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23 Interesting Donny Osmond Facts

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1- Donald Clark Osmond Born in December 9, 1957

2- Osmond was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Uta

3- “One of Donny’s favorite movies is ‘Waiting for Guffman.’ ”

4- Donny Osmond  is a “Star Wars” fan.

5- He is one of nine children – eight boys

6- For more than 40 years, he and younger sister Marie have also gained fame as Donny & Marie

7- in 2010 Donny Osmond Began hosting the syndicated radio program The Donny Osmond Show 

8-  He has starred on Broadway three times, as the title characters in “Little Johnny Jones” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” and as the villain Gaston in “Beauty and the Beast.”

9- Donny Osmond recorded his signature song, “Puppy Love,” in three takes.

10- In 1998, Osmond was chosen as the singing voice of Shang in Disney’s Mulan. He sang “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.”

11- Donny Osmond Won season 9 of Dancing With the Stars with partner Kym Johnson.

12- The duo also did a 1998–2000 talk show and have been headlining in Las Vegas since 2008.

13- He’s made over 50 albums

14-  his journey was documented in a BBC Wales program, Donny Osmond Coming Home

15- The artist that most influenced him was Stevie Wonder.

16- The one place he’d like to perform where he never has is the Taj Mahal.

17- In the animated television series Johnny Bravo, Osmond voiced himself as a recurring character. 

18-  Donny and Marie have had two hit television shows—Donny and Marie, a variety show in the 1970s; and Donny & Marie, a talk show in the late 1990s.

19- Donny Osmond went on to host Pyramid, a syndicated version of the Dick Clark-hosted television game show that ran two seasons in the US from 2002 to 2004, and a British version of Pyramid on Challenge in 2007.

20- His favorite part of the show at Flamingo is “Soldier of Love.”

21- One of Donny’s pet peeves is when people spell his name “Donnie.” So as a joke the backstage crew at the Flamingo spelled it that way on the gold star on his dressing room door.

22- Osmond hosted the British version of the game show Identity on BBC Two during the daytime.

23- Donny Supports the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Best Buddies, the Children’s Miracle Network and the One Heart Foundation.


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