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Osbourne Waves 'Union Jack'

Tuesday, September 02, 2003

04:53 PM PT

Just call him a Jack-of-all-trades.

In their ongoing battle for the title of "Most Overexposed Osbourne," Jack has once again moved ahead of sister Kelly. Ozzy's 17-year-old son, fresh out of rehab, will host "Union Jack," a half-hour show that will air on Britain's Channel 4.

According to the AP, Jack's show, which will launch in November, will offer a "Brit's eye view" of Los Angeles. Jack will ramble around his adopted hometown, showing off the coolest places for music, dancing, food and pseudo-culture in the City of Angels.

For Jack, this is just another unusual step on the road of fame. Since joining his bat-biting father, cancer-fighting mother and pink-highlighting sister on MTV's "The Osbournes," Jack has bolstered his own image with appearances on "Dawson's Creek" and "That '70s Show." He'll make his big screen debut opposite the Olsen Twins in 2004's "New York Minute."

After the MTV series' first season cemented the entire Osbourne clan in the nation's collective imagination, ratings have dropped first steadily and then swiftly. Earlier this year, Jack spent two months in rehab clinic for drug and alcohol abuse.

Now ostensibly clean and sober, Jack is prepared to provide what Channel 4 promises will be "a fresh take on all things cool and strange in Hollywood."