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Donny Osmond Shares Michael Jackson’s One Bit Of Brutal Career Advice


Donny Osmond has shared the brutal career advice Michael Jackson gave him.

In his seventh decade, Donny Osmond has a nightly show on the Las Vegas strip and is about to return to the UK stage for a turn in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Bible-inspired musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. This would all come as a surprise to his childhood friend and fellow superstar Michael Jackson, whom Osmond remembers giving him some stark advice when his career hit the pits in the 1980s. Still going strong, he reflected his advice to any wannabe young star would be: “Don’t believe your own hype; take the trash out; do your own laundry.

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