Just Trish - Donny Osmond Makes Trisha's WILDEST Dreams Come True

Episode Date: September 14, 2023

Trisha sits down with her DREAM guest–legendary entertainer Donny Osmond! Together, the two reminisce on their long friendship, sing some of Donny's biggest hits and reflect on the peaks and valleys of his iconic career. Plus, Donny surprises Trisha with a FaceTime call from his son, Chris, to spill ALL the tea about competing on the hit ABC reality show 'Claim to Fame'! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey guys, what's up? Welcome back to Just Trish. We are in Las Vegas for the most special edition, special guest. I could almost cry thinking about it. Donny Aspin. How are you? Nice to see you. Nice to see you. We've known each other for years. Well, I've come to your meet and greets for years. Since you were like 12 years old. Since I was 12 years old. And it is just life changing to be here with you right now. This

felt like the universal lining. I've been on a spiritual past, like past few years. I was like on the spiritual journey and I was like, since the baby, yes, I couldn't get pregnant for so long. And then I started the spiritual journey and just thinking positive and all this stuff like that. And everything just started aligning. What's the baby's name? Malibu Barbie. Malibu Barbie. Yes. Oh my goodness. That's so cool. Yeah. She's going to be one next, uh, next Thursday when this interview will go up. Oh, that's cool. It's all aligning. It changes your life, doesn't it? Yes. Yeah.

I mean, your life is busy. I mean, it changes your life completely, but it completes your life, doesn't it? It completes it in such a way I can never imagine. I was a selfish person before. I was very much that, all about me, and now it's just all about her, everything about her. But she's also so pure, which I love. And you know what's interesting? When you have your second child, if you're planning on having a second child. We are, we're trying. Okay. You think, how can I love another one as much as I love the first one? But it happens. Really? Oh, it happens.

Times five for you. Times five for us. And then times 14 for the grandbabies. That's crazy. I know I was asking you this last night, which I wanted to ask you because you are so family oriented. Like how do you balance, because you are so busy, you're like on tour, you're in Vegas, you're doing all of it with like also being a family guy, being a grandpa, being a dad. How do I balance it all? You just do it.

Because you know what's interesting about that, Tricia, is that so many things come across my desk, opportunities and things like that. And you'd love to do it, but then you have to draw a line in the sand and say, okay, is this going to compromise my time with my wife, my children, my grandchildren? Yes, it's tough. I mean, the show business world is very demanding. As you know, you're in it, basically.

But you have to just say, okay, enough is enough. Now it's time to spend time with the people who matter. And that's, but you have to just say, okay, enough is enough. Now it's time to spend time with the people who matter. And that's your family. Yeah. And finding that, cause that's what I love on your TikTok too, is seeing you like just gardening, just being a regular person. And I was like, how does he do both? How do you, cause you're a rockstar. You're literally a legend here in Vegas. We saw your show last night and people, these fans have been following you, including me for as long as I was 12, but some of them have been 12 in the 70s with you. Yes, absolutely. And it's like the fan base you have is astounding.

Like you're literally a rock star. You're literally like Elvis. Like that's really. You're more than Elvis because you've been in Vegas longer. Whatever. But then you're just. But you're also just like. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you. Honestly, you are better than Elvis, honestly, because you're just. Well, thank you. You're like the way you perform. So I'm just like, I don't think Elvis could tap dance. I don't think he's going to do that. I don't think he's tap dancing.

No, but boy, he could move those hips. Yeah. He was great. Yes. If you did a movie of your life, like the Elvis biopic with Austin Butler, who would play you in your movie? You know, I'm going to ask you that question. Who do you think would be good?

Well, originally I was thinking, you know, like Harry Styles, Justin Bieber. Yeah. Justin Bieber, maybe for the teenager. Right. Well, he's not a teenager anymore, but a younger one. Too many tattoos. So Harry Styles is a good actor. But then I was thinking, well, I watched Claim to Fame recently,

so maybe your own son, Chris. Chris. He did a great job, didn't he? He did a great job. He looks just like you, which is why all of social media was like, how do you not know that's not Donny Osmond's son? He played the game so well. And in my opinion, of course, I'm going to say this anyway because I'm biased.

I thought he was the star. He made the show very interesting. Of course. You know, Gabriel, he did an amazing job keeping people saying, okay, he's part of the NFL. He's in the sports world. It's Nick Cannon. It's Nick Cannon. You know what I'm saying?

The clue with all the babies on it. I mean, who's populating the earth more than him and Elon Musk? Right. You know what I'm saying? Well, you and your grandkids do. Well, I'm getting there, too. Yeah. No, that's what I was shocked.

But did Chris not know? Chris didn't know. He saw the 12-baby clue, and he didn't know. He couldn't figure it out. He doesn't keep up with pop culture maybe as much. He does to a certain extent. He and his wife, Alta, she stays up with it as well. Yeah.

And of course, she wasn't with him. They couldn't talk over the phone. And she's probably screaming at the television and saying, it's Nick Cannon. It's Nick Cannon. Right. I think he would have gotten there. Do you know what's really interesting about that? Okay, so I worked with Nick Cannon on The Masked Singer.

Yeah. Okay. J.B. Smoove came in second. Yeah. He's the face of Caesars. He's on my billboard outside of Harrah's all the time. Oh, my gosh. So it's kind of like this little family of people that really were the finals on.

That's crazy. I got an idea. What, tell me? I got an idea. Let's call Chris. Yeah, oh my gosh, can we? Let me see. Do you think he'll care?

Okay. Hold on. You should text him, give him a heads up. We can also cut it if he doesn't want to be on. Let me just see if he's busy. Oh my gosh. He is the star of the moment. He said, stepping out of your shadow and into his own, and I think that's so true.

I thought what that little tribute he did at the end of me, it made me cry. I was crying. It just made me cry. Because he had so much love and respect for you, and you could tell he just wanted to follow in your footsteps but not be exactly you. And he's in his own person now. People love him. Yes.

They're like, we're such a fan of Chris. Yeah, he's got such a fan. My fan base kept the ratings high on that show. Oh, of course. Everybody was just like, hello're such a fan of Chris. Yeah, he's got such a fan. My fan base kept the ratings high on that show. Oh, of course. Everybody was just like, hello? Hello. Hey, Chris. What's up?

Hey, I'm doing an interview with Trisha right now. Are you busy? You're doing an interview with Trisha? Yeah. Are you busy? I mean, no. Can I FaceTime you? I guess you can.

Okay. Hold on, hold on. Say hi you can. Okay. Hold on. Say hi to Chris. Oh, my God. I love you so much. Oh, my God. I can't believe I'm with you right now, too. I'm with Donnie at Chris Osmond.

I'm like, I'm fanboying over here. No, stop it. I was obsessed with you on Claim to Fame. The whole world is in love with you. I just said, if there's a movie about Donnie's life, they need to make it now and you need to play him, like Austin Butler status. I know, right? Well, now I'm beginning to think, well, maybe I look more like

Elvis Presley or like Billy Idol now. It's kind of weird. Definitely not Billy Idol, but Elvis we could see. Elvis? Yeah. John Mayer, Jim Carrey, you kind of do look like everyone. Yes. I thought he did such... I thought he was in my favor... You did such an amazing job, buddy. You played the game so well strategically. Every week, every week, you really were the star

because every week they were trying to take you out and guess you. And nobody could do it. If it wasn't for that last clue, they would have never guessed. Give me your opinion about the lunchbox. Yeah, we need to know. Okay, okay. The lunchbox, I'm like, you scratched out the face, and there's a face on there. Come on.

