Kelly Osbourne pays sweet birthday tribute to late Amy Winehouse

Kelly Osbourne has paid tribute to her close friend Amy Winehouse on what would have been the late British singer's 43rd birthday.

She and Osbourne 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 September 14, 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, the legendary Ozzy Osbourne.

In an Instagram post, she wrote: "Happy birthday, my beautiful Amy.”

"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,” Osbourne further mentioned.

She continued, "When I think of you, I don’t think of the headlines, the photographs, or the noise. I think of your laugh. 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."

"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,” The Osbournes star penned.

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. I love you. I always will. Keep singing somewhere beautiful. Until we meet again,” Kelly Osbourne concluded in her tribute.

It is also pertinent to mention that Amy Winehouse, one of the most successful pop stars, died on July 23, 2011 due to alcohol poisoning.