Awestruck fans don't try to tear his shirt off anymore, though middle-aged teeny boppers still swoon in his presence.
He doesn't need to sneak in and out of concert venues in a bread truck like he and his brothers did during the Osmondmania days. But Donny Osmond continues to make music in the recording studio and on stage.
"That's my future," he says, adding he'll make records "as long as they keep asking for them."
Osmond, 46, just finished work on his 54th album — solo and with siblings — in a career that spans 41 years since his debut on "The Andy Williams Show" in 1963.
During that time Osmond has sampled a little of everything in show business — toured as a teen idol, did a TV variety show with sister Marie, flopped and succeeded in musical theater, worked with British rockers Boy George and Peter Gabriel, duked it out on a celebrity boxing show, appeared on shock-jock Howard Stern's show, hosted a daytime talk show with Marie, did a Super Bowl ad with Ozzy Osbourne.
And now he's a game show host.
Through it all, he continued to sing.
Osmond recently released a single in the United Kingdom, where he will play several castles as part of an outdoor concert series this summer. He plans to hit the road in the United States next year to push the single and his new pop and R&B album, for which he co-wrote the songs, a first for him.
"The days of the '70s are over. You just enjoy the career that you have. Keep the integrity. Don't worry about trends and fads and just stick to what you know is good and pursue it," he said.
Osmond moved to Provo's upscale Riverbottoms in 1997, where he also dabbles in real estate. He commutes to Los Angeles to host the TV game show "Pyramid."
"I love living here because it's a young town, it's constantly growing and moving," he said. His only criticism is the lack of a major airport. "I know that I-15 really well. I just love the construction that's going on right now."
Working in an industry where what's "in" lasts as long as a Britney Spears marriage, Osmond has managed to roll with the tide.
"I think if you're going to be in show business, you have to be prepared to work really hard. It's one thing to build a career, but it's a whole other thing to maintain a career because, rest assured, if you're going to ride this roller coaster, you're going to go up and down a lot. If you can weather the storms during the valleys, the peaks feel real good," he said.
Like the Osmonds, their one-time rivals the Jacksons know the highs and lows of fame. Though the families diverged professionally and personally, Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson remain friends.
They chat on the telephone every now and again.
"Mike and I have so much fun talking about the past," Osmond said, adding he didn't want to get into the child molestation charges against Jackson.
"Yes, our lives have taken completely different directions. It's unfortunate. But people have to live with the decisions they make. It's kind of nice to be able to be a sounding board for him."
Osmond, too, knows what can come from bad decisions. He and his brothers and sister lost millions in the 1980s, largely because of poor management.
But they also could have lost each other.
"Everybody had visions of grandeur, and they didn't ask us. Maybe some of us also had visions of grandeur and needed to be a little more conservative," he said. "But all's well that ends well. We came out of it united. There wasn't any wedge. There were some difficult times, but blood's thicker than water."
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