Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne speak onstage during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Sharon Osbourne has given her first interview since husband Ozzy Osbourne‘s death, speaking with Piers Morgan on his Uncensored YouTube show.
During the hourlong talk, Sharon retells her last conversation with Ozzy prior to his passing on July 22.
“The night before he passed, it was like 4:30, and he said, ‘Wake up,'” Sharon recalls. “He said, ‘Kiss me,’ and then he said, ‘Hug me tight.'”
“He used to get up early and he would say, ‘I’ve got to go down and work out,'” Sharon continues. “He went downstairs, worked out for about 20 minutes, and passed away.”
Sharon says she found out Ozzy had died upon hearing “screaming in the house.”
“I ran downstairs and there he was,” Sharon says. “They were trying to resuscitate him, and I’m like, ‘Don’t. Leave him. You can’t. He’s gone.’ I knew instantly he’s gone.”
Ozzy died just over two weeks after he reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates at the Back to the Beginning concert on July 5. It was announced ahead of time that the show would mark the final live performance by Ozzy, who’d been dealing with a number of health issues in recent years.
Sharon tells Morgan that Ozzy’s doctors told him, “If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it.”
“He said, ‘I’m doing it. I want to do it and I’m doing it,'” Sharon says. “He just wanted it so bad to say thank you to everyone. And I think he honestly did know that he was done. It was his time.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Sharon shares that Ozzy had kept a journal every day and that some of them might get published.
Beyoncé attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Disney’s ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ at Dolby Theatre on December 09, 2024, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Music superstar Beyoncé, actress Nicole Kidman and tennis legend Venus Williams have been named co-chairs of the 2026 Met Gala, alongside Anna Wintour, Vogue announced Wednesday.
Beyoncé is returning to “fashion’s biggest night out” after a decade. The Cowboy Carter singer and songwriter last attended the Met Gala in 2016, when Taylor Swift and Idris Elba co-chaired the gala alongside Wintour and Jony Ive, the former chief design officer for Apple who now runs design firm LoveFrom.
Next year’s gala is set to take place on May 4, 2026.
Following this year’s theme of “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” next year’s Met Gala will embody the theme of “Costume Art.”
The annual Met Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Met Costume Institute in New York City. The institute’s corresponding Costume Art spring exhibition will open after the gala on May 10, 2026, and will run until Jan. 10, 2027.
Musicians Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley at Walt Grace Vintage on January 27, 2018 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Mark Weiss/Getty Images)
KISS’ Gene Simmons is apologizing for comments he made about the death of his bandmate Ace Frehley.
In a recent interview with the New York Post, Simmons blamed Frehley’s death on his own “bad decisions.”
“He refused [advice] from people that cared about him – including yours truly – to try to change his lifestyle,” Simmons said. “In and out of bad decisions. Falling down the stairs — I’m not a doctor — doesn’t kill you. There may have been other issues, and it breaks my heart.”
He added, “The saddest thing – you reap what you shall sow, unfortunately.”
Simmons is regretting his comments and has posted an apology on X.
“On reflection, I was wrong for using the words I used. I humbly apologize,” he wrote. “My hand to God i didn’t intended to hurt Ace or his legacy but upon rereading my words, I see how it hurt everyone. Again, I apologize. I’ve always loved Ace. Always.”
Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes performs on day 3 of the 2025 Shaky Knees Music Festival at Piedmont Park on September 21, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Scott Legato/WireImage)
We said, “hey, what’s going on?” How about a new 4 Non Blondes album?
The reunited “What’s Up?” outfit will release the long-awaited sophomore follow-up to their 1992 debut, Bigger, Better, Faster, More!, in 2026. Frontwoman Linda Perry will also put out a new solo album in the coming year.
4 Non Blondes first split up in 1994. They reunited for a one-off performance in 2014 and again for a run of shows in 2025.
“I put my feelers out into the universe,” Perry says of the current reunion. “Playing some songs with 4 Non Blondes just seemed like a fun thing to do, in a way it hadn’t before now.”
“I’ve been behind the scenes for far too long,” Perry continues. “I want to step out to be the artist I am. I’m just open to all the possibilities that I’ve created around me. I manifest things all the time.”
Despite only really being active for less than five years, the music of 4 Non Blondes continues to endure, especially the single “What’s Up?” The track had an especially big year in 2025 thanks to a viral TikTok mashup with the Nicki Minaj song “Beez in the Trap.” Celebrities including Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and Paramore‘s Hayley Williams have taken part in the trend.
