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Nov 30
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Marie Osmond had so much plastic surgery she looks like one of those dolls she sells


If you hadn’t read the title and were just looking at the photo above, would you even know that was Marie Osmond? I wouldn’t. She looks like a totally different person. This is sad to me because Marie has gone through so much after her 18 year-old son committing suicide in early 2010. She did remarry her first husband in the spring of this year and seems to have some happiness in her life lately. She probably just wanted to freshen up her face a little bit and ended up looking like this.

For comparison, here’s what Marie looked like in June. She’s still totally fake and plastic-looking, but she hadn’t quite stepped over the line to freakish territory at that point. I think it’s the new lips (above) that put her over the edge.

Radar points out how different Marie looks now, and they interviewed a plastic surgeon speculating on what she’s had done. They also dug up some laughable quotes from her in which she’ll only cop to having skin resurfacing and using sunscreen. She’s had a whole facelift probably and it’s clear she’s injecting too much crap into her face now.

Marie Osmond’s ever-changing face has repeatedly sparked speculation that the entertainer has had plastic surgery, and her new super-tight look is adding fuel to the rumors.

When the 52-year-old former Dancing with the Stars contestant appeared at the 80th Anniversary of the Hollywood Christmas Parade on Sunday, she appeared more doll-like than the toys being donated for the holidays by the ‘Marine Toys For Tots’ charity she was supporting.

“Marie appears to have undergone a startling transformation,” celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn (who has not treated the star) told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview.

“Her eyebrows are excessively arched, likely from Botox injections. Her lips resemble the classic ‘trout pout’ where the upper lip is excessively plumped in comparison to the lower lip,” he explained, adding that it may be from Juviderm injections.

When recently asked by Prevention magazine how she felt about plastic surgery, Marie coyly answered: “We cherish youth more than we do wisdom. Will I do it? I’m sure. Nobody wants to have a saggy jowl. Is it bad to do? I don’t think anything is bad if it makes you feel better.”

“I’ve had a HydraFacial, which is a non-laser skin resurfacing. I had a second procedure, which was done with infrared light; it tightens the skin and stimulates collagen to make your face look more toned. And I use a lot of sunscreen.”

However, our plastic surgery expert thinks her transformation is caused by something more aggressive than lasers, facials and sunscreen.

“The skin of her lower eyelids is smooth and wrinkle-free, possibly due to a lower eyelid lift, and her nasolabial folds (wrinkles from the sides of the nose to the corners of the mouth) are blunted, likely due to injections of Restylane,” revealed Dr. Youn.

“Finally, the skin of her face is pristine – it’s as smooth as a marble counter-top! I suspect she’s undergone laser treatments, such as the new Syneron eTwo laser,” he concluded.

[From Radar]

I’ve said it countless times: there’s nothing wrong with getting some light work done. Just know when to stop! Don’t keep getting injections and don’t keep fixing stuff that doesn’t need to be fixed. I’m 38 and I’m thinking of doing a few things. It’s hard to accept that you’re getting older and you no longer look like the image of yourself that you have in your head. It’s just creepy and tragic when people end up looking like cartoon characters instead of humans, though. I hope that this settles for Marie and that she realizes it’s time to stop.

On October 29, 2011:

Here she is now:

photo credit: WENN and Fame

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May 5
'11
Marie Osmond remarries her first husband 26 years after they divorced

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When I heard that Marie Osmond, 51, was remarrying her husband, I thought it was the guy she was last divorced from, Brian Blosil. It turns out Blosil was her second husband and Marie had reunited with her first husband, Stephen Craig, 54, whom she divorced in 1985 after being married to for just three years. Marie has a son with Stephen who is 28 and also named Stephen. Marie wore the same dress to her wedding in Las Vegas this week that she wore back in 1982 for their first wedding. She originally planned to wear a new dress, but told Entertainment Tonight that once she saw the dress that was custom-designed for her she realized “it was not right” and was in tears. Marie explained that she just happened across her old wedding gown five days before the wedding when she was cleaning out her garage.

Nearly 30 years after their 1982 marriage and subsequent divorce three years later, Marie Osmond and former basketball player Stephen Craig got married for a second time Wednesday in Las Vegas, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.

“I am so happy and look forward to sharing my life with Stephen, who is an amazing man as well as a great father to my children,” says Osmond, 51, who has a son, Stephen, 28, with Craig, 54.

The couple were married in a private ceremony at the Las Vegas Mormon Temple and celebrating at a reception at their Nevada home.

