“He used to do it all the time”: Noddy Holder reckons Ozzy Osbourne started the tradition of shaving a sleeping drunk’s eyebrows

Slade’s Noddy Holder looks back fondly on some Ozzy Osbourne-related shenanigans

Slade frontman Noddy Holder has claimed that Ozzy Osbourne began the drunken tradition of shaving off the eyebrows of an unconscious party-goer. He made the revelation during an interview with Planet Rock Radio’s Jen Thomas.  

“Ozzy Osbourne stared that!” exclaims Noddy. “If you passed out with Ozzy – whether you were drinking or whatever – he would shave your eyebrows. I could always keep up with Ozzy, so he never did it to me, but quite often he’d shave peoples’ eyebrows.

“Of course, when they wake up in the morning and they look in the mirror, they know there’s something wrong, but they don’t realise their eyebrows have gone. But Ozzy came up with that one. He used to do it all the time.”