Yes. Like, it did feel a little bit like, ooh. A setup, a little bit of a setup. A little bit. A little bit of a setup. Yeah. You know? But I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell the world, I'm going to tell the world what I told you.

Okay, you ready? Since he came in, it was third. Everybody is saying, you should have won. You should have won. You should have won. The whole game, you played so good. You didn't just glide by. You were up for elimination every single week and won. That's the true winner when you have to face the battle over and over.

I'm kind of happy with a third place. I'm a third place man. You're not. You are not a third place. You are first third place man. You're not. You are not a third place. You are first place all the way. I was so excited. But so many people just like love you for you, you know. I have to thank all of the moms out there because that's really what's important.

I love that. No offense to that, Dad. No, no. I get it. I get it. But you said something at the end that was like, Chris, when he was introducing me before I showed my video, he said, that's an old guy right there. Something like that.

You are an old guy. Hey, stop it. But a legend. But you did call him a legend, which he is. Yeah, that's true. That's true. You had me in tears. Zane, you had us all.

I truly, truly love you. I started following you on Instagram because of the show. And I was like, wow's true. That's true. You had me in tears. Zane, you had us all. I truly, truly love you. I started following you on Instagram because of the show and I was like, wow, everyone knows your music now. Everyone knows your voice now

and it's amazing. I noticed that you followed me. Of course I did. Oh, you did? Oh my gosh. I didn't know if I should. I was like, I don't know.

I don't want to be creepy but obviously now everyone loves you because of that show. I'm a big fan of yours and your podcast is amazing. Oh, thank you. I am so honored fan of yours. Thank you. And your podcast is amazing. Oh, thank you. I am so honored to be here with your dad and also with you, truly.

I really mean that. That was the first question out of my mouth. And at the meet and greet, too, everyone's just like, what do you think of Chris on Cling to Fame? Everyone just wants to know what the show is. So I'm honored to meet you. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.

Hey, thanks, Chris. Sorry to bother you. All right. Thank you. See you, buddy. Bye. Well, that was cool. Oh, my gosh. That was cool. Your family is so nice. Sorry to bother you. All right. Thank you. See you, buddy. Bye. Well, that was cool. Oh, my gosh.

That was cool. Your family is so nice. I always said this. You are the nicest celebrity I've ever met. And to every single person. And not just on VIP meet and greets. Just in general, at the show, everything. You're just so kind.

Well, I appreciate that. Because here's my philosophy. OK? I have seen a lot of celebrities in my lifetime. I've been doing this for 60 years and it drives me crazy, Tricia, when a celebrity shuns a fan because the fan made them a star. It doesn't make any sense. I, I won't mention names, but I was on a flight one time and this big celebrity, okay. Sports figure was up in first class. And this little boy,

maybe it was 10 years old, came up from coach and said, would you sign my autograph? Sign your autograph for me, please. He pulls out a pre-signed card. And on one side was his signature. On the other side says, I don't bother you. Don't bother me. I thought. To a child?

To a child. Yeah. And I thought, you've got to be kidding me. Yeah. This kid idolizes you've got to be kidding me. Yeah. This kid idolizes you and you do that? And to take the courage as a child, even as an adult to take the courage to talk to celebrities a lot, but as a child, it's gut-wrenching when they do that. Gut-wrenching.

Yeah. I learned a lot from Elvis Presley because we asked him one time, what would you do if you did it all over again? And he said, I'd stay closer to my fans because I would like to get a little bit. Can you imagine what he could have done with social media? Oh my gosh. If he was alive now, he would be, yeah. He'd be you because you're very, you utilize social media to like a T. You're so good at it. I think it's so important. Social media, you can get too involved and it just controls your life,

or you can use it as a tool to stay in touch with everybody. And that's the way I do it. Yeah. So, but I love social media. Yeah. It's so fun. What's your favorite? TikTok, Instagram, Facebook? I like TikTok.

You're so good at it. I love TikTok, what you could do with it. You're so good. So Insta and TikTok, probably my favorites. TikTok's my favorite, too. Yeah. Yeah, it gave me a resurgence. I was kind of like fading for a little bit because I've been doing social media for 16

years. I kind of faded. And then TikTok came. You are so good at it. Well, I try. You know what I love about you? What? The speed at which you talk. Oh, wow. You know that. You know that. I'm trying to slow down for you. Oh, no, no, no, no. Don't slow down for me because I love it. Thank you. In fact, didn't you want to try to be the fastest talker? Oh, my gosh. How do you know this? Oh, I researched, baby. I'm shocked. Oh my gosh, I did. I was on a TV show for Guinness World Records. They gave me a Hamlet soliloquy.

But it was a lot of complicated words. And so it's just hard to talk that fast with such words like that. You know what I mean? So I didn't get the record. But I tried. But you must have been close. I was close. I just didn't enunciate all the words correctly.

So that's why I didn't get it. I just beat it technically. The judges didn't know what they were talking about. They didn't know. They were British. You won. Yeah. Thank you.

I love that. They were British. We love British. Also, you're huge in the UK. You're like huge over there. It's unbelievable. What is that about? It's a completely different career. Over in the United States, I'm more of like a television personality, an entertainer. But over there, it's a lot more like a recording artist. And so this tour that's coming up, I've got a huge arena tour coming up at the end of November and I'm creating this effect. Coldplay did it in their tour and I'm taking it to the next level. So they use these spheres with orbs,

lighting orbs inside of it and they throw them in the audience and they're bouncing all over the audience. But what I'm doing and they're coding this for me in Germany and China right now, because, because my specifications takes it to the next level. In fact, I was talking to the designer via Zoom. He said, you're out of your mind. It's going to be amazing. And I'm actually doing the programming in the writing console for all these. There's like 24 orbs all over the arena. And the dancers have some too. And the orbs change colors according to their choreography.

I mean, there's one thing where they spin and let go of it. It changes color when they let go and changes again when they grab it. What? Oh, it's so complicated. I've never seen this. No, it's never happened before. I'm the first one to be able to do it.

What made you come up with this idea? It's my brain. I mean, this is the way my brain thinks. the first one to be able to do it. What made you come up with this idea? It's my brain. I mean, this is the way my brain thinks. Oh, my God. But you're so involved. I didn't think you'd be that involved with the creative. Oh, no, no. I'm involved in the minutia of it all.

Oh, my God. So what do you do in the middle of the night? You think of these ideas. Do you make it on the Notes app on your phone? Or do you do notes? It's all there. How many notes do you have? Do you have over 1,000?

Oh, way over 1,000. Really? Yeah, there's another program that I use for my tasks, my to-do list. And I'm actually good friends with the designer. And I'm telling him how to redesign his program. Oh, my God. Donny Asman, computer programmer. Here's another one.

When, oh, what's it called? Hey, Glenn. Yeah. What's it called? The original smartphone. The BlackBerry? BlackBerry, excuse me. called? Hey, Glenn. Yeah. What's it called? The original smartphone. The BlackBerry? BlackBerry. Excuse me.