Osmond wore the same wedding dress, designed by Ret Turner, that she wore at the couple’s first wedding.

Wednesday’s wedding date is significant to Osmond and Craig as it marks the birthdays of both Marie’s late son Michael and late mother Olive. “It was important that both Michael and my mom were with us on this special day,” says Osmond.

Craig is a former professional basketball player and travels the country as a motivational speaker. Osmond is currently performing, with her brother Donny, on stage at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, and just this week released Donny & Marie, their first studio album together in 30 years.

“These two people are right for each other,” Donny tells ET. “My sister is so happy.”

[From People]

The Enquirer has run quite a few stories about Marie, but I haven’t paid much attention to them. Looking over past issues, there was a November cover story last year (image below) about how her second husband, Brian Blosil, abused her physically and emotionally and was suspected of molesting one of their children. It sounded like a nightmare. Marie and Brian had seven children together, including a biological son and daughter and five adopted children. Marie’s 18 year-old adopted son, Michael, committed suicide last February, 2010, by jumping from his apartment building in Los Angeles.

So Marie really deserved some happiness in her life after everything she’s gone through and it’s nice to hear that she’s found it with her first husband. According to the Enquirer, Marie and Stephen hit a rough patch back in February of this year and called off their wedding for a while. They’ve obviously worked it out, though and were ready to make it official again. Congratulations to Marie and Stephen! Do you think that the decorations at the reception included any of her dolls? She has a bridal one that would go nicely with the theme.

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This cover is about Marie’s second husband, not the guy she just remarried. It’s from November, 2010:
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Mar 11
'10
Roseanne Barr sorry for linking Osmond’s Mormonism w/ her son’s suicide

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Leave it to Roseanne Barr to offend a family after a tragedy. The acerbic 57 year-old comedianne blogged two days after Marie Osmond’s son committed suicide that he was gay and that his depression was due to his family’s involvement in the Mormon church, which teaches that homosexuality is a choice and that sex outside a male-female marriage is wrong. Barr wrote:

“Marie Osmond’s poor gay son killed himself. He had been told how wrong and how sick he was every day of his life by his church and the people in it. Calling that ‘depression’ is a lie!”

“Yet the Osmonds still talk lovingly about their church, saying nothing about it’s extremely anti-gay crusade. Marie also has a gay daughter! Hey I want her and all the gay kids in the world to know that they are just fine being gay and that they deserve love and respect instead of insults and rebuke! I have gay people in my family and my circle of friends and I am kicking bigot a** and taking names!”

[via Starpulse]

Now, Barr could be correct in that 18 year-old Michael Bryan was having issues with his identity because of the religion with which he was raised. The thing is, we don’t know if Bryan was gay or not and his friend to whom he addressed his suicide note claims she’s 100% certain that he was not. Barr brings up a good point, that many religions, particularly Mormonism, make young gay people feel inadequate and can contribute to suicide among gay people who have been taught that the way they are is somehow wrong or their fault. She shouldn’t have attached that message to such a recent tragedy though, and Barr realizes this. She penned a long apology that is more carefully written that her usual stream of consciousness style. Here’s part of what she wrote:

I saw on the front page of a tabloid that he had killed himself because he could not handle being gay, and I wrote about how angry that made me, after seeing it hundreds of times, growing up as I did in Utah. I don’t know the Osmonds, but was always offended at their constant defense of the indefensible things that their church does, the way it promotes hatred and racism and sexism, tax free.

I have known so many gay people who killed themselves, or suffered and that is why I put myself on the line to bring TV’s first gay characters to America. I never intended for my comments to be picked up and broadcast on sleazy gossip TV shows, or on other blogs. That was done without my consent or knowledge.

I always intended that my remarks are directed to Power, and always on behalf of its victims. I am sorry to have hurt Marie Osmond, who is the most open minded person in her whole family. I really apologize to her. I thought about waiting to say what I had to say, but then I thought that perhaps there was no better time to add to the conversations in America about homophobia.

Alot of people know they are gay at age three, and I just feel that is why parents should keep little ones away from organizations that tell them from an early age that they are sick and going to hell and not worth the love of God. That is so vile, and a large part of the reason that I never sent my own kids to any synagogue or other religious place ever. You never know if your kids are gay, and aside from that, why would you want to take any of them to a place to learn about God, that teaches hate?

