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Still standing ; Obstacles haven’t blocked Osmond sister from success
Byline: NICK ROGERS NICK ROGERS A&E EDITOR
If told in January that Marie Osmond eventually would dominate her docket on “Entertainment Tonight,” Mary Hart may have slapped you with the latest drunken Britney Spears videotape. Read more
Osmond bringing her version of the holidays;
Dori O’Neal Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.
McClatchy - Tribune Business News 12-14-2007
Dec. 14–It’s been a hell of a year of change for Marie Osmond. She went through a divorce in March, lost her father in October, and last month it was revealed on Larry King Live that her 16-year-old son had entered rehab. Read more
Marie Osmond Felled by Dancing Curse
Dancing with the Stars has featured an unusually large amount of drama this season, even by reality-show standards.
Marie Osmond fainted on-camera Monday after her samba performance, joining the eerily growing list of celebrities who are literally suffering through this installment of the hit ABC series.
The 48-year-old singer and mother of eight appeared to be just fine by the time the show came back from commercial break, with host Tom Bergeron informing the audience that Osmond’s first words upon awakening were, “Oh, crap.”
“Once in awhile that happens to me, when I get winded and I stop breathing,” she explained backstage. “I’m so sorry.”
Everyone who had just witnessed the incident was pretty relieved, as well.
“In movies, swooning is so romantic,” Bergeron said. “In real life, it scares the crap out of me.”
As cohost Samantha Harris commented, however, fainting didn’t inflate Osmond’s score, which was a low-end 21.
Osmond’s tumble comes a day after Jennifer Lopez pretaped a performance that will air Tuesday. The singer, who was scheduled to appear on this week’s results show, was forced to cancel due to a family emergency.
And Lopez’s cancellation comes one week after Gloria Estefan had to bow out so that she could jet back to Miami to be with her mother, who had just undergone emergency surgery.
Jane Seymour missed the Oct. 2 results show so that she could travel to England to be with her family following the death of her 92-year-old mother, Mieke Frankenburg. The former Bond girl returned to the show the following week, saying that she would continue to dance in honor of her mum.