I didn't know either. I had a brain fart. So when BlackBerry first came out, I was one of their beta testers. And so they sent me one of these BlackBerrys. And I was doing it. And I changed their OS. Wait, what? Their operating system.

He said, what do you think of this? And I wrote out three long pages of changes they had to do through the operating system, and they changed it all. Wait, why did you get sent it? Because you're a celebrity? Because of the tech part of you? I was doing the Donnie Murray talk show at the time, and they thought, let's send him one, and maybe we can get some promotion.

Oh, my God. You just changed the whole system? They opened up a door. Wait, how do you know how to do all this? You didn't go to college, right? Because you were a performer. No, I never went to school. Wait, ever?

I never. Well, I went to two weeks of the second grade, two weeks of the sixth grade, and one semester of college. And that's all I did. The rest of it was homeschooled. Oh, wait. So how do you know how to do all this tech stuff? I have no idea. It's one of those things where I just dug it out myself. It's just a passion of mine. I studied electronics in college for that one semester and aced it. Oh, my gosh. But I'm pretty much a geek when it comes to electronics and all that kind of stuff.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd probably work for Apple or something or some computer company. You should do that for a day. You know how Ed Sheeran was in Starbucks promoting his album? Maybe you should go to Apple and promote yours. Start again. You just planted a seed. Never too late.

Nope. You planted it. Or I'd call Elon. I'd say, can I be part of SpaceX? Oh, my gosh. Would you go in SpaceX if you had the opportunity? If you were there. I don't know if I'd go by myself.

Would you do it? I would actually go to the moon if I had the opportunity. Why would you? I've got a story for you. Okay, you ready for this? Buzz Aldrin told me this story. So back when they shut up the Apollo missions. Well, first of all, let me back up.

I remember I was a little kid, maybe 9, 10 years old or something like that, when I watched the landing on the moon, when Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. It affected me so much that after it was all over, I went out and laid down on the grass, looked up at the moon, and thought to myself, you know how little kids dream, I want to be one of the first singers from the moon. So later on, fast forward, Buzz Aldrin said when one of the Apollo missions went to the moon, they took with them an audio tape of Andy Williams singing Aquarius. This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. I'm singing backgrounds on that song. They left the tape on the moon. My voice is sitting on

the moon. Wait, right now? Yes. Oh my God, they just left it there? They left it there. So one of these days I gotta go back and get my tape. Oh my God. Do you think you'll do it? Do you think if they asked you tomorrow you would go and do it? I'd have to talk to my wife about that. Because how long does it take to get up there? Oh, I don't know.

Three days to get to the moon. Oh, okay. I thought it was like months. That's not bad. Mars, it would take months. Okay. The moon. But the moon, especially with this new technology, we might just get it down. Have you seen the new supersonic jet that's coming out in 27? No.

Where does it go? We get from New York to London in what? Was it three hours? No, 90 minutes? We have. Something like that. How does that work? Speed of light or something?

Is that like 1,500 miles an hour? I don't understand how it goes that fast. Like, what is it doing? It's called engines. I thought you had to be like transported or something. Beat me up, Scotty. How come it took so long to get it so fast? Why can't we just go this fast now?

Yes. Are you going to take it? I don't think I would trust it to go that fast. I was one of the last flights of the Concorde. Wait, what? I flew on the Concorde from New York to London. Oh, my gosh. It took me, what, three and a half hours or something like that?

Wait, what? Oh, yeah. It was like 56,000 feet. I actually felt the fuselage. It was warm because we were going so fast. It was amazing. I'm so glad I did it before they decommissioned them. Oh, my God.

Wait, why did they decommission them? It's expense. Oh. Yeah. Wow. But you could feel it. Wait, why did they decommission them? Oh, it was expense. Oh. Yeah. Wow. But you could feel it. Like, was your face like, you know, when they like go really fast? Yeah, we took off.

I'm like, no, no. Your face looks great. I'm like, maybe that's why you look so young and vibrant. It was amazing because the wind will do that. That's crazy. Yeah. I didn't know any of this. Who knew?

I didn't know you were so into space. I know so much about you, and I had no idea. Oh, yeah. I'm a geek when it comes to that. Oh, my gosh. I feel like that should be your call. Maybe you could go on, are you on Twitter? Do you tweet? Oh yeah. You could tweet him, I guess. You mean X? X. That's right. I didn't know if you knew the X. It's going to take a generation to switch it from Twitter to X because every time,

every article I read when they quote X formally Twitter in brackets. Yeah. X is a hard rebrand. Yeah. What did you think of that decision from Elon? Oh, I don't know. I was such a tweeter. You know, I like Twitter. I think it's cute, but I don't know. I don't know much about Elon Musk. I'm not too much into, like, technology, you know what I mean?

I'm still kind of stuck in the 70s. I'm very much, like, in that era, in that technology world. What's your favorite? Insta? TikTok.

TikTok. Only because I'm the most popular over there. Everywhere else, I'm like, you know, I kind of flopped or whatever like that, but TikTok is, it's just fun.

It's also, I like to be, I'm like, that's what I like about you, too, is, like, you go with each generation. Like, you stay up with technology. I try to, too, you know, because now there's, like, Gen Z, so I try to keep up with them and see what's new. It's also I like to be, I'm like, that's what I like about you too is like you go with each generation like you stay up with technology. I try to too, you know, because now there's like Gen Z

so I try to keep up with them and see what's new. It's good. It keeps like, you know, you're young. All your generations. Well, what's fun for me is that my grandkids

are now coming up. It's fun to watch them and I live vicariously through them and see how they handle social media and what they do with it. Right.

Are they on your grandkids? They're young. They're very young, yeah. Some of them are. Will you rise with the sun to help change mental health care forever? Join the Sunrise Challenge to raise funds for CAMH, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, to support life-saving progress in mental health care.

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yeah, go for it? Or would you be like, hmm? Yeah, I would. It's to their advantage to have me as a grandpa. Right. Because there's a lot of pit holes that you've got to avoid. But it's an amazing business when it works. When it doesn't, it's so hard. Breaking into the business is one thing. Maintaining a career is a whole other animal. What's the secret? Reinvention.

Like, for instance, I'm constantly doing new things to the show, constantly changing things and making it new. Every time somebody comes to the show, my mentality is I want you to leave happier than when you came. It works. I want you to say that was worth the price of admission and more. Again, it sounds like a promotion for the tour, but I am so excited for this tour coming up because of the spheres. I'm going to be incorporating AI into my show. I'm not going to say any more.

Oh, my gosh. But next year is going to be some amazing stuff happening here at Harris. Wow. Oh, I wish I could be some amazing stuff happening here at Harris. Wow. Oh, I wish I could tell you because it'll blow your mind. I'm going to tell me. No, I can't. A little tease? I can't even give you a tease.

But you can only imagine with the technology of AI what I can do with that. Like, I can only imagine like you maybe duplicate yourself or bring your brothers actually on stage. You always tease that your brothers are coming on. That's the end of this conversation. Okay. Because that would be so cool. Everyone gets excited when you're like, my brothers.

And then it's like your dancers, which we love. Oh, don't you love that segment? Yeah. Just to tell everybody about it. So they're getting ready. These four guys, my dancers, are in the same outfits as me. They're on stage and their backs to the audience. And I say to the audience, you are not going to believe what I have been able to pull off

tonight because I wanted to make this show extra special. I do this every night. I shouldn't tell everybody. I do it every night. And it gets the audience. And I said, my brothers are here tonight. Audience goes crazy. Because you see them in the shadows.

