Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
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b. 1969
Born in Victoria, Australia, Jason Donovan, 55, began acting at nine and joined Neighbours in 1986. In 1988 he released Especially for You, his duet with Kylie Minogue, which topped the UK charts for three weeks. The following year he had his first solo UK No 1 with Too Many Broken Hearts. In 1991, he took the lead in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. His other musicals include the Rocky Horror Show, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Grease. Next month, he tours the UK with his show Doin’ Fine 25. He is married with three children, and lives in London and Oxfordshire.
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Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
Hardworking, authentic and honest.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
The inability to do things for myself.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
I haven’t grown up.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
My relationship with drugs.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
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