In his seventh decade, Donny Osmond has a nightly present on the Las Vegas strip and is about to return to the UK stage for a flip in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Bible-inspired musical Joseph and the Wonderful Technicolor Dreamcoat.
This is able to all come as a shock to his childhood good friend and fellow famous person Michael Jackson, whom Osmond remembers giving him some stark recommendation when his profession hit the pits within the Nineteen Eighties.
Osmond got here to fame within the Sixties and early Seventies together with his singing household of six brothers, one sister, whereas on the similar time Jackson was the breakout star of his circle of relatives group, The Jackson 5. Each teams offered hundreds of thousands around the globe, and Donny turned a solo famous person.
Nonetheless, following twenty years of success, Donny Osmond may immediately not get arrested. In an interview with The Occasions of London, he remembers asking Michael Jackson for recommendation. Jackson’s reply, in line with Osmond was, “‘Change your identify. It’s poison.’ He was proper, however I by no means did.”
Osmond is now 66 and performs a present in Las Vegas in the course of the week. Nonetheless going robust, he mirrored his recommendation to any wannabe younger star could be: “Don’t consider your individual hype; take the trash out; do your individual laundry. I did mine final night time.”
