When did he get on the show?
Ozzy does have interest in his kids lives but there still is some impression that he's trying to be their "cool friend" maybe more than their dad.
One of the daughters has refused to participate in the program.
The hostile housing situations that MTV has been crafting on "The Real World" are far worse. There are people who have serious mental issues who are thrown into rooming with strangers for a tv show. The pressure seems to be there to "cut loose" and party hard or hook up with one or more of the roommates. One woman was a chronic alcoholic and almost died in a season opener. Another woman had mental problems from a tick bite. And so on.
It may appear that they are trying for "slice of life" but the producers seem to be trying for trysts and conflicts to keep things "interesting".
Aimee, their now 19 year old daughter refused to do the show because she wanted to keep her privacy. She is also trying to become a 'rock star' and wanted to do so on her own without the publicity of The Osbournes.
She blew it. Kelly is now all the rage and sang at the MTV Movie Awards.
And one of the factors that has made The Osbournes a success is that it is real, whereas The Real World is manufactured.
She just had mental problems. She was faking the Lyme disease. No doubt about it.
I met some of the people in 'The Real World' when they did it in Seattle. I was working at a bowling alley at the time, and they came and bowled there. Of course, the cameras and all were there, too. So, one of them, a woman (and a hottie, BTW) comes and talks to me while the camera crew was down with the rest of them on the lanes...
She asked if she could use our phone (our company phone, not the pay phone) -- quietly, and out of the way. She told me that MTV gets to record any call she makes, so she was hoping I would let her get in a call to someone off the record, as it were.
I hooked her up, of course. Not because I was attracted to her (I was), and not because she seemed like an OK person (I'm not sure if she was), but because I felt sorry for her. She looked so...desperate. She thanked me afterwards but no, alas, I didn't get a date out of it. Heh.
I've never watched the Real World and, in fact, never watch MTV. After seeing what they did to that woman, I had even less desire to do so.
Tuor
Give me liberty or give me death.
For someone complaining about "The Real World" you sure seem to know a lot about the cast, episodes, etc
When did he get on the show?