The Press Association has issued the following report:

OZZY OSBOURNE has sworn he will not make another TV show because he does not enjoy it.

The BLACK SABBATH rocker starred with wife Sharon Osbourne and children Jack and Kelly in MTV's The Osbournes, setting a trend for fly-on-the-wall celebrity reality shows.

But Ozzy revealed to Absolute Radio's Ben Jones: "I tried to get us back together for a variety show, and I didn't, I don't like TV, I don't like doing it."

He added: "I don't mind doing a guest appearance on a Frank Skinner show or something or occasional advert if its fun, but I'm not the TV guy, I don't like to read cue cards, I always get it wrong anyway. It's very uncomfortable work."

The 60-year-old former drink and drug addict is publishing his autobiography and revealed when wife Sharon sent him to rehab he thought it was a school for drinking.

He said: "When she told me about Betty Ford, I'd never heard of rehab before that, and Sharon said I think they teach you to drink properly, and I thought oh, that's an idea, maybe I'm doing it wrong, you know. So I go to the Betty Ford Centre and Betty Ford reception, and I go well where's the bar?

"I thought it was going to be like a bar with like guys in smoking jackets, bow-ties, and one leg crossed over the other, leaning against the bar, now stir the olive in your martini, take a sip and put it back down, curl your moustache and then have a cigarette. I thought it was like a school of alcoholic drinking, you know."

The Press Association previously reported:

Sharon Osbourne has revealed that her husband Ozzy wrote his autobiography with a pencil.

The man dubbed the Prince of Darkness has recently released his book, I Am Ozzy, in the UK.

Asked whether she had a hand in its creation, Sharon said: "No. It's his autobiography. He did it all by himself - with a pencil."

Ozzy's memoirs describe his early success with rockers BLACK SABBATH, his marriage to Sharon and his battle against drink and drugs.

In the book, extracts of which are published in The Times, he describes the infamous incident when he bit the head off a bat during a concert thinking it was a rubber toy.

He writes that his mouth was full of "warm, gloopy liquid, with the worst aftertaste you could imagine."

I Am Ozzy was released on October 1st in the UK. A North American release for I Am Ozzy will be announced soon.

A book description reads as follows: "Has there ever been a more extraordinary rock-star story than Ozzy Osbourne? Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept in one room, Ozzy endured a tough upbringing. Music was his salvation and his band Black Sabbath went on to change the music scene forever. But along with the rock and roll came the inevitable sex and drugs and Ozzy fell into a long relationship with addictive substances. The stories of Ozzy's days on the road are legendary - biting the head off a live bat, losing his best friend and writing partner Randy Rhoads in a tragic plane crash - but few know of the real heartbreak he suffered during those days of excess. In the end it was love that saved him: the love of his wife Sharon and kids Kelly, Jack and Aimee. In his highly anticipated autobiography, Ozzy comes clean: in all senses."