Kelly Osbourne and the Osbourne family at the centre of Robbie Williams’ Brits tribute — how fans and musicians will feel the moment

Family, longtime collaborators and global fans will be the first to feel the Brit Awards’ decision to posthumously honour Ozzy Osbourne with a Lifetime Achievement award. The move puts Sharon Osbourne and Ozzy’s children — including kelly osbourne — visibly at the centre of a closing tribute fronted by Robbie Williams, a choice that steers the night toward personal memory as much as musical celebration.

Kelly Osbourne, Sharon and Jack: family ties shaping the tribute

This tribute leans heavily on family involvement. Sharon Osbourne curated a special arrangement of "No More Tears" and personally invited Robbie Williams to front the performance, portraying Williams as a long-standing fan and friend of the family. Ozzy previously appeared at the Brit Awards as a host in 2008 alongside Sharon and his two children, Kelly and Jack, and that earlier family presence now frames the ceremony’s farewell moment. The connection matters on stage as much as it does for viewers: kelly osbourne is part of the household history the tribute evokes.

How the closing performance will be presented

The show in Manchester will close with the Sharon-curated arrangement of "No More Tears, " fronted by Robbie Williams. Musicians who have played with Ozzy across his career will join the performance: Adam Wakeman, Robert Trujillo, Tommy Clufetos and Zakk Wylde. Williams’ recent musical ties to the Sabbath legacy are part of the fit — last year he teamed up with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi for the single "Rocket" and has previously performed sections of "Paranoid" live — and Sharon’s invitation positions Williams as the family’s choice to lead the moment.

Who else is on the bills — ceremony logistics and performers

The Brit Awards will take place on Saturday at Manchester’s Co-op Live and will be hosted by Jack Whitehall. It will be the first time the ceremony is held outside of London. Performances scheduled for the night include EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami (the singing voices of HUNTR/X from KPop Demon Hunters), Alex Warren, Harry Styles, Olivia Dean, Mark Ronson, Raye, Rosalía, Sombr and Wolf Alice. Winners and honours to be handed out include Jacob Alon as this year’s Critics' Choice award winner, Noel Gallagher receiving Brits Songwriter of the Year, and PinkPantheress being honoured with Brits Producer of the Year.

Ozzy’s career totals and accolades that underpin the Lifetime Achievement award

Ozzy Osbourne’s commercial and industry record underpins the recognition: more than 100 million worldwide album sales across five decades; 19 studio albums and eight live albums with Black Sabbath; and 13 studio albums as a solo artist. His industry honours include five Grammy awards, induction into both the UK Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — each both with Black Sabbath and later as a solo artist in separate years — and an Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement with Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath’s origins were also noted in the coverage: the band formed in 1968 and are widely credited with pioneering and popularising heavy metal.

Here’s the part that matters for audiences and the industry:

• The closing tribute is being framed as a family-curated, career-spanning moment rather than a generic awards-slot performance.
• Musicians who played with Ozzy — from keyboardist Adam Wakeman to guitarist Zakk Wylde — will reconnect the staged tribute to his live sound.
• The ceremony’s move to Manchester and a high-profile host shifts the Brit Awards’ setting and visibility for this particular honour.
• Recent high-profile tributes elsewhere — notably a US Grammys cover of "War Pigs" performed by Post Malone, Slash, Duff McKagan, Chad Smith and Andrew Watt — mean this Brit Awards moment joins a series of international remembrances.

Recent events that feed into this night

Osbourne died last July; coverage states he was aged 76 and that his death occurred on 22 July from a reported heart attack. His passing came just over two weeks after his "Back To The Beginning" farewell concert, where he reunited with his bandmates, and is described as happening weeks after his farewell performance in his hometown of Birmingham. The record of his later-life health struggles is also included in the public account: he underwent multiple surgeries after a fall in February 2019 and had a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. In the 2000s, the reality TV series The Osbournes, which starred Ozzy alongside his wife Sharon and their two youngest children, introduced him to a new generation of fans.

Stacey Tang, chair of the 2026 Brit Awards Committee and co-president of RCA Records at Sony Music UK, framed the award as recognition of a "mighty force in modern music, " praising Osbourne’s voice, presence and influence on generations of artists — language that signals the ceremony’s intent to treat this as both a musical and cultural milestone. What's easy to miss is how the mix of family curation, longtime collaborators on stage and the choice of a high-profile pop figure like Robbie Williams creates a layered tribute that aims to bridge rock legacy and mainstream ceremony.

The real question now is how the evening’s personal framing will shape public memory of Ozzy’s career beyond plaques and sales figures; the performance — curated by Sharon and led by Williams — is set to be the night’s defining image.