around the world. and particularly in britain. the jackson five. they were amazing, weren t they? tito, jermaine, michael the osmonds. oh, the osmonds. okay. the other ones. every girl i ve got my eye on age, i don t know, 9 or 10, didn t want to know because she had donny bloody osmond on her wall. yeah, that s my middle name. donny bloody osmond. everywhere i went and they called it puppy love you do that very well. well, i had to. every girl i went out with used to sing it. so you kind of dominated my early life and ruined it. thank you. i meant to do that. it was a phenomenon. it was a crazy time in my life, piers. ? the osmonds were just i remember you arriving at heathrow airport to be met by tens of thousands of screaming people. do you remember when the balconies collapsed from the weight? yes, i do. i saw that happen. i mean, what can you remember much about that?
my garage, a box with my original wedding dress. piers, i didn t even know i had it still. and so i took it down and i was having it, you know, dry-cleaned and whatever, put away again because it had been opened. well, immediately i start crying because this dress was a mess, the one i designed, and the lady who was helping me, she goes, where s that dress? i said it s at the dry cleaners. so we called them up and said, have you started cleaning it yet? they said no, we haven t. i said i need it back. and i put it on and it fit. yeah. it s crazy. so you re the same size exactly as you were 26, 27 years ago? i had to let it out just a tiny bit right across my upper back. and, you know, just like that much. there are women all over america going, i wish i could get into my dress it was a waist cinch belt. i was so happy. what did you think, donny, when you saw her in that dress again? it was beautiful. i have a picture up in my dressing room that they gave me the picture.
is it all just a weird daze? i do. but what s really interesting, piers, i ve had obviously many years to reflect upon that and figure out what those feelings were really like. when i look at those pictures and the footage and everything, it s almost like i m looking at a different person. it was a different life. i ve gone through so many different incarnations with my life. i look back at the andy williams days. and we ve gone through this in years past. the puppy love days, the donny and marie days, the joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat days. let me ask you a hard question, donny, because you became one of the most famous people on the planet. the osmonds remain along with the jacksons the most famous show business family in the world. and yet it s taken a heavy toll on the family, on all of you, in various ways. if i could because you had no choice, really. you were thrust through that door at a very young age. if i could take you back to the door marked fame and
turning on your privacy pyramid. hark. wise is the maiden who keeps a crackling fire on such a frosty day. sir, you cannot imagine how glad i am to see you. hmm. i smell smoke. donny and marie, we re talking about vegas, and it s great to be there. and it s all very exciting. the most exciting thing to happen in vegas is you got married. that s the most exciting thing? well, because you got married to a guy you married before. it was the most exciting thing for me that i ve done in my life. tell me, how did this happen? well you got married how long ago? it s been 29 years. 29 years ago. see, i ll forever be 29. 29 years ago you marry this guy, and the marriage only lasts three years? uh-huh. and you get divorced.
at that age can really bite you in the shorts. the proverbial shorts. what would you say to him? you ve do the chance now. if i was justin bieber, what would you say? put the seat belt on, buddy, because it s going to be a bumpy ride and there s going to be times where people will say you re not talented anymore. never give up on yourself. you know, my wife was the only person on this planet that i could turn to and say am i going to be able to be a star again? and she said yes, you can do it. despite everybody saying no, it s over with. everybody said it was over with. when i was 20, 21 years old, i d just gotten married. you know, put yourself in my wife s shoes. all these fans all across the world would have donny osmond burning record-burning parties. they would put my albums and burn them. and i remember girls having donny osmond wife burning parties. yeah. she was the most like linda mccartney. if anybody could write a book, my wife would. but she s not that kind