You see four in the shadows. And the lights light up. It's my dancers. And everybody goes, aw. No bad for your dancers. Yeah, exactly. Because they're so good. An ego blow.

Well, maybe. Would you ever do a reunion tour? I don't think so. With my brothers? Yeah. I don't think so. Everybody's pretty much retired. Oh, really? And there's no retirement happening for you in the future? I don't know what that word means. Yeah. You're like, I'm just going to go forever. Oh, yeah. I mean, 60 years. I don't know any performer at 60 years. Nobody, right? Well, I'm sure there's somebody out there. And I've got to do at least three more albums, then I'll beat Elvis' record. Really? Yeah, then I'll have the record.

He had more than 65, I thought. Oh, he has tons when you talk about... Like singles, international... No, I'm talking about compilations and things like that after he passed away. But according to my calculations and people I've talked to, it's 68, I believe, and I'm at 65.

Oh, he had an earlier start than you two. He was in the 50s, right? No. No. I had an earlier start. No. Oh, I meant like from years to now. Oh, from years to now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were a five. That's crazy. And you're a child star that had no problems. You just grew up perfect, basically, right? Well, you know, I don't want to get this into a deep and dark place. But no, I was not immune to any problems. Wait, really?

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Have you talked about this? Because I read your book, too, the one that came out with the purple cover. Yeah, and I think it's important for people to know that nobody's perfect. And that's what I try to be is perfect. And that's what will kill you is that you never can reach perfection. You can do your best, but you're going to make mistakes. Yeah.

And you have to acknowledge those mistakes. The other day, I'm on stage. I do that Andy Williams tribute. Moon river, wider than a mile. I started out and I go, moon river. Cracked the note. And I stopped the show. Wait, when was this?

Oh, this was weeks and weeks ago. I stopped the show. And everybody was just, you could, this was weeks and weeks ago. I stopped the show. And everybody was just, you could hear a pin drop. What's he going to do? I said, ladies and gentlemen, you came to hear me sing. And I just cracked a note. Let's start the song again.

And people love you for that. Moon river, yeah! And everybody's cheers and cheers. It's one of those things. And the reason I bring this up is that you're not perfect. You're going to make mistakes. And it's okay. It's all right.

Because honestly, I've never heard you ever crack a note. Every time I see it, your voice is literally perfection every time. Oh, thanks. I've never once. Really? Oh, sure. I've seen you so many times. I'm like, wow.

Even you talking right now before a show tonight, how are you keeping your voice? I exercise all, wow. Even you talking right now before our show tonight, like how are you keeping your voice? I exercise all the time. There's all kinds of these vocalese exercises that I work on my vocal folds and it's like we're going to turn this into a little medical

review, but there are two little rubber bands, right? That's what your vocal cords are. And when you talk like this, it's the worst thing you can do because air is going through. You create nodules. I had two operations. I lost my voice twice in my life. Oh, my gosh.

When? What era was this? Oh, it was like during Joseph. What? I was like, give me my color code, my amazing color code. And something popped. No. It's when I was flying over the audience and the the show was over, and I thought, oh. So I went backstage coughing up blood.

Went to the doctor the next day. I'm thinking he'll just say, take a rest for three or four days, and you're on. He hands me a chalkboard and a piece of chalk. He says, that's how you're going to communicate for the next three months. Oh, my God. You didn't talk? Didn't talk. Wow.

Yeah. And you had to get surgery. I did get surgery on my right vocal fold, but it wasn't a polyp. It wasn't a nodule, because I do sing correctly. It was a polyp. Opera singers get it. Right. It's a blood vessel that just pops.

So he had to remove that. Oh my God. And then you were back. And the same doctor who got Adele back singing, got Lionel Richie back singing. Oh my gosh. The guy's amazing. Must be hard to get an appointment with him. What's his name?

Stephen Zytel out of Boston. Probably you have to be Donny Osmond or Lionel Richie to get an appointment, I would assume. He only works with the best voices. Whatever, whatever. No, he's amazing. If you lost your voice tomorrow, what would you be doing? Crying a lot. No, because that's who I am.

Yeah. I've been singing since I was four. If you couldn't sing, you... If I couldn't sing, probably go to work with Elon or Apple. Go to space. Go to space. Work on some technology with Apple. I don't know.

I don't even want to think about that because it is... I've been there twice and it's not a good feeling. Because I love getting on stage. There's something euphoric, and you saw it last night in the show. I love getting on stage. There's something euphoric and you saw it last night in the show. I love getting out there. It's hard. I mean, I sweat my guts out. I leave everything on stage at the end of the show. I'm just so tired. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. But there's something about seeing the faces in the audience and turning them around and just,

for instance, I've always had predominantly a female following, right? So later on in my life, as we got older and older, guys would come to the show, and either their wife dragged them or their girlfriend dragged them. I don't want to be here. The other night, this is so funny. This guy, front row, dead center. He was there because his wife made him be there. The curtains opened up and we're doing the song, like a thief in the night. And he's just

like, gets on his phone. He's on his phone throughout the entire night. Divorce right away. Divorce. But I'm thinking to myself, I going to get this guy The whole show, I was dedicated I'm going to get this guy And I play this every once in a while Because every once in a while you get these guys And he's like this, and by the end of the show He's on his feet, dancing Clapping, and just before the curtain

Closes, he comes right to the front of the stage And he gives me a high five That was awesome! And it's like, boom! Wow! You do convert people. My dad, too, he took me to see Donny and Marie when you guys were at Flamingo, and he's like a Marie fan, of course, you know, the guys,

especially in that era. But after the show, he's like, wow, Donny is amazing. He was like gushing over it. He's like, his voice, I didn't know. I was like, how did you not know? He took me to see Joseph, but he was one of those people in Joseph who would fall asleep, and you're like oh my gosh dad wake up or whatever like that just because that's my dad

but Joseph is the best show ever but the Vegas show he was just like oh I love Donnie I'm a Donnie fan now isn't that cool you converted him quickly and that's how I knew

Moses was the one because I'd taken boyfriends before to your show and they're those people they're like I don't want to do this they wouldn't let me go to the meet and greet after and so when he was like

let's go to the meet and greet pre-show I was like wow that's the one marry him you know that's cool yeah no it's amazing and that's why I was going, wow, that's the one. Marry him, you know. That's cool. Yeah, no, it's amazing. And that's why I was going to ask you, after being 11 years with Donny and Marie, you signed to Harris for one year. Now you're going on your third year.

Yes. Is it just, you were like, 11 years wasn't enough. So you're like, let me just come back for more. I've always wanted to do this kind of show. Not just a show away from Marie, because I enjoyed working with her. It was really a cool show. We had such a rapport on stage. We could look at each other and know exactly what's going to happen.

But I've always, my whole life, wanted to do this kind of show, which encompasses everything I've done, including Donny and Marie. Yeah, you do the tribute to her. Yeah, I do the tribute to Marie. And so after that show ended, I had in the back of my mind, this is going to be a gamble because we're coming off of huge success. And now I'm going to go on my own. And I know there are a lot of naysayers out there.

