Sharon Osbourne learned an important lesson this week – never leave a candle burning overnight. Part of Osbourne’s home caught fire around 4:30 a.m. Thursday because she forgot to blow out a candle burning in a glass jar. Thankfully, the fire was contained in the living room and no one was seriously hurt. Osbourne says her husband Ozzy walked away with singed hair and eyebrows.
“At five o’ clock, I heard a noise like metal had fallen. I thought it was my housekeeper coming in and she had dropped her keys on the tiles, that’s what it sounded like, so I didn’t pay any attention. A few minutes later, my eyes are stinging and my throat’s closing up, (I thought), ‘Something’s weird smelling in here,’” Osbourne shared on The Talk. “Then my dog started to bark. I go downstairs and the whole living room (was on fire). The candle had burst and the cracking sound was the glass and the candle exploding …”
Ozzy, who had hand surgery on Wednesday, attempted to extinguish the flames with his cast. “He comes down and goes, ‘Oh, the fire, the fire!’ (and tries to put it out) with his hand in the cast. Then he opens the French doors and I go into the kitchen and throw water on it and it erupted,” she explained. “Ozzy’s front of his hair from (his ear down is), gone! His eyebrows (are gone)… he’s got like, skinned cheeks.”
“It was like ‘The Three Stooges’… Everything you are not meant to do – go to bed with candles alight, open the doors and put water on – we did it all,” joked Osbourne.
On a more serious note, Osbourne thanked the Beverly Hills Fire Station for putting out the fire, and urged viewers to remember to blow out their candles. “I want to thank the firemen from Beverly Hills Fire Station because you are magnificent there and I want to say to everyone out there, please, please check your candles before you go to bed,” she added.
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