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Jack Osbourne<\/strong><\/a> has fond memories of his late Dawson\u2019s Creek <\/i>costar James Van Der Beek<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m doing all right, [but] it\u2019s a sad day, though. Freaking James Van Der Beek died,\u201d Osbourne, 40, said on the Wednesday, March 4, episode of the \u201cHate to Break It to Ya\u201d podcast<\/a>, filmed after the actor\u2019s death in February. \u201cI first met James in, like, 2002 when I was a recurring guest on Dawson\u2019s Creek.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Van Der Beek starred as the titular Dawson Leery in Kevin Williamson<\/strong>\u2019s Dawson\u2019s Creek <\/i>from 1998 to 2003. Jack, the son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, played himself in a handful of episodes when he was a teenager.<\/p>\n \u201cI did two episodes [and I] played Jack Osbourne,\u201d he recalled. \u201cIt was, like, Busy Philipps<\/strong>\u2019 character in the show \u2026 lived in L.A., and so the backstory was she used to babysit me, and I was looking at colleges. It was some weird crossover thing. I think it was because The Osbournes <\/i>was so big, and Dawson<\/i>\u2019s ratings were kind of [declining], so maybe they were trying to do, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n Jack, whose family starred on their own MTV reality TV series in the early 2000s, grew closer to Van Der Beek after the pair shared the screen.<\/p>\n \u201cOur kids were friends,\u201d Jack said of James\u2019 six children with wife Kimberly Van Der Beek<\/strong>. \u201cHe had a lot of kids.\u201d<\/p>\n News broke on February 11 that James had died after a two-year battle with stage III colorectal cancer<\/a>. He was 48.<\/p>\n \u201cOur beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning. He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace,\u201d a statement shared<\/a> via James\u2019 Instagram read. \u201cThere is much to share regarding his wishes, love for humanity and the sacredness of time. Those days will come. For now we ask for peaceful privacy as we grieve our loving husband, father, son, brother and friend.\u201d<\/p>\n