Donny Osmond has been married to Debbie Osmond for more than four decades. Debbie and Osmond first met when she was 15 years old. Prior to their relationship, she dated his elder brother, Jay. Despite the odds, Osmond married his muse on May 8, 1978, at the Salt Lake Utah Temple, following “three entire years of attempting to win her heart and persuade her to marry” him. The first step in winning her heart was a treasure expedition he devised in 1976, as Osmond revealed to Utah Valley 360 in 2016.
The First Kiss of Donny Osmond and His Wife
Debbie was playing hard to get, so Osmond planned something spectacular for their first kiss. He arrived in a limo and drove her to Sundance Mountain Resort for supper. He led her on a treasure quest for gifts after supper. The quest began with her examining beneath the restaurant seats one by one. She eventually had to stop at a phone booth and a McDonald’s. There were hints at each location, and she eventually ended herself in front of Osmond for the last clue. The clue said that if she kissed Osmond, she would receive her last cue.
“And let me tell you, it was fireworks!” Osmond said as he recalled their first kiss. After she kissed him, Osmond informed her that her gifts had been on her bed the whole time. When the couple returned to her room, a photograph of them at Sundance was in a frame, and their love connection had taken off. Osmond claimed that the image reflected that night and the start of their relationship. He and his wife even reproduced the photograph 40 years later, in 2016, on her 57th birthday.
Donny Osmond and his wife have five children.
The couple married in May 1978 and had their first child, Donald Clark, on July 31, 1979. Debbie gave birth to Jeremy James on June 8, 1981, expanding their family. Osmond and Debbie had three additional boys over the following four years: Brandon Michael (born January 29, 1985), Christopher Glenn (born December 12, 1990), and Joshua Davis (born February 16, 1998). Despite the singer’s celebrity, the couple kept their children out of the limelight.
When she spoke with Utah Valley 360, she revealed their reasoning “We’ve decided to keep Donny’s job apart from our family life. We didn’t want our children to grow up in Hollywood, surrounded by the entertainment business.” Osmond’s children have established their own families. On August 21, 2005, he became a grandpa for the first time when his son Jeremy and his wife Melissa welcomed Dylan into the world. Osmond has had a lot more grandkids since then – 12 to be precise. Several times, the artist has acknowledged his love for family and raved over his grandkids.
