Ozzy Osbourne and Family’s Thrilling ‘Chaos’ Left Reality Show Crew in a ‘Panic,’ Crewmember Recalls

Ozzy Osbourne famously invited the world into his home to share a glimpse into the wild inner workings of his family on MTV’s The Osbournes.

Days after the heavy metal legend’s death at 76, a former crewmember from the show — which ran from 2002 to 2005 — fondly reflected on the madness that came with filming The Osbournes, something he believes was more of a documentary than a typical reality series.

“There was no setups, there was no bulls**t. There is no, ‘Hey, we’re gonna put the family in this situation,’” Cameron Glendenning told the New York Post in a story published on Thursday, July 24. “The idea, if we were even to suggest something like that, that person wouldn’t be at work the next day.”

As for what it was like working on the show day-to-day, he called it “absolutely chaos.”

“[The family] gave zero warning,” he continued. “There was no, ‘Hey, director, heads up, I’m gonna go into the living room and do X, Y, Z.’ That s**t did not happen.”

While the Osbourne’s home was monitored by surveillance cameras throughout the series, Glendenning said that was just about “the only heads up” they had when something was going down.

“When we would see them doing something insane, we would run in with cameras, but that was it,” he added. “They wouldn’t tell us where they were going for dinner. They’d just hop in the car and be like, ‘Follow us.’”

The Osbourne family’s haphazard approach to reality television often left the crew “in a panic.”

“We’d just get in the car, and we would be like, what the f**k is happening?” he remembered. “So, we were always ready to go. I swear, it was funny, almost a quick response team.”

Despite the chaos, Glendenning called it “really exhilarating” and “super challenging.”

Producer Sue Kolinsky also recalled finding out how genuinely hilarious the Black Sabbath rocker was.

“We realized early on that anything Ozzy did was going to be funny. Like making a milkshake – we were gonna have [that be] three minutes of an episode,” she told the outlet. “He was so funny, and he had no idea how funny he was.”

“No one ever said to Ozzy, ‘Hey, can you say that again?’ Whatever you shot, that’s what we had to use,” she continued. “And that’s what made the show so brilliant, because it really was real.”

As Star previously reported, the Osbourne family confirmed Ozzy had passed away on Tuesday, July 22, following a lengthy health battle with Parkinson’s disease.

“He was with his family and surrounded by love,” the statement read. “We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”

His cause of death has not been confirmed publicly.