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The Osbourne family’s return to the U.K. has inspired a new BBC reality series.
The 10-part show, titled Home to Roost, will follow Ozzy and Sharon‘s life as they move back to their home country after decades of living in Los Angeles.
“Home to Roost will document Ozzy and Sharon’s journey back to Britain, alongside [children] Kelly and Jack‘s efforts to support them, as they attempt to re-start their lives in rural Buckinghamshire,” a press release reads. “The series will follow the Osbournes as they celebrate one of their most important years yet — with everything from Sharon’s 70th birthday to Kelly’s soon-to-be-born baby, Ozzy’s tour, and of course the big move itself.”
The Osbournes, of course, are no strangers to reality TV. The family famously starred in the MTV show The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 to 2005, and various members also have also been featured in other reality series.
Meanwhile, Ozzy is slated to release a new solo album, Patient Number 9, on September 9. He’s also set to launch a European tour in 2023, which has long been delayed due to Ozzy’s variety of health issues and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Imagine Dragons has premiered “Love of Mine,” a previously unreleased demo dating back to the Night Visions era.
“Love of Mine” is one of the bonus tracks included in the upcoming 10th-anniversary reissue of Night Visions, due out September 9.
You can listen to “Love of Mine” now via digital outlets. Its accompanying, animated video is streaming now on YouTube.
Night Visions, Imagine Dragons’ debut album, was released September 4, 2012, making stars out of Dan Reynolds and company with the singles “Radioactive,” “It’s Time” and “Demons.” The album has been certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA, while both “Radioactive” and “Demons” are Diamond.
The first of two tribute concerts honoring late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins takes place Saturday at London’s Wembley Stadium.
The star-studded event, which will feature a towering roster of guests performing alongside Foo members Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee, is set to stream live via Paramount+ and MTV’s YouTube channel beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET.
An hour-long version of the concert will also air as a special on CBS on Saturday at 10 p.m. ET. MTV will also air a two-hour special later in September.
The many artists joining the Foos in London for the tribute include Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, AC/DC‘s Brian Johnson, the Joe Walsh-fronted James Gang, Led Zeppelin‘s John Paul Jones, The Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde and Martin Chambers, The Police‘s Stewart Copeland, Nile Rodgers of Chic, Rush‘s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, and Wolfgang Van Halen.
Grohl’s daughter Violet and Hawkins’ son Shane are also on the bill, as is Taylor’s cover band Chevy Metal.
You can view a full list of participants at TaylorHawkinsTributeConcert.com, which also features personal messages from a number of the guest artists sharing their memories of Hawkins and what it means for them to be performing in his honor.
Hawkins died on March 25 at age 50. The second tribute concert will be held at Kia Forum near Los Angeles on September 27.
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Britney Spears says she is “deeply saddened” that her son, 15-year-old Jayden James, further aired their ongoing drama.
Jayden told Daily Mail he and his brother, 16-year-old Sean Preston, felt it would be inappropriate to attend their mother’s wedding to Sam Asghari because she “didn’t invite the whole family.”
Jayden called his uncle, Bryan Spears,and grandparents Lynne and Jamie Spears — whom Britney has accused of abusing the 13-year conservatorship — a “good part of our lives,” noting that “they are not bad people.”
He then opened up about the “emotional trauma” he and Preston deal with because of his mother’s fame. He said Britney “struggled” to give her kids attention, adding, “I don’t think she showed enough.”
Britney was gutted by her son’s interviews and spoke out shortly after they were published.
“I’ve tried my best at being the best person I can be,” she began in a lengthy Instagram post. “… My love for my children has no boundaries. It deeply saddens me to know his outcry of saying I wasn’t up to his expectations of a mother.”
She accused ex-husband Kevin Federline of turning their kids against her. “I helped you father who hasn’t had a job in 15 years …,” she wrote. “It’s horrible to see your dad be a hypocrite and say the media is horrible yet he has you talking about personal matters to them !!!”
She then quipped her kids shouldn’t be discussing her mental health and should instead, “Tell your father to go try and at least mow the lawn.”
Britney also took issue with Jayden praising his grandparents, saying, “If you can honestly sit back and say … what [Lynne and Jamie] did to me was fine and call them not bad people … then yes I have failed as a mother.”