4 Non Blondes will wrap up 2025 with a performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026, airing Dec. 31 on ABC.
The surviving members of Led Zeppelin – Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones – reunited for their first concert together in 19 years, the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at London’s O2 Arena. They were backed by Jason Bonham, son of their late drummer, John Bonnham.
The band headlined the show with a 16-song set that included such songs as “Ramble On,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “The Song Remains The Same,” “Kashmir,” “Whole Lotta Love” and “Rock and Roll.”
It was the third time they reunited since their breakup in 1980 and the last time that the surviving members performed together on stage.
Celebration Day, a concert film documenting the performance, was released in October 2012; highlights aired on the BBC that December.
View of the Cour Napoleon, a historic courtyard in the Louvre Museum and the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France on November 12th, 2025. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
(PARIS and LONDON) — Nobody was monitoring the live feed.
As masked men hacked a hole in a window at the Louvre Museum in Paris in October, a security camera inside the gallery was picking up the spot where they were working, Noel Corbin, the head of France’s inspectorate general of culture told the country’s Senate at a hearing on Wednesday.
As men clambered into the world-famous museum, nobody was actively monitoring that specific feed, legislators were told. And, even as the robbers collected their loot — allegedly stealing French crown jewels worth some $102 million — the security staff at a bank of screens weren’t yet focused on the camera catching the robbery, Corbin said.
The camera’s zoom wasn’t “activated” until 9:38 a.m., about four minutes after the robbery began, the Senate was told. By then, the blink-and-you-miss-it robbery was all but over.
The Senate was told on Wednesday that there had been “insufficient screens” in the security guard’s control room to simultaneously view images from all the cameras in the museum.
While the live video feed from one the Apollo Gallery appeared to have been transmitted during the robbery, it wasn’t immediately clear why it wasn’t among those being monitored remotely by a live person. Another camera near the scene wasn’t working that day, Corbin said.
The latest details on apparent faults in security at the world’s most-visited museum came as the French government and law enforcement sought through a sprawling investigation to understand how those alleged lapses in procedure and equipment may have worked in favor of the robbers.
The robbery suspects fled on motorbikes, police said at the time of the heist. At least seven people have since been arrested, five of whom have been formally charged in connection to the heist, French officials said. But the irreplaceable jewels taken during the Sunday morning heist have not yet been recovered.
The Senate on Wednesday heard new details on what appeared to have happened during the heist, including that there had been “insufficient screens.” That lack of screens had been highlighted in a security audit carried out earlier in the year, one of five such audits that had been carried out in the last decade, the watchdog said.
One of those audits, the one carried out in 2019 by a private auditor, had specifically focused on the Apollo Gallery, the watchdog said, adding that another in 2015 had focused on the museum’s computer systems.
The Senate was told that the findings of those audits included details about security cameras, some of which were described as “obsolete.” It was not immediately clear if the camera faced at the window in the Apollo Gallery was characterized as such.
As the robbery unfolded, the Senate heard on Wednesday, members of a private Securitas security team arrived outside the museum quickly enough that they may have stopped the robbers from lighting their vehicle — a moving ladder — on fire, thus apparently saving crucial evidence that’s led to arrests.
But if they had arrived at least 30 seconds earlier they could have stopped the robbers from escaping, the Senate was told, with the watchdog adding that a quicker viewing of the live feed from the internal security camera might have made the difference.
Heavy rain fall (Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — An atmospheric river event has been slamming the Pacific Northwest with rain, and the flood threat is far from over.
In the last two days, 2 to 4 inches of rain fell at lower elevations and 4 to 10 inches was recorded at higher elevations across western Washington and Oregon.
On Wednesday, the rain will focus on hard-hit Washington, inundating the state with nearly constant rainfall. Four to 8 inches is forecast in higher elevations and 2 to 4 inches is expected in lower elevations.
Record flooding is forecast for some rivers, especially the Skagit River at Mount Vernon and Concrete, Washington, which could swell 3 to 5 feet above record levels.
The rain will continue in Washington on Thursday, but it will be much lighter. However, levees will be challenged starting Thursday afternoon.
Central and northern Idaho will also get heavy rain Wednesday and Thursday, which may lead to flooding.
Meanwhile, more winter storms are ahead for the Midwest and Northeast.
