Donny Osmond Headed to 'Dancing With The Stars'

ABC has not yet officially announced the contestants for the next season of 'Dancing With the Stars', but star Donny Osmond revealed the news while taping 'The Bonnie Hunt Show'. ABC recently announced that the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars will premiere on March 9 with a live, two-hour special.

When asked by Bonnie if he would ever strut his moves on the dance floor, Donny smiled and said, "Well, I guess I am making an announcement. I'll say I am seriously considering doing it, let's put it that way. I guess I just let the cat out of the bag!"

Donny said Marie, who competed on the fifth season of "Dancing" and also appeared on the Monday taping of the talk show, wasn't going to be the only Osmond in the "Dancing" spotlight.

"I can't let my sister upstage me. Besides, who do you think taught her how to dance?" he joked.

"That's not fair!" Marie said. "The men do half the work."

"That's why I'm doing it, baby," Donny replied.

"It is going to be very difficult because I am going to be doing [the Osmonds' Las Vegas show] on top of doing ‘Dancing with the Stars.'"

Beginning his illustrious career at the age of five on The Andy Williams Show performing with The Osmond Brothers, Donny has been awarded a grand total of 33 gold records. His most recent album (his 55th), "Love Songs of the 70s" immediately went Gold in the UK. His multi-faceted career includes being a national television host ("Pyramid"), a best-selling author (his autobiography debuted at #1 on the UK bestseller list) and the theater (over 2,000 performances starring in Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and most recently on Broadway starring in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast").

He recently co-starred with Martin Lawrence and Raven Symone in the Disney film "College Road Trip", and performed at The Concert for Diana, seen worldwide by 2 billion viewers. He has even been a champion race car driver. Reflecting his multi-generational worldwide fan base, his web site, donny.com, receives a staggering 120 million plus hits annually. Donny and Debbie, his wife of 29 years, have 5 children and 2 grandchildren.

 

 

Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi

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