Fire at Osbourne mansion

Fire broke out at the country home of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne early today, a fire service has confirmed.

The couple’s daughter Kelly had left the house to film scenes for her latest show, Project Catwalk, shortly before the blaze was discovered, a spokesman for the family said.

He said the rest of the family is away and none had been in the house in Jordans, near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire at the time.

A spokesman for Buckinghamshire Fire Service said an automatic fire alarm alerted crews at 7.25am followed by a 999 call, thought to be from the housekeeper.

The fire was confined to the hallway of the house and has caused some, relatively minor, smoke damage.

He said: “We think it may have been caused by an electrical fault in a lamp. It was caught in the nick of time, if we hadn’t been alerted so quickly it could have been worse.”

One female member of staff was treated for smoke inhalation, he added.