Can you really do this? Well, hello. I had a career long before. And I'm so grateful because it's working. It's working. Wildly successful. The show is just as big. It's just as bright.

People are so excited. It is all, you said predominantly female. It's like all female. Like you said, with the occasional husband or something in there. But it is crazy. And I became a Marie fan after I went to the Donny and Marisha. Yeah, she's a talented lady. Yeah, because I knew you from Joseph.

That's my generation. You talk about generations knowing you from different things like Mulan, Masked Singer. I know you from Joseph. So then when I went to see the show and I saw Marie, I was like, oh my gosh, she's like an opera singer. She's like. She's got a voice that's amazing. So good. It runs in your family because we talked about Chris.

Chris has got a great voice. Would you ever do a revival of Joseph? I don't think so. Not as Joseph, maybe as Jacob. You could do Joseph. What? If I played the Pharaoh. Oh. You know that song? Yeah. Maybe I could play the Pharaoh. You would

do so good. Wouldn't that be weird for you to be like, not Joseph, because you are Joseph? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I'd ever do it. Because that was such an amazing time in my life. There are certain peaks and valleys in my life that I look back on. Obviously, the beginning, Puppy Love was a big peak, One Bad Apple, the Donny and Marie show, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Dancing with the Stars, The Masked Singer. And there's so many things that I can look at as peaks. Keep in mind, with those peaks come valleys. And I talked about it in the show, in the wrap last night, when I talked about opening and closing on Broadway in one show. Yeah.

Ouch, baby. That was crazy. But. That really baby. Ouch. That was crazy. Did that really happen one night? It really happened. We were in previews, and then we opened and closed. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. That was the 80s.

That was 82, something like that. Wow. And 10 years, almost to the month, is when I started Joseph. Wow. That was one of my main motivations to do Joseph, was to redeem myself after that huge failure. Wow. Oh, my gosh.

What do you do after that? Because rejection is the hardest for me. When something flops, I'm just like, I don't know how to recover. It's so difficult. How do you not spiral? Well, you do spiral. You don't. But in my opinion, failure is the impetus to success.

Probably one of the best things that ever happened to me was in 1982, that failure on Broadway, because what it did is it lit a fire underneath me to say, okay, Donnie, you've got to reinvent yourself. Went back to the studio and worked hard, hard, hard, hard, and that's when I came up with Soldier of Love. They called that the comeback of the 80s.

Watching your show and seeing that, because I wasn't too familiar with your 80s stuff and seeing it in the show, that's why I was saying there should be a movie about your life, like your rap that you do. How long is that, by the way? Ten minutes. I mean, that's basically Hamilton. It all began back in Utah.

I was four years old. Started singing with the brothers, and the sound was like gold. So my folks took a leap and said, what the hey, we got to get these monsters out to California. And it keeps going and going and going. And it goes faster and faster. That's what's crazy. I was like, oh my gosh. That's why seeing all that stuff about your life,

your movie would be two parts. It would be crazy. Would you ever want that or no? A movie of myself? Like the real authentic, the dark parts too. You have to have the dark parts. You have to have, what's it called? Pathos. You have to have the dark with the bright,

with the light. The peaks with the valleys. Otherwise, it's just kind of like, you know, oh, isn't that nice? Everything's so nice. No, no, no. You've got to go down. You've got to go through hell to get to heaven. Yeah. And so it makes you a stronger person if you can prevail against the valleys.

Yeah. And go back to the peaks. Because looking at you, too, people see that, you know, you have a great marriage, you have a great family life. So people just think, oh, he just has everything, you know, he's got it all made. So I think that would be interesting to see those parts. Yeah. In fact, I don't wish upon myself any more valleys. Right. You've done enough. But they'll happen, you know, and it's just like, pick yourself up, believe in yourself and keep one step at a time, baby steps, and you will get out of that valley and you will come to a peak. It may not be the peak that you envision, but at least it's something, it's a goal to

work for. I'm going to tell you a saying that my father always told me. He said, when you set your goals, don't aim for the moon. Don't shoot for the moon. Aim for the stars. Because if you aim for the moon, you just might miss it. If you aim for the stars, you just might hit the moon. Oh, I love that so much.

Set your goals high, but set your expectations in a realistic place. So work hard, but aim up here. And at least if you're up there with your aiming, you're going to progress. Yeah. And keep believing in yourself because especially right now with social media, there's a lot of naysayers out there. You can't do this. You can't do that. Well, I'm here to say you can do it.

You can. Just one step at a time. Believe in yourself. Yeah. That's the best. I've had to my entire life. You know, right now, and I appreciate all the compliments. Donny Osmond, you're running, you're riding high, this riding this wave and everything so successful. Harris was never that way all the time.

Right. I worked really hard for this. And it's a four letter word in life. It's called work. You just have to keep working. You may not see the progress as fast as you want, but be patient as long as you take baby steps. And pretty soon you're going to look back and say, I did it. Yeah. Do you feel now that you're solidified in entertainment that you're just like, okay, I'm, do you still feel like you have to put in as much work or you're just like, okay, I put in as much work, maybe even more now than I used to. I mean, somebody asked me the other day, so did you ever imagine that at your age, 65, I can't believe I'm 65.

You look like literally 40. I'm telling you, you look the same. But they said, could you imagine that you'd be doing this at your age? I said, absolutely not. When I was 15, 16 years old, I was working my butt off, singing Puppy Love and all that kind of stuff. There's no way I'm going to be doing this at 65. I've never worked harder in my life and enjoying it more. Yeah. You were talking about, I know you haven't given me any details,

but I was like, I miss the high school reunion. You plan these fan events. You call them get together, get together, which you did the Donnie damn tour, which you were literally a tour guide at the, which is crazy. And then you said you went on the damn bus and ate the damn food. And I was the damn tour guide. I missed it. I'm so sad I missed it. I'm sad I missed the ice cream. But you were like, oh, I have another one.

It's in my head. And I was even talking with your manager. She's like, I don't even know what it is yet. So you're like planning all this stuff. It's going, the Halloween show? Yeah. Everybody's going to have to be in a costume. I'm coming out in a costume. You said your costume last night.

Can you not say it? No, I'll probably be Dracula. Great. I love that. But I can't be Dracula during the show, but I'm gonna open the show with a mask. Oh my gosh. And so everyone has to come in costume. Everybody's gotta be in costume. I love that you plan those things. That's why your fans love you. That's why I love you. Because it's like only you put in that much work and have your fans be involved with it. I think it's so cute. Because my fans have been so loyal. I mean, I've

had fans with me since the beginning and new fans. There's a sweet little girl. She was probably 11 years old. Do you know the request segment I do in the show? I love that one. Where anybody in the audience can pick any song. She's 11 years old and she's about third row back on audience right and on the aisle. And she raises her hand. I said, yes, what would you like to hear and she said life after loneliness is a song i wrote about justin bieber you know his video uh lonely yes i wrote a song called life after loneliness i love that and i thought isn't that cute her mom is kind of prompting her say this song say this right so i said sure in fact like i did with ben

last night i brought up on stage tr Trisha, she knew every lyric, every lick. She says, this is my favorite song. I listened to it every day. 11. Oh yeah. So it's amazing the demographics that are now coming to my show. Primarily what I call the puppy lovers, but younger kids are discovering my music. I was your fan of our family. It wasn't my mom, it wasn't my dad. Like I was the fan at 11 Like, I was like, I need to buy the vinyl. I need to buy this. Like, I was the fan. So I believe it for sure.