Chris Jericho‘s music and wrestling worlds are colliding but not in the best way.
The Fozzy frontman suffered a “severely bruised larynx” during an AEW wrestling event in August, forcing the band to push back the start of their upcoming Save the World U.S. tour.
An Instagram post from Fozzy reads, “Even though the injury is healing and is NOT permanent, Chris hasn’t fully recovered and his laryngologist has recommended that Fozzy postpone the first two weeks of the Save the World tour…in order to facilitate a full recovery as soon as possible.”
The affected shows will be rescheduled for spring 2023. Previously purchased tickets will be valid for the new dates.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit FozzyRock.com.
Fozzy will be touring in support of their new album, Boombox, which features the singles “I Still Burn,” “Sane” and “Nowhere to Run.”
In her OnTheJLo newsletter on Thursday, Jennifer Lopez shared more details about her and Ben Affleck‘s September 20 wedding ceremony in Georgia.
JLo posted pics of the trio of Ralph Lauren dresses she wore during the “rustic country-chic” ceremony and subsequent “yummy brunch.” The first dress, she explained, was a short-sleeved number featuring more than 1,000 handkerchiefs and hundreds of meters of fabric, all ruffled and hand-sewn around the skirt.
Lopez mentioned that she surprised Affleck with recording artist Marc Cohn, who sang the couple down the aisle with “the perfect wedding love song,” Cohn’s “True Companion.”
Apparently, it was the couple’s favorite when they were supposed to marry the first time, back in 2003.
For their part, Lopez’s and Affleck’s kids from their respective previous marriages to Marc Anthony and Jennifer Garner also had a part to play: Lopez’s twins Max and Emme joined Affleck’s daughters Violet and Seraphina and his son Samuelin a walk down the aisle to the song “The Things We’ve Handed Down.”
J Lo also noted the ceremony included dialog Affleck wrote for his own 2016 film, Live By Night: “‘This is heaven. Right here. We’re in it now,” Lopez explained. “He also said it the night of our wedding reception in his speech, and I thought…how perfect.”
Lopez looked back at the formal reformation of “Bennifer,” explaining the couple, “laughed the night before about getting married again at our age.”
Jennifer is 53, and Affleck is 50.
“We had both been married before and we aren’t exactly kids any more but somehow now seemed like the only age that made sense…for us, this was perfect timing,” she enthused. “Full-circle — and not at all the way we planned it. Better.”
(NEW YORK) — A Florida teen has been battling an infection suspected to be caused by a rare, brain-eating amoeba for over 50 days, as his family prays for him to wake up, they said.
Caleb Ziegelbauer, 13, was suffering from a severe headache, high fever and hallucinations when his family brought him to Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers on July 9, according to Lee Health, the hospital’s parent company.
After quickly ruling out bacterial meningitis, doctors began treating the teen for primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a disease with similar symptoms that’s caused by Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba that destroys brain tissue. Caleb swam in brackish water days before experiencing his symptoms, further causing doctors to suspect he was infected by the amoeba, the hospital said.
Samples sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ultimately tested negative for Naegleria fowleri, though Caleb’s doctors continued treating the teen for primary amebic meningoencephalitis due to his symptoms and history, the hospital said.
Caleb was on a ventilator and has suffered seizures while in the pediatric intensive care unit, though his condition has been stable in recent weeks, his family said. After more than 50 days at the children’s hospital, Caleb was transferred this week to a rehabilitation hospital in Chicago for the next phase of his treatment.
His mother, Jesse Ziegelbauer, said they sought out Shirley Ryan AbilityLab because Caleb needs a disorders of consciousness program.
“He is made of pure grit and determination, and it is exactly that which we are banking on to wake him up,” Jesse Ziegelbauer said during a press briefing Wednesday before they left on an air ambulance. “I can’t wait for him to share his story. It is his and only his to share.”
His mother described Caleb, the eldest of four siblings, as an “amazing big brother” who loves baseball and science and wants to be an epidemiologist when he grows up.
“Caleb is brave. Caleb is strong. Caleb is a fighter. Caleb is young. Caleb is healthy. Caleb has a brain capable of healing,” she said.
