JACK’S THE LAD WHEN IT COMES TO THE SUPERNATURAL
OZZY and Sharon
Osbourne aren’t the biggest believers in ghosts.
But their son, Jack, most definitely is. He presents a paranormal-investigative series called Portals To
Hell, which sees him explore America’s most haunted and sinister locations, in search of irrefutable evidence that a spirit world exists.
Now, a special watch party is set to air on Really, in which sceptics Ozzy and Sharon – self-isolating due to coronavirus – catch up on a particularly terrifying episode.
As we follow Jack investigating the Shanghai Tunnels in Portland,
Oregon, we witness his parents’ reactions, while the TV personality also tunes in from his own home in LA.
At a time when he is socially distancing from his parents, Jack, 34, says it “was a lot of fun” to make a programme together.
“I can see them; I can go over to the house and stand outside while they talk to me with the door open, but it’s just tough,” he confides.
“That’s something that’s really been weighing on me and I’ve been trying not to think about it too much because it’s just a really
“I think they had reservations in the sense where they were like, ‘We don’t necessarily believe too much in this stuff, so I don’t know if you really want us doing it’,” admits Jack.
“They stepped up for sure. They’re not the biggest ghost show watchers. They just don’t like anything scary.”
The paranormal is something Jack has been interested in since he was a kid: “I grew up watching X-Files – that was my show.”
He recalls one particularly scary incident shooting an episode about the Haunted Hill House in Mineral Wells, Texas.
“The amount of folklore surrounding this place... At one point they said that a satanic death cult lived there, and then they said there was a murder that happened there and then they said there’s a demon that allegedly habits this place.
“So, I initially went into it being like, ‘Yeah, sure; everyone’s just a little bit too over the top about this place’. And that house was absolutely terrifying!
“Towards the end of the night, we were upstairs, in basically a converted attic, and we heard the loudest bang on the wall – it literally sounded like someone took a baseball bat and just smacked the side of the house. Yeah, it was really terrifying.”
The Osbournes are arguably one of the most famous families in the world. In January this year, Ozzy revealed he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
Asked how his dad is coping with his health during lockdown, Jack says: “He’s doing okay. He’s just bored. He was going to go back in the studio and start work on another album, and that all got shut down, especially because his producer got Covid.
“He’s had a really hard time with it. That hit very close to home – I think it really freaked my dad out at that point. But, he’s doing good.”
Watching With The Osbournes: Portals To Hell is on Really on Saturday at 9pm and on dplay.co.uk