Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond
Donny Osmondis an American singer, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmonds. Osmond went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as "Go Away Little Girl" and "Puppy Love"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth9 December 1957
CityOgden, UT
CountryUnited States of America
I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.
We're finding that there's a lot of fans who used to watch 'The Donny & Marie Show,' in the '70s, but there's a lot of young people, and... it's broadened. That's the kind of show we want to put together, something that the whole family can watch together.
Regis really turned the genre around, didn't he? He put such a cool factor on the whole game-show genre, ... Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.
Doing a talk show is the equivalent of the viewers inviting the hosts into their living rooms. I'd like to think that Middle America would enjoy having Kathie Lee and me drop by for a visit each weekday.
Everything is cyclical. And right now it's a cool thing for me to do,
Always surround yourself with people who are better than you. If you're hanging around bad people, they're going to start bringing you down . . . But, if you surround yourself with good people, they're going to be pulling you up.
You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.
Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.
I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.
Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.
Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.
You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!
You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'