My daughter, too. She's not even one yet. And we watch Joseph all the time. And she loves it. I have a video. We'll put it in the editor or something like that. But she, like, sings along with it. She's like a singer.

She does that. I'm going to test you. I'm going to test you. OK. Oh, my gosh. Give me the colors. It was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and

rose and azure and lemon and russet and gray and purple and white and pink and orange and blue. I haven't done that in so long. I was in the children's choir like probably five times in our community theater. So I just haven't done that in so long. Do was in the children's choir probably five times in our community theater. So I just haven't done that in so long. Do you know what I did? Oh, my gosh. This new song.

We're having a party. With all the spheres. Yeah. I put the Joseph colors in the song. So these spheres are being thrown on stage red and yellow and green and brown. And the whole arena is going to be coloring. All these spheres are going to be coloring with the, all these spheres are going to be

those colors as I say them. Oh my gosh. It's crazy. When is this premiering? This is November in UK. November 27th, I think is the first date.

Are you doing O2? Is that the arena? No, we're not doing O2, I don't think. It's all on Donnie.com. Okay. Yeah.

That's where you can vote for your show too because I couldn't figure out where to vote. I was like, how do I vote for your best in Vegas awards? Donnie.com.

You're nominated for three categories. Three categories, yeah. Which is I vote for your Best in Vegas Awards? Donnie.com. You're nominated for three categories. Three categories, yeah. Which is crazy. Which is Best Headliner was one of them. Yep. Best Production. And Best Family Friendly.

Which is like, that has to win. Because it is hard to find things family friendly here. There was a two-year-old at your show last night. It's like, we should have brought Malibu with her little headphones. Exactly. You know, she would have lived for it. That's very cool. Do you know what's so cool about those awards? Last year, we won Best Production.

Do you know what an honor that is? Yeah. I mean, do you know how many shows are here in Vegas, we won Best Production. Do you know what an honor that is? Yeah. I mean, do you know how many shows are here in Vegas and we got Best Production? Oh, the production, I told you this last night too,

it was like insane compared to, we go to a ton of Vegas shows and your production value is like, it's amazing. It's like a Broadway show, concert all in one.

That's what I wanted to do. It's so good. It's so cool to hear you say that because that was my goal. It's like amazing. It's just like, I don't know, everything gives you chills.

There's just so much. It moves so quickly. Yes. You do all your hits like right away. We have so many hits so. It's like amazing. It's just like, I don't know, everything gives you chills. There's just so much. It moves so quickly. Yes. You do all your hits like right away. We have so many hits, so the whole show is hits. But it's just like right away, it's like the bangers come out. Yeah. And it just is so good.

And then it picks up. You do like a Vegas medley. And it just like is so good. It's so cool to hear you say that because when you come up with a concept for what the show is, and I did this throughout COVID because everything shut down. So Raj Kapoor and myself, we sat down and figured out, okay, the pacing of the show, what's in the show. And I thought, I want to create an arc of this show with a lot of little variations within that arc,

where people are blown away with production, but then you shut it down and just sing it with a mic and a spotlight. I mean, there's all these little nuances in the show where I just sit down at the piano and just sing a song. No production, no video, nothing. It's just the song, the lyrics, and that's it. Well, that's what gets me every time. The one that makes me cry every time is Close Every Door, and that's one where you're very, it's like silent. There's no instrument at the beginning, right?

You do a cappella. Well, there's just this violin and a cello. That's the way it starts. And you're just a smoke. It's just a dark stage. It's so... And you have to see it in person because I try to video it and it just doesn't like... It's beautiful, but it just doesn't give you that same in person.

You have to be there. See, that's the thing about concerts on television or on streaming. It's okay and it works. It's fine. But unless you're there in the atmosphere, you don't really... You can't grasp the feeling of it all. Yeah, it brings everyone to chills. It's like watching Joseph.

It brought my childhood back. You're just like, oh my gosh, this is real. This is happening. It's so beautiful. What's better than a well-marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue? A well-marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue that was carefully selected by an Instacart shopper and delivered to your door. A well-marbled ribeye you ordered without even leaving the kiddie pool. Whatever groceries your summer calls for, Instacart has you covered.

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That you're like, I like this. I like my residency. It's so cool. Somebody told me this the other day and I thought, wow, you're absolutely right. This is so amazing. There are just a handful of people that you can use one name, Sinatra, Cher, Adele, Elvis, Donnie. He said, do you realize you're on the strip using just your first name and the people know who it is? It's crazy. Do you know how're on the strip using just your first name and the people know who it is? It's crazy. Do you know how cool that is? Oh, I can't even imagine. To me, I guess, telling you, it's like a modern day Elvis.

We know Elvis from the movie, but it's like watching this in real life, like a legend. You know, I didn't want to watch that movie. It's a lot. Do you know why? No, tell me. You knew Elvis, yeah. I knew Elvis. And not that I'm putting myself on the same echelon as Elvis.

Don't get me wrong there. But I experienced those kinds of dynamics. The rejection, the huge adulation, and then the rejection, all that stuff. And so I finally brought myself, months and months after it came out, to sit down and watch it with my wife. I loved it and I hated it for those two different dynamics. Like triggered you back to something? It triggered. It really triggered because I could feel in myself

the anguish that Elvis was going through. And again, don't get me wrong. I'm not equating myself to Elvis Presley, but it's the same dynamics. You're the only one who, I mean, 1% of people could relate to Elvis in that sense, you know, because watching it, you're like, oh, I had no idea he was broke.

I had no idea he was being forced to do these shows and, you know, like just all the stuff he was going through, you know, you'd have no idea or him being called a husband. I was like, I thought he was always cool. Yes. You forget about that. Yeah. And I was like, wait, Elvis was always a husband at 20, 20 years old, 21 years old. Who called you a husband? It was the guy. It's a great, great story. I, Maybe I shouldn't mention his name. Well, you can keep it anonymous. His name is Tony. And, and I say Tony, because he was a guy that got, went to the radio stations and say, I'll break your leg. If you don't play puppy love, he was the one that got all my records, uh, on the air and being played in radio stations. It was, it was like that back

in the day. Oh yeah. It really was that way. Wow. And so I want to say his name so badly. Anyway, so he said, I went to him and said, Tony, how do I get back on the radio? He said, Donnie, you've had a great career. It's time to pack it in. Oh. You're a teeny bopper, a former teen idol, and that's what you will always be for the rest of your life. Accept it and move on.

So your biggest fan was like, stop. So I said to myself, I'm going to prove him wrong. That's when I started working hard, really, really hard. Came up with Soldier of Love. Soldier of Love became a massive hit. I went to this convention and Tony was in the other end of the room and I was on this end of the room. You know that commercial where these two people are running in slow motion in a field of wheat?

Yes. That was the moment. We locked eyes and we started running towards each other. It was like parting of the Red Sea. Everybody just parted and we grabbed each other. He looked at me. He said, you proved me wrong. Wow. That's the best. How many years in between was that, between that and Soldier of Love? And that meeting? Yeah. Four years.

