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Donny Osmond: Big Brother

Tim Cooper, The Observer, 25 March 2001

He was on stage by five, on tour by eight and receiving 50,000 fan letters a week by 13. But behind his success lay loneliness, family resentment and panic attacks. Now, after 20 years in the wilderness, Donny Osmond is back and so are his knicker-throwing fans. Tim Cooper catches up with the world's coolest Mormon.

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