Danny Baker is hit by backlash over his Twitter joke blaming Ozzy Osbourne’s Parkinson’s on cocaine

Danny Baker has been condemned by social media users after he joked that former Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne’s past cocaine use had caused him to develop Parkinson’s disease.

It comes just eight months after the radio journalist was sacked by the BBC over a tweet in which the 61-year-old shared a picture of a couple walking a chimpanzee in a suit and wrote: ‘Royal baby leaves hospital.’

Earlier this week rock veteran Osbourne revealed that he had been diagnosed with the disease after suffering with health issues from a fall last year.    

In the tweet Baker said: ‘Not to be unsympathetic to a genuine hero but when Ozzie Osbourne says his ‘mild Parkinson’s’ is down to a fall he once had I’m thinking it must have been when he fell into a vat full of cocaine in 72 and didn’t get out again for 35 years.’

Danny Baker tweeted out the above on January 21 and many social media users were outraged 

Ozzy Osbourne (pictured above) recently revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

The BBC Radio 5 Live host sparked outrage after he uploaded this image of a couple clinging on to a monkey wearing a suit with the caption: ‘Royal baby leaves hospital’

Twitter users were outraged with many saying he was ‘nasty’ and were outraged that he could even joke about the disease.

One said: ‘Parkinson’s is a cruel crue duseasel. Bare that in mind’, and another user added: ‘So wrong. #Parkinsons is not a coke fuelled consequence. It’s an indiscriminate pig of a disease that can blight the lives of anyone’.

Another user said: ‘Really helpful when discussing a situation that tears a) the person and b) their family apart. I’m not being ‘woke’ but you and I are old enough to remember the phrase ‘it’s not a laughing matter’. Cruel.’

Hinting as his previous issue on social platforms, another user said it was ‘becoming harder and harder’ to ‘respect’ him.

Social media users replied to his tweet with many branding him ‘cruel’ for joking about the disease 

One added: ‘Not funny, just nasty and ill-informed.’ 

Osbourne revealed the severity of his condition while appearing on Good Morning America.

He said he had had to have neck surgery because of the condition.

When Osbourne had been working as an artist he had previously opened up about his cocaine fuelled lifestyle.

He is now clean and in 2018 he said if he was asked to pick between a gun or a bag of cocaine then he would chose the gun.