I really encourage parents to stop destroying their children by doing that. It is not good family values. Being gay is not a choice. I didn’t choose to be straight anymore than my siblings chose to be gay, or we chose to be born Jews in SLC, where we were all tormented daily by hateful Mormon neighbors (not all of them were hateful, but too many were).
Anyway, I apologize again for having added to another mother’s pain, and have asked myself if I should have said nothing at all, or waited a while to say what I said. I really don’t know. I think it’s good to get people talking about being more aware of what we accept, and i know that my comments got people talking.

[From Roseanne Barr's blog]

I agree with Roseanne that we need to bring light to the fact that these churches are preaching intolerance. The Mormon church funded 50-75% of the campaign for Prop8 that ultimately banned same sex marriage in California. What good is it to deny families legal rights that should be guaranteed them? Still, Roseanne was wrong to bring Marie Osmond’s terrible loss into it, and she realizes that. Her apology seemed sincere to me. Reading the rest of her blog kind of bummed me out, though. I’m liberal but I try to keep my head up and not get too depressed about the way the country, and the world, is headed. (It helps a lot that I have a job and health insurance that I don’t pay for out of pocket. I’ve done that and it was a fortune.) Barr isn’t looking on the bright side at all, though, and it’s all bad to her. I doubt that much would be different under Hilary as she claims, but we’ll never know.

Marie Osmond performs at the Flamino Hotel, making her Vegas comeback with brother Donny Osmond, just one day after the funeral of her 18-year-old son Michael Bryan

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Mar 1
'10
Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son Michael committed suicide

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Friday evening, Marie Osmond’s son Michael Blosil committed suicide in Los Angeles. There’s a lot of information coming out about this, and some of it is slightly contradictory, but the facts seem to be as these: 18-year-old Michael had a history of depression and had been in rehab once, when he was 16 years old; he was adopted, and one of Marie’s eight children with her ex-husband Brian Blosil; Michael left a suicide note; he threw himself off an eight-story building; he was a student at the Fashion Institute in Los Angeles. On Saturday, Michael’s uncle Donny Osmond confirmed Michael’s suicide and simply said: “Please pray for my sister and her family.” Marie Osmond released this statement Sunday: “My family and I are devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our privacy during this difficult time.” Here’s more from People Magazine:

Marie Osmond’s teenaged son, Michael Blosil, has killed himself by leaping to his death around 9 p.m. Friday in Los Angeles, reports Entertainment Tonight, which quotes Marie’s brother, Donny Osmond, as saying, “Please pray for my sister and her family.”

Through her rep, Marie Osmond released a statement Saturday. It says, “My family and I are devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our privacy during this difficult time.”

According to ET, Michael left a note explaining he intended to end his life after a lengthy battle with severe depression that left him, he said, feeling as if he had no friends and could never fit in.

In 2007, Michael, then 16, entered a rehab facility. His mother said at the time, “My son Michael is an amazing young man, shown through his courage in facing his issues. As his mother, I couldn’t be more proud of him.”

The reason for the visit to rehab was never disclosed. Michael is one of eight children Osmond has raised with ex-husband Brian Blosil.

By March 2009, Marie told PEOPLE that Michael seemed to be turning his life around. He was finishing up his last year of high school while living with his mom in Las Vegas, where she and Donny headline a show.

“I couldn’t be more proud of him,” Marie said at the time. “He’s got a 3.9 GPA in high school. He’s looking at scholarships to some wonderful colleges.”

A rep for Donny and Marie Osmond confirmed to PEOPLE that the show at the Flamingo Hotel was canceled Saturday night. It is being determined how long the hiatus will remain in effect.

Marie Osmond, one of nine Utah-bred Osmond siblings, began performing with her brothers at age 3. She has been outspoken about the trials of her own life in the spotlight.

In her 2001 memoir Behind the Smile, she detailed her battle with postpartum depression following the birth of her son Matthew. She also revealed that she had been sexually abused as a child.

She did not identify her abusers but said they were not family members.

In 2006, Marie’s rep denied that the singer had tried to commit suicide, attributing reports about Osmond to the postpartum she suffered.

[From People]

I can’t even imagine how difficult it is for Marie and for the whole Osmond-Blosil family, and obviously, my thoughts and prayers are with them. Marie seems like she’s a really great mom, and last year she even came out publicly in support of her gay daughter, and gay rights and gay marriage in general – which was a contradiction of the Mormon church’s teachings. So, basically, Marie is the kind of mom who puts her kids before any prejudice.

