Jack Osbourne answered fans who were disappointed with his attendance at the UFC fight that took place at the White House last week.
The UFC Freedom 250 took place on June 14, where the son of the late rock icon, Ozzy Osbourne, defended his attendance.
“Alright, I want to address me going to the White House to the UFC fight. First of all, some of the comments I’ve been getting are completely insane,” Osbourne said in a video on Instagram on June 18. “Like, what the f***? I went to a sporting event. That’s it.”
While he addressed his attendance, he shared a couple of screenshots from fans who were disappointed to see he decided to go to the event hosted by President Donald Trump.
“Who would want to go… baffling… embarrassing,” one fan wrote with another fan writing, “This is kinda devastating not gonna lie.”
“I didn’t go and throw my hat into the ring for political office,” he said. “I wasn’t there going to endorse a politician or some kind of foreign affairs issue. Nothing. I literally went to the White House to go see UFC. I have been into combat sports my entire life. I started doing Taekwondo at 6. I used to go to Thailand every year in my late teens, early 20s to do Muay Thai. I have fought Muay Thai fights professionally.”
Jack continued, “In my 30s, I started doing Ju Jitsu. I have also attended UFC and Pride fights going back to the early 2000s. It is something that has been a part of my life since I can remember. So when I got invited by Dana White to attend the fight at the White House, of course I would go. Any person out there who would get an invite would have gone, I’m sorry. There is no one I could think of that would have been like, ‘Oh, no. I’m not going because I don’t approve of Orange Man.’ Or whatever the f***. That’s ridiculous. It was not a political event, or in my eyes it was not. It was a f***ing fight at the White House. Who gives a s***?”
Some fans also brought Jack’s father, Ozzy, into the incident, sharing how he stood politically given that he is known for his 1970 anti-war ballad, “War Pigs.” Ozzy was the lead singer of the iconic rock band Black Sabbath and found immense success going solo, died in July 2025 from a heart attack.
“You did not know my father. You did not know where he stood with things,” Jack added. “Yes, he wrote a song called ‘War Pigs.’ Anti-war song. He wasn’t anti-UFC. He wasn’t anti-going-to-an-event-at-the-White-House. He’s anti-war. Sure, fair enough. But, at the end of the day, my dad still attended the Correspondents’ Dinner back in the day when Bush was president. George Bush gave him a shoutout.”
Jack concluded his statement, justifying his reason behind going to the event, “I simply attended a sporting event for a sport that I have a great amount of respect for and something that has been a part of my life since I can remember, so deal with it and I’m sorry you weren’t invited.”
He is not the only celebrity to defend his attendance at the event. Alexis Ohanian, who is married to tennis icon Serena Williams, also shared why he decided to attend.
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