By Nicole Stawiarski

Updated 17 minutes ago, August 15, 2026

Dee Snider said Ozzy Osbourne “always had bass players write his lyrics,” pointing to Bob Daisley, Geezer Butler and Lemmy as the real authors behind much of his catalog.

Dee Snider at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles for Steven Tyler’s Grammy Awards viewing party benefitting Janie’s Fund on April 3, 2022. Photo by Joe Scarnici / Getty Images.

Kelly Osbourne, 41, wasn’t having it. On Instagram Stories, she called it “spectacularly classless” for Snider to go after her father “when he is no longer here to challenge his allegations.” Ozzy died in July 2025.

Kelly Osbourne at Co-op Live in Manchester for the BRIT Awards 2026 on February 28, 2026. Photo by Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images.

She reached for a familiar line to close it out: “Keep my father’s name out of your f–king mouth. You are nothing but Yesterday’s headline begging for tomorrow’s attention.”

Dee Snider takes the stage at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles during Steven Tyler’s Grammy Awards viewing party benefitting Janie’s Fund in April 2022. Photo by Tommaso Boddi / Getty Images.

She also took aim at Snider’s own relevance, writing that his “last hit” came the year she was born, “over 40 years ago,” and that talking about Ozzy was “simply a way of getting people talking about him again.”

Snider tried to smooth things over on X, saying he has “NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR OZZY” and that @BlackSabbath “changed my life,” while admitting that “as a songwriter I can be a little touchy about credit and royalties.”

Kelly read the apology as more of the same: “A backhanded compliment dressed up as ‘nothing but love,’ followed, predictably, by another use of my father’s name to get yourself some attention.”

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