Ozzy too Paranoid to drive again after bump
OZZY Osbourne has given up driving despite a 30-year battle to pass his test.
The rocker, 69, hung up his keys after a minor prang in a Ferrari – because he’s terrified of accident lawsuits.
Son Jack revealed: “He had a little bumper kiss on the freeway with someone and he was like ‘you STRICTLY Come Dancing bosses are hoping Coleen Rooney will quickstep up for this year’s series.
The mum of four – married to Everton ace Wayne – is top of the wish-list for the BBC show, say sources.
She’s been waiting in the wings since last year when she was approached but had to turn it down after finding out she was pregnant with son Cass, it is claimed.
Insiders say she was replaced by Holby City actress Chizzy Akudolu at the eleventh hour.
A source said: “Coleen deferred her place last year after falling pregnant but has the option of taking it up this year – and talks have begun to make that happen.
“This would be one of Strictly’s biggest signings ever. And it would be a ratings sensation. Producers know that they will need to pull out all the stops to land Coleen. But they have been told she is interested.”
Since hitting the limelight as one of the original WAGs, Coleen, 32, has become a star in her own right. She has had her own magazine column, released a fitness DVD and had a clothing range with Littlewoods.
But last year was a tough one for her after husband Wayne was arrested for drink-driving on a night out with Laura Simpson, a lettings manager he’d just met in a cocktail bar.
Coleen, who was pregnant at the time and on holiday in Majorca, was devastated. The couple now have four sons – Kai, eight, Klay, four, Kit, three, and Cass, two months.
She later admitted their nine-year marriage had come close to ending, but said she had stayed with Wayne, 32, because she loved him.
Coleen wouldn’t be the first WAG to hit the Strictly dancefloor. Abbey Clancy, wife of Stoke footballer Peter Crouch, won the show in know, I don’t want to drive any more’. He was already driving less and less. I think he is of that mindset he’d rather not have the responsibility.
“Think about it – Ozzy bumps someone and it is like next thing you know we are going to sue for a billion – because people are silly.
“His thing was more like ‘I don’t want to be liable, that’s it’.” The 2013 with partner Aljaž Škorjanec. A source said: “It would be Coleen’s chance to step out from Wayne’s shadow and prove she’s not just a footballer’s wife. And it would mean Wayne would be in the audience, which is sure to be a ratings hit.” Strictly returns in September. Other names in the frame include The Chase favourite Mark Labbett aka The Beast, ex-EastEnder Lorna Fitzgerald, and breakfast TV rivals Piers Morgan and Dan Walker. Black Sabbath star only got his license in 2009, 30 years after falling asleep during a test.
He put further failures down to his debauched lifestyle – “I took so many **** ing driving tests because I was so out of it.
“The time I fell asleep, when I woke up there was a note on the seat saying, ‘You have failed.’”
In recent years, he has driven a
janine.yacoob @trinitymirror.com Range Rover, Ferrari and Audi R8. Paranoid singer Ozzy was left with damaged neck vertebrae, a broken collarbone and six cracked ribs after crashing a quad bike in the grounds of his home in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks, in 2003.
He said afterwards: “I could have died. I am lucky to be here today. I’ve finally grown up. The bloody thing nearly killed me.”