Ozzy and Sharon looking for smaller home

Reality TV stars Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne are preparing to swap their Beverly Hills mansion for a humble “small house with a small garden”, it emerged today.

The couple have put their famous home on the market, ready to downsize when children Jack and Kelly fly the nest.

“The kids are growing up, they’re moving out,” Sharon told the New York Post.

“Once Kelly and Jackie-boy go, it’s way too big for us. They want their own homes now, and Ozzy and I want a small house with a small garden for the dogs.”

As the fourth and final series of The Osbournes launches on US television tonight, the X-Factor judge admitted the search for privacy was “a little difficult” these days.

The family’s MTV reality show has attracted widespread publicity, turning their luxury homes, both in the US and Buckinghamshire, into tourist magnets.

The couple hit the headlines late last year when former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy confronted a burglar who made off with £2 million worth of jewellery from their Chalfont St Peter pad.

This time they hope that by putting their US home “quietly” up for sale they may avert unwanted attention.

“We’re not going to put a ’for sale’ sign outside, but a few brokers in town know that it’s on the market,” Sharon told the US tabloid.

Meanwhile, 19-year-old son Jack is working on an ITV extreme sports show and is about to celebrate two years of sobriety, she revealed.

“He’s taken up mountain climbing and tai chi,” Sharon added. “He’s really soul-searching and he’s going through a great stage in his life right now.”

Daughter Kelly, 20, has been starring in a new US drama, Life As We Know It, and plans to release a new album in March. At the end of next summer she is scheduled to take the lead role in Hairspray on Broadway, her mother said.

Ozzy too, has a clean bill of health, having kicked the painkillers to which he became addicted after a quad bike accident almost a year ago.

“He was on a lot of drugs – loads and loads of pain pills,” Sharon added.

“But he’s in the condition today where he can say, ’Thank God I’ve come through that and I’m not that way anymore.”’