourne is very much better and continues to make steady progress.

“He has been breathing independently for five days now, is eating well and no longer confined to bed.”

Osbourne had been sedated on a ventilator to help ease his breathing, but managed to stick his thumbs up and his tongue out at daughter Kelly as soon as he was conscious last week.

He and Kelly are riding high at the top of the charts with their duet cover of the old Black Sabbath ballad Changes and are among favourites for the Christmas Number One spot – but any hopes of live performances have been dashed by the accident.

The family, who have become huge stars from the MTV documentary series about their everyday lives, had hoped to all spend Christmas at their mansion in England.

But a spokesman for them today said: “Jack has arrived, so they’ll all be together but we still don’t know about Ozzy. That’s down to the hospital to decide.”

The hospital said it was unsure at this time if the singer would be discharged for Christmas.