Elliot Kingsley is the adopted son of Ozzy Osbourne, and the most private of the rock star’s six children. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where he works in IT and has stayed almost entirely out of public view. He has no known social media accounts and has never given an interview, not even after his father died in July 2025.
He is regularly confused with someone else. A British stage actor named Elliott Kingsley, no relation, shares almost the same name, and the actor’s theatre work is often credited to Ozzy’s son by mistake. The two have separate careers in different countries.
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A quiet life in Wellington
The handful of news outlets that traced him found an ordinary working life. His move was first reported by the Daily Mail, then followed up by the New Zealand Herald and the broadcaster 1News. He left Britain and settled in Wellington around 2020.
He is married to Dr Joanne Crawford, a health and safety academic at Victoria University of Wellington who is originally from Scotland. The New Zealand Herald reported that he works as a support technician at a Wellington technology firm, TenFour Technology. When the paper approached the couple after Ozzy’s death, neither replied, and he has said nothing in public about his father.
Before that, his life had drawn just as little notice. The Daily Mail reported that he grew up in Birmingham, went to King Edward VI High School in Stafford and studied at Birmingham College. He and Joanne had lived in her native Scotland before the move.
Reports have referred to him by two surnames, Osbourne and Kingsley, which is part of why he is so easily mixed up with others who share the name. Any mention of a stage career belongs to the actor, not to him.
Adopted into the Osbourne family
Thelma Riley already had a young son when she met Ozzy. The boy, Elliot, was born in 1966, and his biological father has never been publicly named. Ozzy married Thelma in 1971 and adopted Elliot, who was then five.
Ozzy and Thelma had two more children together, Jessica and Louis, before they divorced in 1982. That same year Ozzy married Sharon, and the couple had Aimee, Kelly and Jack between 1983 and 1985. Only the younger three grew up in front of cameras.
Ozzy was blunt about the strain of those early years. In his memoir, I Am Ozzy, he wrote that he had been a poor stepfather and that the trouble between them was never the boy’s fault.
“He was a good kid, but for some reason we never got on.” Ozzy Osbourne, I Am Ozzy
The other Elliott Kingsley
The actor whose work keeps getting attached to Ozzy’s son is a real and separate person. Elliott Kingsley, spelled with two t’s, trained through the Young Everyman Playhouse in Liverpool and joined the Everyman repertory company in 2017. In 2025 he toured in Boys from the Blackstuff, the stage version of Alan Bleasdale’s drama, and he has appeared on television in Cobra.
He grew up on the Wirral, has no connection to the Osbourne family, and is roughly a generation younger than the man he is mistaken for. The table below sets the two apart.
| Elliot Kingsley (Ozzy’s son) | Elliott Kingsley (the actor) | |
|---|---|---|
| Born and raised | 1966, Birmingham | The Wirral |
| Education | King Edward VI, Stafford, then Birmingham College | Calday Grange Grammar School |
| Home today | Wellington, New Zealand | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | IT support technician | Stage and television actor |
| Link to Ozzy | Adopted son | None |
Absent from Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral
Ozzy Osbourne died on 22 July 2025, aged 76. The statement his family released named Sharon and four of the children, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis. Elliot was not among them. Neither was Jessica.
On 30 July, a procession carried Ozzy’s coffin through Birmingham and past the Black Sabbath bridge as thousands lined the streets. Sharon walked behind it with Aimee, Kelly, Jack and Louis. Elliot stayed in Wellington, more than eleven thousand miles away, and made no public comment.
The silence fit the life he had built. He never appeared on The Osbournes, the MTV series that made Kelly and Jack famous in the early 2000s, and he never leaned on the family name. He has spent almost sixty years out of view, and his father’s death has not changed that. He is back at his desk in New Zealand, as private now as he has ever been.