With that in mind, I do have one minor question about this situation, and it’s really only about my own curiosity, and not in any way to disrespect the Osmond family at all. If Michael had been severely depressed for so long – which I believe – the only minor question I have is about any potential prescription medication he may have been on? It seems strange to me that a kid who is so depressed wouldn’t have been on something to help ease his depression chemically. Now, it’s perfectly possible he was on something for his depression, and it simply didn’t work, or it made the depression worse, which happens in some patients. But still, don’t you wonder? Wasn’t this kid taking anything?

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Marie Osmond in Las Vegas on December 12, 2009. Credit: WENN.

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May 21
'09
Mormon Marie Osmond with more words of support for her awesome gay daughter

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Marie Osmond is still being awesome, just giving interview after interview about how cool she is with her Mormon faith and how it doesn’t interfere with her loving and adoring her gay daughter. As we reported earlier this month, Marie Osmond came under some criticism when it was revealed that she had a gay daughter, and some media sources proclaimed that because of Marie’s Mormon faith, she was ashamed of her daughter. Marie quickly responded, giving an interview to an LA radio station and coming out not only in support of her daughter, but for gay civil rights in general, including the right to marry.

Marie’s most recent interview is from Entertainment Tonight (story via OK! Magazine), and Marie has even more to say about her gay daughter Jessica. Marie’s basic argument for loving her daughter seems to be “So what if she’s gay?” I’ve never really been a fan of Marie Osmond, but her eloquence and nonchalant support for her daughter has made me an Osmond convert:

If you expect Mormon Marie Osmond to be anything but supportive of her daughter Jessica, who is a lesbian, you’d be wrong. The entertainer and mother of eight says she’s totally supportive of her eldest child.

“I love my daughter! She’s my baby girl, come on,” she tells Entertainment Tonight. “So what if she’s gay? She’s my daughter and she’s an amazing woman and a good kid. I raised her, she better be good.”

Marie adds that her religion is no impediment when it comes to loving her children, no matter their sexual orientation.

“I think it’s sad when we have to separate something from society. Whether it’s, ‘Oh you’re Jewish,’ and then it was ‘Oh you’re a Mormon,’ or ‘Oh you’re gay.’ I love real people,” she explains. “A lot of women out there have gay children. Who cares? I want love. I’m a Christian and Christ loved everybody.”

Preach it, Marie!

[From OK! Magazine]

As previous articles about Marie Osmond have pointed out, she puts her time where her mouth is. She and brother Donnie appeared in pro-gay marriage posters after the passage of Proposition 8 in California, publicly breaking with the Church of Latter-Day Saints and winning a lot of love from gay activists. But I bet the best part for Marie is that her daughter knows she’s got her mother’s full support.

Marie Osmond is shown promoting her “Race for the Cure” doll to benefit breast cancer on 5/2/09 in Las Vegas. Credit: PRPhotos

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May 6
'09
Mormon Marie Osmond defends her gay daughter’s right to marry

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Marie Osmond is a great mom. I’m sorry, but I just came to that realization after reading this article. Marie is a devout Mormon, having been born into and married in the Mormon faith. She has eight children by her two ex-husbands. Three of her kids are biological, five adopted. A few weeks ago, some tabloids began reporting that Marie’s 21-year-old daughter Jessica was a lesbian, and that Marie was ashamed of her.

Marie stood up for her daughter, though. In an interview with the radio station KOST 103.5 in Los Angeles, Marie confirmed that Jessica is a lesbian, and that Jessica is entitled to every civil right that a straight person is entitled to. Marie laughed off the idea that her daughter’s homosexuality was “a sensitive topic” because of Marie’s Mormon faith, and basically said that her faith was her own, but she doesn’t think that faith should be used to block anyone’s civil rights. Marie’s comments are actually a little funny – she tries to quote the Bible, I think, but comes out with “God said to be married and be productive with your children and, you know, replenish the earth or whatever.” I love that – “or whatever”.

In an interview with Los Angeles radio station KOST 103.5, Marie Osmond confirmed rumors that her daughter Jessica is a lesbian and spoke about her views on marriage equality.

Though the interviewer suggested the question might be “a sensitive topic” because of Osmond’s Mormon faith, the entertainer didn’t hold back.

“That’s not a sensitive topic, I love my daughter,” said Osmond with a laugh.

Last week, the U.K. publication The Sun suggested all may not be well between Osmond and her daughter. But Osmond went on to say that though the Mormon Church may not agree with homosexuality, she isn’t imposing those beliefs on her children.