As he continues to fight, his family say they remain hopeful.
“Every finger twitch we see makes us excited for what’s to come,” Jesse Ziegelbauer said.
Infections with Naegleria fowleri are rare but often fatal. Out of 154 known cases of primary amebic meningoencephalitis reported in the U.S. from 1962 to 2021, only four people have survived, according to the CDC.
This summer, a Missouri resident with a confirmed Naegleria fowleri case died, while a child in Nebraska died from a suspected case, health officials in their respective states said.
Infections mainly occur during the summer months in recreational water, according to the CDC. People can become infected by Naegleria fowleri when water containing the amoeba enters the body through their nose.
Symptoms of primary amebic meningoencephalitis include severe headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, stiff neck and seizures.
People can try to reduce their risk of becoming infected by Naegleria fowleri by limiting the amount of water that goes up their nose while in bodies of warm freshwater and by avoiding recreation in warm freshwater during periods of high water temperature.
Caleb started complaining of a headache days after playing in the water at a local beach in Port Charlotte on July 1, his family said. Though his tests were inconclusive for the disease caused by Naegleria fowleri, his doctors at Golisano Children’s Hospital believe that to be the cause of his illness, the hospital said. It is also common for Naegleria fowleri not to be initially detected in patients with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, according to the CDC.
“Due to Caleb’s symptoms, his reported recent exposure to brackish water, and his clinical course, infectious disease physicians at Golisano Children’s Hospital believe he could still have PAM caused by Naegleria fowleri and thus recommended to continue treating him for this infection,” Golisano Children’s Hospital said in a statement to reporters in late July.
Caleb’s family has been speaking out since they first learned of his likely diagnosis in hopes of alerting people on how to protect themselves.
Tampa-based Jet ICU was among those who heard about Caleb and offered to fly him and his family to Chicago at no cost.
“We heard about the story. We had to step in,” Jet ICU flight paramedic Jared Wayt told reporters Wednesday. “He’s already beat the odds. So hopefully we can help further his care and his recovery.”
(NEW YORK) — Two parents who have turned tragedy into a teachable moment are educating others on the dangers of heatstroke.
Martin McNair and Tonya Wilson lost their 19-year-old son, Jordan McNair, in 2018 after the University of Maryland football player suffered a heatstroke following a strenuous football workout. Now, the foundation named for their son is helping others avoid the same fate.
Heatstroke occurs when the body overheats, with internal temperature rising to 104 degrees and is most likely to happen during the summer months, according to the Mayo Clinic. Older adults, people who are overweight as well as people who experience overexertion from exercise are most likely to suffer heatstroke.
“Jordan was very healthy, as far as for his weight and height, he was healthy…we were totally oblivious to what a heat-related injury was. We didn’t know what was going on,” Jordan McNair’s father, Martin McNair, told ABC News.
After Jordan’s death, his parents launched the Jordan McNair Foundation to raise awareness about heatstroke and teach parents what to look for.
“I think for us also, especially for me, my grief went into the work that we’ve done and we’re still amazed that, you know, the accomplishments and the impact that we’ve made up until this point,” McNair told ABC News.
The foundation was established in June 2018, days after Jordan died, and, since then, has started working with student athletes of all ages. The foundation’s work recently expanded to the collegiate level, partnering with Morgan University in Maryland.
“We talk to schools, literally all over the nation, but our main focus is parent education, and that’s really the main thing. Advocacy and the seeds of advocacy need to be planted at a very, very early age, so our goal is to educate parents all over the nation, along with student athletes and the more educated a parent is, the more educated the student athlete is and the more educated coaches are, because parents are asking the right questions at this point,” McNair said.
Questions they wish they knew to ask in 2018.
“I wouldn’t wish this type of pain on nobody, and even though it’s been four years, it’s still felt like yesterday,” McNair said.
“I didn’t prepare him for what I didn’t know. Even though I try not to beat myself up about it, but I constantly did because it was like, ‘I could have prepared him more.’ I taught him how to be a leader, you know? How to defend himself. How to do this, how to do that; not to use drugs or substances and things like that. But at the end of the day, I never really taught him to, If you feel uncomfortable doing something, don’t do it,” McNair told ABC News.
