Ozzy gives Kelly and Jack sex advice

It has even found a fan in President Bush, who is reported to have invited Ozzy to the White House.

The Osbournes will be shown on MTV UK from 19 May, and may transfer to a terrestrial channel later in the year.

Ozzy Osbourne, originally from Birmingham, West Midlands, was singer with heavy metal band Black Sabbath and was previously better known for stage antics like biting the head off a bat than for being a family man.

But in the show, he gives his children advice on sex, drink and drugs, argues with neighbours who keep him awake by playing folk music, and sits around in his underpants.

Fifty-five cameras watched the family for 24 hours a day for six months to compile the show, which has been watched by six million people per week in the US.

Sharon is also Ozzy's manager

Its success has led Ozzy to seek a seven-figure fee for a second series, it has been reported.

Ozzy, 53, his wife and manager Sharon and their children Kelly, 17, and Jack, 16, were filmed in their Beverly Hills home.

He has battled drink and drug addictions, been notorious for trashing cars and hotel rooms, bitten the head off a live dove in a meeting with record executives and spent time in jail after urinating on The Alamo.

'Dead things'

The TV series was a chance to show his version of family values, he has said.

"What is a functional family? I know I'm dysfunctional by a long shot, but what guidelines do we all have to go by? The Waltons?" he said

Viewers also see scenes such as the family moving home, and packing boxes with one marked "linens" and another marked "dead things".

Ozzy still releases solo albums and heads the popular annual Ozzfest rock festival.

This year's Ozzfest takes place on 25 May at Castle Donington, Leicestershire.