“You know, on those types of things I’m very supportive. When it comes to marriage, I think that civil rights need to be for all,” Osmond said. “When you start mixing religion into that and beliefs, you know, I do believe in the Bible. My daughter understands my beliefs. And, you know, God said to be married and be productive with your children and, you know, replenish the earth or whatever. She understands those things. My daughter is sharp. And we have a great relationship and I think she would tell you that.”

In the weeks following the passage of Prop. 8 in California, Marie Osmond and her brother Donny became easy targets for some gay activists as high-profile members of the Mormon Church, which was responsible for raising a substantial amount of money in passing the same-sex marriage ban, but the brother-sister act responded by appearing on posters condemning the church.

[From The Advocate]

Doesn’t Marie seem pretty cool? She’s all “It’s my faith, y’all, or whatever, do what you want, mama needs a nap.” It just goes to show, once you meet, know and love a person who embodies a quality that you find weird or strange or abhorrent, whether it’s race, religion or sexuality, it’s a lot easier to see that we’re all fundamentally human. I applaud you, Marie! Now go take that nap!

Here’s Marie at the ‘Race For The Cure’ doll signing in the Flamingo Las Vegas Promenade on May 2nd. Images thanks to WENN.com .
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Mar 19
'08
Two more reasons not to watch the Miss USA pageant

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This year’s Miss USA pageant is shaping up to be even more annoying than usual, if that’s possible. In addition to the standard fare of helmet hair, vaseline smiles, swimsuits and stupid questions that somehow always lead to the answer “World Peace,” the Donald Trump-produced cheesefest will also feature Donny and Marie Osmond as hosts.

Donnie [sic] and Marie Osmond will host the upcoming Miss USA pageant. The Miss Universe Organization says the brother-and-sister, song-and-dance stars will perform on the NBC Universal show April 11 from the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The network owns the pageant with real estate mogul Donald Trump.

Pageant executives say the telecast will represent the first time Donny and Marie Osmond have hosted a prime-time show together since 2000.

[From Associated Press]

heathermills.jpg As if a Donny and Marie reunion wasn’t reason enough to send you screaming from your television set, guess who’s signed on as a judge for the pageant? None other than that one-legged lawyer-soaker, Heather Mills.

“Extra” has exclusively learned that Heather Mills has been booked as a judge for The Miss USA Pageant, scheduled to take place on April 11 in Las Vegas.

Mills was a contestant on last season’s “Dancing with the Stars.” She was just been awarded almost $50 million in her divorce settlement with Sir Paul McCartney.

[From ExtraTV]

I really don’t see how this show could get any worse, unless Donald Trump decided to compete in the swimsuit portion of the evening. I guess you could turn it into a drinking game- every time Heather Mills says something crazy, you do a shot. And every time Marie Osmond plugs her creepy dolls, you chug a beer. You’ll be wasted by the time the talent competition starts- which, if you think about it, is the only way to watch this crap.

Donny and Marie Osmond are shown performing at the Osmond Family reunion on 8/14/07, thanks to PRPhotos.
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Jan 30
'08
Marie Osmond Dances Her Way into a Talk Show


Marie Osmond will be starring in her own daytime talk show set to launch in 2009. She agreed to the deal for an undisclosed amount of cash with syndicator Program Partners. The title of the show is—you guessed it—“Marie.”

“I like the philosophy that Program Partners brought to the table,” Ms. Osmond said Tuesday at a NATPE press conference announcing the show. “They’re giving me the freedom to do some things that I feel strongly about, and the timing is right for a show like this.

Ms. Osmond first hit the airwaves in 1976 in prime-time series “Donny & Marie.” She returned to television first in the 1995 ABC sitcom “Maybe This Time” and then with brother Donny in 1998 to co-host “Donny and Marie,” a talk/entertainment show from Sony that lasted two seasons.

“Marie Osmond is unique in this industry,” said Josh Raphaelson, co-founder of Program Partners. “She is a star with an authenticity that makes her relatable to every woman in America.”

[From TV Week]

Marie cha-cha’ed her way back into the spotlight with a controversial appearance on “Dancing With the Stars” last season. During the run of that show, Osmond fainted on live television, which some later claimed she staged. She also lost her father during the show’s run, and announced that her teenaged son was entering rehab. She finished in third place, after a bizarre performance in which she dressed as a giant doll. At the time, the performance was ridiculed, but now it looks like all that exposure has paid off.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Marie Osmond is shown at Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on 1/29/08 announcing her talk show. It’s not set to launch until Fall, 2009. Maybe it’s delayed because of the writer’s strike, but why announce it now if it’s not coming out for at least 18 months? Thanks to PRPhotos.