While McNair died in 2018, heatstroke is still an issue for athletes at all levels and even tragically claimed the life of former Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III in June. In July, police in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, where Barber lived, said in a statement that Barber died of heatstroke and that his death was ruled an accident.
Heat illness often advances quickly in both football players and runners, according to the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. Since 1995, on average three athletes a year have died of heatstroke.
With record-high temperatures across the country, everyone — even non-athletes — is at an increased risk. However, with the record-high temperatures and outdoor practices for fall sports, heatstroke has an increased risk in athletes but is often confused with heath exhaustion, McNair said.
“When you’re looking at heatstroke, the big difference is in the central nervous dysfunction. So what does that mean in layman’s terms? Basically, when people start showing altered mental status, they could be ranting hysterically, which is not their normal selves. That’s a sign of heatstroke. And all of the signs look different. But again, it’s not the normal behavior of the student athlete or the person having a heatstroke. That’s what the sign, that’s what those are telltale signs like, hey, this person, this person is usually a quiet person and now they are going on a rant,” McNair said.
Irrational behavior is one of the symptoms of heatstroke, according to the Mayo Clinic. Other symptoms could include high fever, dry, hot skin, shallow breathing, seizures and weak pulse.
According to the Mayo Clinic, it’s best to wear loose fitting clothing, drink lots of liquids to stay hydrated and to do strenuous activity during cooler parts of the day to prevent heatstroke.
McNair and Wilson hope to prevent other parents from suffering the same fate as them, and plan to have their foundation expand across the country.
“He was a gentleman. Everybody loved Jordan. And all he had to do was smile and every, any place he went he would just light up a room…He was the jokester. He just played a bunch of jokes and so on. Outside of the home, he was different, but inside the home he was a lovable guy, and some days we’d just be in the house, and be eating more than talking but just a gentle giant. That’s exactly what he was, a gentle giant, and he’s missed tremendously,” Tonya Wilson, Jordan’s mother, told ABC News.
In the comments of an Instagram post, frontman Michael “Fat Mike” Burkett reveals that 2023 will be the long-running punk band’s “last year.”
“We will be announcing our final shows soon,” Mike writes. “It’s been an amazing run.”
NOFX was founded in 1983 by bassist/vocalist Fat Mike, guitarist Eric Melvin and drummer Erik “Smelly”Sandin, all of whom still remain in the band. The group has released 14 studio albums — all on independent record labels — including 1994’s RIAA Gold-certified Punk in Drublic, which featured the beloved song “Linoleum.”
(WASHINGTON) — U.S. hiring slowed from its breakneck pace but remained robust in August, with the economy adding 315,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rising to 3.7%, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
The report comes one week after Fed Chair Jerome Powell triggered a stock sell-off and stoked recession fears with his vow to fight inflation with interest rate hikes “until the job is done.”
The Fed has instituted a series of aggressive borrowing cost increases in recent months as it tries to slash near-historic inflation by slowing the economy and choking off demand. But the approach risks tipping the U.S. into an economic downturn.
So far this year, however, employment has boomed. The robust hiring numbers have defied expectations and quieted fears of a major slowdown.
U.S. hiring far outpaced expectations in July, as the economy added a blockbuster 528,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last month.
The jobs added in July exceeded the already-robust hiring sustained over the first half of 2022, during which the economy added an average of 461,000 jobs each month.
Government data put out this week reinforced evidence that the jobs market remains strong. Job openings rose in July after falling for three consecutive months, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday, which showed job openings on the last day of July had jumped to 11.2 million from 11 million the month prior.
The labor market has withstood the Fed’s effort to slow the economy, even as the central bank tries to bring down inflation in part by cutting demand for workers and slowing wage increases, AnnElizabeth Konkel, a senior economist with Indeed Hiring Lab, told ABC News.
At meetings in June and July, the central bank increased its benchmark interest rate 0.75% each time — dramatic hikes last matched in 1994.
“We aren’t seeing the employer demand get tamped down,” Konkel said. “Your interpretation of it in a macro sense depends on what hat you’re wearing.”
“If you’re a worker and see a strong labor market, that means you have choices,” she added. “You might be able to negotiate a higher wage or flexibility on work location. If you’re the Fed, it means your job just got tougher.”
