My father and uncle are politicians in Pennsylvania, so I know they’ll be proud to hear that I’m running a campaign… to get Donny Osmond on Dancing with the Stars. Why, after 31 years, do I heed the family call to public service? Because last night, I watched The Best of Donny & Marie: Volume 1 DVD (in stores Nov. 7, but already on EW’s giveaway table last week!), and I finally have an issue I feel strongly about: Watching Donny do the rhumba would be hot.
Trust me, the man has it in him. (I’m talking about a fun, flirtacious Emmitt Smith-style rhumba here, by the way, not a faux-sexual Joey Lawrence one.) You’ll be a believer, too, after seeing these two hours of highlights, handpicked by Donny, from the late ’70s variety show. The guy has the moves (even on ice skates or stilts); the tolerance for bad stage clothes (at one point, he’s wearing a suit covered in peacock feathers); and the willingness to be around lesser stars (Joey Travolta costars in a Grease parody, where they sing about "sludge"). Sign him up, ABC! He’s also charming when he screws up (Charo can’t stop giggling when he has to go backstage to fetch a prop during their funeral sketch), and he can keep it together through a wardrobe malfunction (in this case, Marie’s).
Who’s with me?
I am loving Marie’s dress in that picture, especially the red!
As for Donny being on DWTS, I think it’s a good suggestion! Maybe his partner could be Valerie Cherish?
Did you see Donny busting his White & Nerdy groove in the new Weird Al video? He’d be hilarious on DWTS.
And they called it, puppy love…and yowza did I have a HUGE crush on Donny when I was kid!!!
I’d love to see Donny on DWTS! Seems like such a great guy, always smiling, grew up on TV, yet still sane and relatively low-profile. It would be SO CUTE to see his lookalike sons in the audience cheering him on.
If Donny was on I would watch every single delicious moment!
OH MY GOSH!!! Donny Osmond was my first crush–I was gonna marry him (I was about 7 years old at the time). To this day, purple is still my favorite color.
I would love to see him next season–he’s still as handsome as ever!
Yea, I’m surprised Mandi didn’t mention his hilarious and pretty good dance turn in Weird Al’s White and Nerdy video. He’s good! Get him on there. I just saw him on the street in nyc last month and he was getting mobbed! Dude’s still got it.
Don was so excellent in the WHITE & NERDY video that I didn’t even know it was him. Once I figured that out, I couldn’t stop watching him.
He has certainly embraced his inner kitsch, and the man has no shame in flaunting it. And that, by itself, makes him cool.
When I was a teenager, I had huge crushes on Donny Osmond and David Cassidy. They are older than my high school sweetheart, but today they look so much younger. Heh!
Get Michelle Kwan on DWTS. She’ll be the country to Donnie’s rock’n'roll.
That would rock to have Donny on DWTS!! I also had a huge crush on him and saw him at the Minnesota State Fair when I was a kid. And yes, purple is still my favorite color. I have watched White & Nerdy so many times just to see his HILARIOUS nerd dance with Al…brilliant!
That picture…they were like the White Stripes of the 70s, huh? Brother, sister, husband and wife? Who knows? It’s a mystery!
In some attempt at bizarre sweeps stunt casting, Donny Osmond appeared on ‘All My Children’ today. The guy has barely aged. Scary.
For all us gals that went through our teeny-bopper crushes on Donny, it’s a bit disconcerting to know that he is now a grandfather. Boy do I feel old!
I think Donny would be a great addition to the next installment of DWTS. I’d vote for hime!
I loved Donny in the Weird Al video. Give the man his props!
I so would watch AND vote if Donny were on DWTS. How can we make this happen?