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Nov 28
'07
Marie Osmond Faked Her DWTS Collapse (spoilers)

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Apparently, the incident on Dancing with the Stars where Marie Osmond fainted was staged. Reality TV fake and scripted? I’d never believe it!

Sources on the set of “Dancing With the Stars” tell TMZ that Marie Osmond’s fainting spell was scripted — to the point where she had a writer just off camera feeding her lines when she stood up!

Our moles say Marie has a writer on set at all times, prompting her with witty conversation. One on-set source says he was in position when Marie went down — and didn’t miss a beat.

[From TMZ]

For all we know the real reason that Marie Osmond had to have a prompter was that she swears like a sailor on leave, and can’t be trusted to utter a sentence without dropping a few four-letter-words. A renpresentative for Marie denies that she has a writer-prompter.

Could this rumor be a nasty smear campaign to ruin her chances at winning DWTS?

In other Osmond family news, there are plans for the family to reunite for a television special, “The Osmond 50th Anniversary, starring The Osmond Brothers, with special guests Donny, Marie, and Jimmy.” Look for it on PBS in 2008.

Note by Celebitchy (includes spoilers): Marie Osmond came in third in this Season’s Dancing with the Stars, with Mel B and Maksim Chmerkovskiy the surprising runners-up. Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough won this season. It was Juliane’s second consecutive win as a dance pro. If this is true that Osmond faked her collapse, it hardly seems fair that she made it into the top three.

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Nov 7
'07
Tori Spelling gunning for spot on Dancing with the Stars (past episode spoilers)


I live in Europe, so I don’t watch American television yet, (although I’m trying to get JayBird to install one of those Slingbox devices so I can.) Right now I’m on “vacation” in the states, though, and my mother loves Dancing with the Stars and we watched a couple of episodes, fast forwarding through the results episode because they just drag that shit out as long as possible.

The show is quite entertaining, and it’s easy to see how people get hooked. When excellent dancer and Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan was eliminated in an upset last week, I suspected that she was involved with her partner, because of the way he was clinging to her and she called him “baby” all romantic-like. Sabrina and her partner, Mark Ballas, are indeed dating, with Sabrina confirming their romance to TVGuide, saying that “I always call him ‘Baby Marky.’ I absolutely love and adore him.” She also said they were going out on a date the next day. Sabrina and Mark were spotted out at Hollywood hotspot Hyde, and TMZ has video of a photographer asking them when they’re getting married, with Sabrina answering “August of 08.”

With all the attention and fame that comes with competing on the dance show, many c and d-listers are vying for a place. Tori Spelling is said to be anxious to appear next season, and to follow her 90210 cast mates, Jennie Garth and Ian Ziering’s, lead. The thing is, she’s also gunning for her husband, Dean McDermott, to be on the show, and since he’s only known as Mr. Tori Spelling, producers don’t want to take him on:

[Tori Spelling] is campaigning to be on next season’s Dancing with the Stars after seeing how it helped Beverly Hills 90210 pals Jennie Garth and Ian Ziering. “She is hoping it will open doors,” says an insider. “At the very least, she can earn some money from touring with the dancers after the show. She’s the breadwinner in her family and needs to keep her career alive.” There’s just one hitch – Tori has hinted that she wants her husband, Dean McDermott, on the show. The show’s producers “don’t want Dean at all,” adds the source.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, November 12, 2007]

I can see Tori appearing on the show, but she seems so gawky to me that you wouldn’t expect her to get the hang of it. Maybe it’s just her um, features, that give you that impression and she could be a surprisingly good dancer.

Jane Seymour and her partner were eliminated from last night’s Dancing with The Stars, with Jennie Garth also in the bottom two. Four couples remain on the show, Melanie B and Makshim, Helio Castroneves and Julianne, Jennie Garth and Derek, Marie Osmond and Jonathan, and Cameron Mathison and Edyta. Marie Osmond was absent from last night’s results show due to the death of her father. Jane Seymour also missed a results show in week two due to her mother’s death that day.

Nearly 50 million people watched the premiere of Dancing With The Stars this season, so you can see how the show appeals to minor celebrities like Tori.

Tori and Dean are shown on 9/28/07 in Vegas before Tori’s appearance with The Pussycat Dolls.

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