Wow. Something about four years. How old were you with Soldier of Love? I was 27. So you were called a husband at 20, and then now at 27. At 27. So the majority of your 20s was like. 20s were the worst decade of my life.

Wow. Oh, yeah, because the name Donny Osmond was a joke on the street. Donny Osmond. Oh yeah, right. Okay. Former teen idol. What are you doing now? In fact, the Jeff Beck video that I did, just ambitions. In the video, the line was, because everybody had to take a number, right? And to audition for, on this video. He said, what's your name? I said, Donny Osmond. What have you been doing lately? Oh, my gosh.

But that was part of the video. That's what made the video fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that was my life. What year was that video? 87. Oh, OK, OK. Because I'm like, you're everywhere.

You're literally, you were on a magic show. What was it, like Magic with the Stars or something? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, how are you literally everywhere? yeah yeah how are you literally everywhere it's crazy the most random I love what I do that's what's amazing I really do I love getting on stage I love singing I love performing hit pause on whatever you're listening to and hit play on your next adventure stay three nights this summer at best western and get 50 off a future stay life's the trip make the most of it at Best Western. Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions. The Hot Honey McCrispy is so back at McDonald's.

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And that's where we did it. Wait, what? In Redding, Pennsylvania. And that's where we did it. Wait, what? In Redding, Pennsylvania. The director, I think, lives up there. And he said, I know a place. And he showed me pictures. I said, that's it. But this was the problem. So it was being built. There are no cars in there. Just about finished. And it was filthy. And the trick of that video was there were three Donnies, right? And after I do all this dancing stuff, it would

kick up the dust. I know I'm getting technical here, but you have to lock the camera off and then do it again as the second Donnie and then as the third Donnie. But they all have to match because if there's dust in the air, it won't match. So we had to wait. It took the longest

time. But it was so much fun. It looked so cool. I created this thing in to wait. It took the longest time. Oh, my gosh. But it was so much fun. It looked so cool. I created this thing in my mind. I told the director, he said, you're out of your mind. Was that your idea, to do the three Donnies? Okay, see, that's what you should do, then AI, too. If you have your brothers, then you have three Donnies for who?

End of conversation. Maybe you could have Donnie sitting next to you, AI, or something. You should do that. End of conversation. I love the idea of Donnie AI. Like, AI or something. You should do that. End of conversation. I love the idea of Donnie AI. Like, that's everything. Oh, yes. Absolutely.

Oh, my gosh. What you can do with that technology. I mean, it's good and bad, obviously. But what I can do with that technology is going to blow your mind. Right. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I can't wait for it.

Ah, I'm so excited. I know, because now they can make your voice sing songs that you're not even singing. Have you seen that? Oh, yeah. Like, Donnie has been singing this song or whatever. And it sounds so real. Yes. Which is crazy.

They did that with Rihanna or something. Yeah, Rihanna had one, Selena Gomez. Do you keep up with the music now? I do. You do? Absolutely. Who's your favorite? I love Charlie Puth.

I mean, everything Charlie does is just so well produced. You know, you can overproducece and it's almost to the overproduction way. Of course, Bruno. I love Bruno. I can hardly wait to hear what his next project is. But Ed Sheeran. In fact, this last album that I call Start Again, I wanted to create an album that was just nowhere near what I've done in the past because progression is the key to longevity. And so I did a lot of research and found out who did all these people write with? Don't just go to the artists because they don't have the time, but who do they write with? You remember Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran? Amy Wodge wrote that with Ed. So I called up Amy, or I met Amy and I said, I really want to

write a song with you. And it was just before COVID hit. And so she had to go back to the UK. And I'm here. And I said, let me come up with a concept. And I'll call you. I'll Zoom you. And we'll write a song. Right.

So it took about six months for me to come. I was in the bathroom one morning getting ready. OK. And Debbie's at her sink and I'm at my sink and I start singing. And Debbie says, what's that song? I said, I don't know. I'm shaving. I think I just wrote it. And she said, no, no, no, no, no. I've heard that song before. And that's the secret to a great song.

You think you've heard it, but it's never been written. So I came up, the way you love. I wrote about Debbie. The way you touch. The way you give yourself. So anyway, I Zoomed Amy Watch. I said, Amy, I think I got it. Listen to this.

The way you love. And I went through it and she said, put it on an MP3, send it to me right now. Wow. So she took it to a different level, sent it back to me. I took it to another level. She took it to another. And after about four or five zooms, we came up with a song called The Way You Are. It's one of my favorite songs on the album. It's so beautiful.

There's not enough good love songs, I feel. So many songs are about heartbreak and sadness. Yes. It's one of my favorite songs on the album. It's so beautiful. There's not enough good love songs, I feel. So many songs are about heartbreak and sadness. And that one is beautiful. I wrote a song about love songs. What's it called? And I wanted to use every silly cliche ever written. How's it go?

I love, I want you, I need you. Okay, first of all, before I give you the lyrics, I wanted to say something and then twist it to where it's like, oh my goodness. I want you, I need you. I long to be near you for now and forevermore.

Hold me in your arms so close and stay by my side every night and day. That is what I'm meant to say. He never said it. Oh my God, that's so sad.

Why didn't he say it? Well, that's what I wanted to write about. I lost the person I love because this is what I wanted to say to you, and I never said it. Oh, my gosh. It's really interesting. That's actually so sad, though. But it's a beautiful love song. Right.

It's like, I want you, I need you, and I never said it. Oh, that's like the tragedy. Yeah. That's so, oh, my gosh. I love that so much. Yeah. The song was beautiful. No, I love that you do karaoke hour, too, by the way, in your pre-show, oh my gosh. I love that so much. Yeah. The song was beautiful. And I love that you do karaoke hour too, by the way, in your pre-show.

You got a pre-show, not a meet and greet. And you do, I always see, I saw it on your TikTok. You bring fans up and they'll like sing with you and stuff like that. Do you do that every pre-show? No, it varies. Oh, because I've seen it so many times. There's not a template here. This is the pre-show area, by the way.

There's not a template. Say, okay, we do this now. We do this now. Everyone is different. Right. Depending upon what they ask and what they want. Well, the birthday song came on, and I was like, wow, did they plan this for this person? And then you did it for another person.

Oh, okay, I see. No, it's random. It's totally random. Trisha, it's your birthday. Time to celebrate and sing about who? You. I love it. You had a little video that goes with it.

I also love when you do any Dream Will Do with a fan. So I was wondering if we could do. I close my eyes. I can't sing, but I want to sing with you. Drew back the curtain to see for certain what I thought I knew far far away someone was

weeping the world was sleeping any dream will do beautiful I sang with so many Josephs at community theater and that was my favorite Joseph to sing. It's such a great song.

I was so honored to be chosen as the one for the movie because I'd done Joseph for six years. And when I got the call from Andrew Lloyd Webber, he said, you're the one I want. You're the one that I want. You're the one. You should do Grease. I think when we were talking about you being Pharaoh for Joseph, if they do it like at the Hollywood Bowl or something, when they do all the celebrity versions,

maybe they'll do, I don't know who would even be Joseph, but somebody, and then you could be the Pharaoh there. I mean, you should be Joseph, honestly. One of the coolest moments in my mind was when I did Joseph with two other Josephs at the Wembley Stadium in London. It was for Princess Di, a memorial for Princess Di. Everybody and their dog was there. I mean, it was the show of all shows.

