Friend 'sobbing in the kitchen' over Ozzy Osborne

IMO it’s pure attention seeking - oh, look at me, I’m such a sensitive person, overflowing with such desperate grief…

How old is she? Perhaps BS & OO reminded her of something sentimental in her life? It is the passing of an era as it has been and will be with other long term artists. She is allowed. Go into the other room if you can't stand it. Who are you to control what she cries over?

Yes always happened. A lot of emotion when Elvis died for example.

Time for a 'RIP Brucey. I am sobbing in my kitchen. Up there with the greats. Why did no-one tell me?' FB post?

Hang on, Bruce Forsyth is dead?!

There has always been hysteria over celebrities. Google Rudolph Valentino's funeral. When Michael Jackson died, one woman at work (in her late 40s) walked around blubbering for days.

This. It's why a Day of the Dead is suggested by some people.

Just step away if they're bothering you.

She wants attention and ChatGPT just doesn't cut the mustard.

People also know him from The Osbournes so it’s not just Black Sabbath.

My mum was choked up when the Queen died, which really surprised me.
She didn’t shed a tear, but there was a little catch in her throat.

I think it just made her think about her own late mum.

All I really know about his bad behaviour was to do with the bat. He (hopefully) wouldn't have gotten away with that these days.

I think there's a big difference between shedding a tear/sobbing in your kitchen privately and informing other people that you're doing so.

Why share that information?

Yes, I used to think he was an absolute sweetheart until I started reading his autobiography. I couldn't get past the first couple of chapters.

Fine, I will amend to south East and/or Londoners. However, I doubt that will end the barage of 'it wasn't just us' type posts.

And yes, I know people had travelled - but the wailers being interviewed that I saw were invariably of a particular demographic.

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Totally agree with this.

If she has memories that link back to her teenage years then there may also be a keen emotional impact.

I was devastated when John Lennon was murdered because the Beatles were such a key part of my life growing up on Merseyside. I felt a genuine sense of loss and immense sadness. I also felt the loss of what might have been as he was brilliant musically and killed in his prime.

Just to point out,the people wailing at the palace gates weren't just 'southerners', people HAD travelled. From the interviews conducted at the time, there certainly were people who had travelled all the way from Scotland just to put a wreath down and for the ridiculously OTT funeral.

In addition when you make comments like this,what you really mean is 'londoners' or people from the South East, I suspect. There's a whole lot of 'South' you know, that isn't the SE.

Where did I say everyone was wailing? I'm saying the wailing, performative ones being interviewed were invariably southern English.

Obviously people conducting themselves with restraint would have been far less interesting journalistic cannon fodder.

I suppose everyone is different. I lost my dad at a young age, so now when someone famous dies, even if it's someone I really liked.....I just think oh well, and possibly, that's a bit sad and move on. Especially if it's someone who lived until a ripe old age. I found people describing the Queens death as tragic a bit distasteful.

Don't be harsh. I was the same when Kenneth Williams and, more recently, when Norman Tebbit died..

So you're a journalist looking to find a story after the death of a celebrity (e.g. Diana) who do you interview? - the wailing, performative ones obviously. It doesn't mean everyone there was wailing.

I really detest this sort of performative (and completely insincere) grieving for celebs when they die. Another weird side to social media. The very vast majority of people I've seen who are 'devastated' that Ozzy has passed are probably too young to have seen the TV show and have definitely never shared what a fan they are of his music 🤔

Nobody will judge you if you don't put up an 'rip' post within 2 hours of a death announcement.

I didn't see anyone wailing and sobbing when Diana died although people were a bit shocked at the way it happened and sad for her children. The floral tributes were a new phenomena.

A bit different, but I went to see Dunkirk shortly after my Dad died. I was sobbing uncontrollably by the end because I'd been holding it together sorting out the house, probate etc and the film just triggered me because he was the same age those airmen and soldiers would have been. He wasn't even at Dunkirk but grief can be triggered in different ways and I think the death of a celebrity can come into this.

I was in Glasgow and don't recall any wailing here. I was working in a library during my uni holidays and I remember the council placing books of condolence in all the libraries. The punters weren't exactly queueing round the block to sign them.

I sometimes feel sad when I hear about these deaths but it doesn’t last. By the end of the day I am on to the next thing. So it is ordinary human sadness that I feel not grief. With respect, we should leave the grieving to their true loved ones.