Kelly Osbourne slams wrestler Becky Lynch over Ozzy joke: ‘You disrespectful dirtbag’
“Birmingham would not piss on you if you were on fire,” Osbourne told the wrestler
By Nick Reilly
Kelly Osbourne has hit out at wrestler Becky Lynch after she made a joke about Ozzy Osbourne‘s death during a WWE show in the late singer’s native Birmingham.
Last night (August 25) saw the entertainment giant bring the live WWE Raw show to the city’s BP Pulse LIVE arena. The event was also live-streamed on Netflix across the globe and came just a month after Ozzy died at his Buckinghamshire mansion.
The show saw Irish wrestler Becky Lynch taking on a villainous role ahead of her fight this weekend against Nikki Bella for the Women’s Intercontinental Championship. As NME, Lynch has taken to making jokes about the individual cities they are performing in and it was at this point that Osbourne’s name was mentioned.
“You can have your match, but in Paris at Clash, because I’m not wrestling in Birmingham,” she told Bella.
“The only good thing that came out of here died a month ago. But in fairness to Ozzy Osbourne, he had the good sense to move to LA, a proper city. Because if I lived in Birmingham, I’d die too,” Lynch said to boos.
The comments were slammed as “disgusting and disrespectful” by fans, and Kelly Osbourne has now dished out similar condemnation.
Tagging Lynch on her Instagram story, Osbourne wrote: “You are a disrespectful dirtbag! Birmingham would not piss on you if you were on fire. #birminghamforever shame on the WWE for allowing such things to be said about my father and his home.”
Lynch is yet to respond to Osbourne’s comments at the time of writing.
Though never a wrestler, Ozzy Osbourne was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021 to recognise his appearances through the years, including supporting the British Bulldogs in 1986 at Wrestlemania. In 2009, he and Sharon Osbourne hosted an episode of WWE RAW.
Ozzy’s public funeral saw thousands of fans line the streets of Birmingham for Ozzy’s procession through his hometown. His coffin travelled down Broad Street in the city centre, before ending at the Black Sabbath Bridge and bench.
A biopic of the singer’s life is also currently in development, while a BBC documentary which followed his final years was delayed last week at his family’s request.