I can't remember how many people, of course, how many people were watching, streaming or whatever. And just hundreds, maybe millions of people were watching this. Wow. And we sang that song, and everybody was singing along with us. It was such a moment. That show is just so wholesome and pure, and everyone loves that one. It is. It's so good.

It takes you back to an innocent time. Yeah. But seriously, in comparison to Joseph, this show is my favorite show of yours. I think everyone should come here and hear us. Next year, are you adding anything new to the show? Because I come every year, so I'm like, what's new? What can we see next year? Well, there are three things in the back of my mind.

The sphere. The sphere and the thing we won't talk about. And also I want to change up. You'll see. Because it's so good. Every time there's something new, there's always something added. And I was just like, oh, we have to keep coming back. And that's what people do.

Well, that's what I love to do. You have to keep recreating things. and so it keeps it new and fresh. Not just for the audience, but for us as well. Yeah. And that's why I love the request segment because the show is different every night. Oh my gosh. But how does your band know how to play it? How do they know every single song?

How do you know every single song still? I don't. Sometimes people will request a song. I don't remember recording it and let alone remembering the lyrics. Yeah. So then you're like, what do you do in that situation? I guess it comes back to you. I just sit and listen.

You're like, just enjoy. Yeah, just, oh, I can't remember this one. And you sing to all, like we're doing that. You sing to all the fans that request it. You're so sweet with the little boy with Ben. And then women who are like, I'm 70 years old. And she's like, one of the ladies said she was going to marry you last night. She's like, I'm in eighth grade.

I was going to marry you. You're like, well. Yeah, I get those every once in a while. My wife was in the audience that night. She was. Yeah. We were sitting right next to her. Oh, were you?

God, she is such a champ. I don't know if I could do it. I'd be like, even if I know, you're obviously. Do you want to hear a funny story? Tell me. So she dated my brother first. What? Yes.

My brother, Jay. Which one? Jay. The next older than me. So we went on a double date to an Elton John concert. I was dating a girl by the name of Tammy, who I was madly in love with. And Jay took out Debbie, my wife. And I remember when Elton sat down, it's a little bit funny.

Singing this song. This feeling inside. I remember looking over at my brother's date, thinking to myself, I'm going to marry that girl someday. No way. Poor Tammy. Well, sweetly, sweetly. Is she okay? Yeah, she's fine. Okay. Oh, wow. So way. Poor Tammy. Well, sweetly, sweetly. Is she okay? Yeah, she's fine.

Okay. Yeah. Oh, wow. So you knew right away. I knew right away. It was 78 you married. She was 15. I was 16.

Oh my God. Wait, how old were you when you got married? I was 20. She was 19. We dated three and a half years. Wow. Secretly. Why?

Oh, because you didn't want people to know. I didn't want people to know. Yeah. And now they just seem to just don't care. They know you're happily married and these women still are like, Donnie, I love you. Yeah. It's, it's, it's kind of funny, but yeah. No, it's so sweet. Cause you guys got married in 1978. That was when, was it, did you go on coconuts that year? That's how I introduced everybody to Debbie. Yeah. And if you ever, if you've never seen the movie going coconuts, don't.

No, it's so good. Oh, Tricia. No, you're, I love you. I live for your movies, like the acting movies. I love them. It's the worst movie ever made. Really? I have the VHS. I love it so much. Go watch it. You can destroy it. Wait, why don't you like it? Well, the acting is just awful. The storyline is even worse than my acting. It was so good.

Honestly, you could do anything and it sells. It's just so good, everything you do. I'm super excited. Thank you so much for having me here. This been fun i mean i'm like in shock right now i don't know and i want to congratulate you for the success of of of your industry i mean how many millions of people listen to you every day i know got lucky it's again i'm kind of in my wave era of high now right now too but like you said there's values there's peaks i kind of just ride with whatever it is just write it this is the peak of peaks, if I'm being completely honest. And I mean that so sincerely. I cried when they're like, it might happen to this. And then when we're

here and then last night, I just been crying nonstop. So I'm like, I got to hold it together. So this morning I was like, let me just sit in silence. And it's a huge responsibility that you have. Don't isn't it? I mean, so many people follow you. Yeah. And, uh, and I know you, you take that seriously. And being a mom now, too. And being a mom. I had to change so much. Yes. Because I have my past, too, that I haven't always been proud of.

So just trying to rechange that and rebrand. But you know, everybody makes mistakes in life. I've made a lot of mistakes in life. You just rise above it. Let it go. Move on. Let it go. Let it go.

I think you should do another one. One of my favorite albums, even though it's all covers, is This Is The Moment, because I'm such a Broadway This is the moment I was singing it this morning When all I've done It's such a cool song I love that one

That whole album All your duets you did With like Vanessa Willey All that stuff Rosie I was like Yes The Rosie Redemption

I followed that so much I remember Rosie I remember when you were on I was like Oh my god I just like She loved you Great lady

Everyone loves you But anyways Alright Go see Oh we have to tell them Your show So nominated for three Best of Las Vegas I was like, oh my God, I just like, she loved you. Great lady. Everyone loves you. But anyways, all right. Go see, oh, we have to tell them your show. So nominated for three Best of Las Vegas. Yes. Best Headliner, Best Production. Best Production.

And Best Family Friendly Show. That's right. You can vote at Donnie.com. You can vote once a day, but like you said, you can have other emails or other friends. Exactly, yeah. You know, nudge people, whatever. I'm voting every day. You're going to win.

When I was on Dancing with the Stars, some people tell me, we got the whole office to vote and got all my kids to vote. Yeah, you have to really push because Dancing with the Stars. Hardest thing I've ever done in my life, but I got the Mirabelle trophy. I got it. Yeah, because I feel like Masked Singer, honestly, you should have won. You tied on Magic with the Stars. I'm like, Fear Factor.

You were great at Fear Factor. Well, do you want to hear the rights? Do you want to hear the inside scoop on Fear Factor? Yes, I would love to. Okay, Coolio, may you want to hear the right, do you want to hear the insight scoop on fear factor? Yes, I would love to. Okay. Coolio, may he rest in peace, he won. But it was one of the final competitions. We were like, I don't know how high off the ground on this circular scaffolding. And we had a safety cable in case we fell, which I did.

But you had to run around this scaffolding as fast as you can. Well, I was light years ahead of everybody else, right? And the reason I fell is because the safety cable pulled me off. It couldn't keep up with my speed. No. Yeah. They knew, obviously. Yes.

But what are you going to do? It's a game. It's fine. But you always win And you're in such a shame Now you can do it again You're in like the best game Yeah but the safety cable

They got to fix the safety cable Yeah they have to keep You pulled me off Oh my god You were too fast I was too fast Oh my god But you were like

Even back then You must have been in your What 40s when you did it Uh huh Something like that Yeah you're in amazing shape Watching you dance stuff like that I'm just like I could never

I could never It's amazing But all the things you do, I don't know. I just, it's so great. I appreciate it. Thank you. And I just love everything about you, your energy, everything. This is ultimately, there's no peak.

My husband, anyone can tell you that there's no peak greater than this ever in my whole entire life. I mean that so sincerely. It was just like the best day of my life. That's very kind of you. Thank you. And thank you for being so kind always. Thanks. Good to see you.

Thank you. Donny Osmond, everyone.