Kelly escapes fire at Osbourne house

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are recovering today after a fire ripped through their house in Buckinghamshire.

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 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.”