I’m Rosie Curtis.

Oh, I saw him on telly back early ‘72, I didn’t know who The Osmonds were and sort of like my love for Donny started then I think. And I think it was in 1975 my sister took me on a surprise trip to a concert, to The Osmonds, and it was at… It was somewhere in London and I remember they was on a big screen because obviously a concert venue, you can be quite a way back, but I'd never been to one before, I was like, well, I'm in the same room as Donny Osmond. It was like amazing. And I'll never forget during one of his songs, he raised his hand and I just sat down crying and as I looked up he raised his hand and I thought he can see me, he seen me. Donny Osmond’s seen me!

And then sort of The Osmonds went off the picture for a little while, and sort of like early ‘80s, or it was about ‘81 actually, ‘80/’81, they done some comeback tours, so obviously I was very cool and said I'll get a ticket to go and see him. Stood outside the back door, as soon as they all arrived, I was like a woman, like I had a mad woman inside me, I went mad. I did get to meet Mrs Osmond then, so that was quite good. 

And then whenever he was over in the country I’d try and go to where he was, even if I couldn’t get tickets to the concert, I'd go and stand outside the stage door or whatever. 

And then when I was diagnosed with my breast cancer back in 2005, he was over in England, he was doing a book signing. I was in a wheelchair. My daughter came to join us and about 6 o’clock it just all went really sort of like quiet. And from the upstairs, it'd all been cleared and you just saw this person coming down the staircase and it was Donny Osmond. And my sister said all she felt was my wheelchairs shaking so much because I was crying with excitement

And they'd already, all the security’d been around [to say], you know, ‘there's my book, can you sign it? And he will just put Donny Osmond on it, there'll be no To’ and all this. Yeah ‘no touching’. So, I queued up in my wheelchair and when my sister took me round he said ‘hello, how are you?’ All the better for seeing you, Donny! And he said ‘good’. And then he asked me about my illness, what my treatment plan was and then in my book, he said ‘what's your name?’ I said Rosie. And he actually put on it ‘To Rosie, Best wishes Donny Osmond’ and then I said can I have a hug? He said ‘of course you can’. And he came round the desk and gave me a hug as well. So off we went.

A little while later I just went, ohh I meet Donny Osmond and I mentioned the word breast to him, because I'd said I'd got breast cancer. All I could worry about was that I said breast to Donny. So that was like one of the times I met him. Another couple of times we'd been at stage doors when he's turned up and I've managed to sort of grab hold of him or whatever.

Just before I was diagnosed, in December, as I was diagnosed in February so the December before we went to pantomime at the London Palladium. And we went round by the stage door thinking, oh, he's probably in by now. There's a little pub over the road, so we're sitting there and every time a car went by, everyone runs forward,’ that’s not him, that’s not him’. And then Jeanie goes to me ‘over there, look with the commotion’; he just walked down the street! So I went over, pushed some woman out of the way, and then sort of held his arm, walked along with him holding his arm. 

‘Cos I’d run over, it wasn't quite like when you see in New York when they're jumping over the taxis to get the person, but I had made it over there pretty quick, hadn't taken my phone or anything with me, but there I was with Donny Osmond.

Obviously, my meetings with Donny are finished now but I just think I'm luckier than some women. As I say, I'm perfectly calm until I see him and it's like that mad woman becomes me. I am all of a sudden that that woman. And I'm just like, oh off she goes. What is it? My nephew said even Usain Bolt would have trouble catching up with her if she was chasing after Donny Osmond.