Kelly Osbourne has paid tribute to her close friend Amy Winehouse on what would have been the late British singer's 43rd birthday. The artist died at the age of 27 in July 2011. She and Osbourne, 41, shared a close bond, with the TV personality paying tribute to Winehouse on numerous occasions in the years following her death.
To mark Winehouse’s birthday on 14 September, Osbourne shared a selection of images showing them together across the years, including posing in photoshoots, shopping trips, and pictures of her friend with her late father, Ozzy Osbourne. In an Instagram post, she wrote: "Happy birthday, my beautiful Amy. A post shared by Kelly Osbourne (@kellyosbourne) "There are some people who come into your life and leave footprints on your heart so deep that time could never possibly erase them.
You are one of those people. "When I think of you, I don’t think of the headlines, the photographs, or the noise. Your wicked sense of humour.
The little moments nobody else saw. The nights we laughed until our stomachs hurt, your meat balls, the conversations that only best friends could understand, and that extraordinary heart you carried beneath all that brilliance." She added: "You were magic, Amy. Beautifully, wildly, imperfectly human and so very loved.
Today, I hope wherever you are, you are surrounded by the kind of peace you deserved here." Osbourne stated that Winehouse was "still loved, still missed, still spoken about with laughter and tears, and still carried in the hearts of the people lucky enough to have known you". "I miss you in ways words will never quite manage to explain. So today I won’t say goodbye.
I’ll simply say what I wish I could have said to you every year: Happy birthday, sweetheart. Keep singing somewhere beautiful. Until we meet again." Winehouse achieved global stardom following the release of her landmark 2006 album Back To Black.
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