A storm that dumped snow in Minneapolis and Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday will move through the Great Lakes and the Northeast on Wednesday, bringing snow to higher elevations and rain to lower elevations. Three to 6 inches of snow is forecast for some areas in upstate New York and northwestern Pennsylvania.
The next winter storm will move into the Midwest on Wednesday night, bringing 3 to 6 inches of snow from Iowa to Kentucky on Thursday.
Diana Ross on ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026′ (Courtesy DCP)
Diana Ross has made her New Year’s plans.
The 81-year-old singing icon has been announced as the 2026 headliner for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, where she’ll perform live in New York’s Times Square.
“Together we begin a new year,” Ross says. “Let’s embrace a new beginning, new opportunities, new joy — a celebration of love, where we all come together as we begin 2026.”
Ross joins a huge lineup of already announced performers, including Mariah Carey, Chappell Roan, Charlie Puth, Chance the Rapper, Rick Springfield, Busta Rhymes, T.I. & Wyclef Jean, Demi Lovato, Pitbull, Lil Jon, 4 NonBlondes and more.
The ABC special airs on Dec. 31 starting at 8 p.m. ET. In addition to the Times Square broadcast, it will feature performances from Las Vegas, Chicago and Puerto Rico. More than 85 songs will be performed before the show wraps up at 4 a.m. ET. It will also air the next day on Hulu.
Jacob Lee Bard, 48, is accused of shooting and killing a person on the Kentucky State University campus on Dec. 9, 2025. (Franklin County Jail)
(FRANKFORT, Ky.) —One student is dead and another critically injured in a shooting Tuesday at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, according to police.
A suspect in the shooting, who is not a student at the university, is in custody, police said in a press release, identifying him as Jacob Lee Bard, 48, of Evansville, Indiana.
He has been booked into jail on charges of murder and first-degree assault.
Preliminary information indicates the shooting was caused by a personal dispute and was not a random active shooter situation, an official briefed on the situation told ABC News.
“This was not a mass shooting or a random incident based on what I’ve been told, and the suspected shooter is already in custody,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in a video message. “That means that while this was scary, there is no ongoing threat and I believe our families are safe.”
The Frankfort Police Department said it responded to an incident on the school’s campus Tuesday afternoon “regarding an active aggressor.”
The shooting occurred near Whitney M. Young Jr. Hall, a residence hall on the south side of the campus, according to the school.
Two Kentucky State University students were shot in the incident, authorities said. One has since died while the other was transported to a hospital in stable but critical condition, Frankfort police said.
“At this time, there is no ongoing threat to the campus community,” the school said in a statement to students.
The investigation is ongoing. The university said it is working closely with local and state law enforcement.
All classes and activities at the campus, which is located approximately 25 miles northwest of Lexington, have been canceled for the rest of the week, school officials said.
“Today, indeed, was a senseless tragedy,” Kentucky State University President Koffi Akakpo said at a press briefing on Tuesday. “We’re mourning the loss of one of our students.”
Beshear urged people to pray for those affected and “for a world where these things don’t happen.”
“I’ll keep trying to build a Kentucky that we don’t see arguments ended in violence,” he said.
James Cameron and Billie Eilish on the set of ‘BILLIE EILISH – HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D)’ (Henry Hwu)
A new trailer has been released for BILLIE EILISH – HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D), the singer’s upcoming immersive movie collaboration with Titanic director James Cameron.
In the non-3D trailer, which is mostly set to Billie’s song “The Greatest,” we see her behind-the-scenes and onstage during her recently completed tour, and working with Cameron, who says, “No one’s shot a concert film on this scale before.”
He adds, “We’re using tech that’s never been used before,” to which Billie replies, “Can’t wait!”
The words “She changed music. He changed movies. Together, they’ll reinvent the concert experience.” flash onscreen as we see more scenes of Billie on and offstage. She cries at a sweet note her brother FINNEAS sends her, grins as he joins her onstage, and laughs backstage at how tired she is.
In the last scene, Billie is seen petting various dogs and explaining, “Tour is so brutal, I like to have a puppy room to go chill in.” “I’ll be doing this on my next movie for sure,” jokes Cameron.
BILLIE EILISH – HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D) arrives in theaters March 20. You can sign up now for early access to tickets, or purchase a “friends and family” gift card at Billie’s webstore that you can use to buy the tickets — it’ll arrive in time for the holidays.
