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I was the Osbournes' nanny. One day I saw Ozzy eat 50 steaks

I was the Osbournes' nanny. One day I saw Ozzy eat 50 steaks

When Melbourne artist Jessie Breakwell was 26 years old, backpacking and almost broke in London, she landed a special gig: working as a nanny for Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.
It was 1996, and Bracewell had applied for work with a nannying agency to fund her travels after studying fine arts at RMIT.
The next week, a limousine arrived where she was temping as a receptionist and she was taken to meet the family. She was interviewed by Ozzy and Sharon – together with their children, Jack, Kelly and Aimee, then aged 13, 14 and 15 – and thinks she got the job because they wanted someone relaxed.
For the next 18 months, Breakwell lived and worked with the Osbournes, travelling between their home in Buckinghamshire and Beverley Hills. This was several years before the MTV reality show The Osbournes launched them to global fame; they asked her to stay ahead of the show's launch, but she was keen to get back to Australia.
With news of Ozzy Osbourne's death on Wednesday, she has been remembering her time with the family.
'I spent more time with Ozzy than probably any of them, to be honest, when he was home between tours. He was the funniest guy. Because he spoke slowly people thought he was stupid, but he was so smart.'
Breakwell, a Melbourne-based artist who runs her own gallery, said Ozzy was funny, down-to-earth, and without any airs or graces. 'He was always kind, he had time for everybody and made you feel really welcome,' she said.
'Because he didn't drive, he used to do things like get in the car, open the sunroof, turn his own music on and stand up and sing out the roof. He was quite obsessive compulsive. For a week he'd just be drawing all week, the next he'd have a cycling obsession, so he'd put the bike in the loungeroom and be cycling for days, or he'd decide he would only eat steak and he'd have 50 steaks a day.'
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