When were you happiest?

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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Recorded Donny Osmond said elsewhere, not written here
In 1971, I was sitting in a hotel room in London and there was a television chat show going on, debating whether Donny Osmond should be deported because of the chaos he was wreaking. And while I was watching this, there were fans on the street below, chanting my name. I was 13 and thought, “Does it get any better than this?”

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2016 source ↗

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As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2022 source ↗

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Last Monday was a really emotional day for me: my last son graduated from high school and he’s going on a mission for the Mormon Church soon. I’ve already experienced it four times with my other sons: my oldest went to London, my second son to Italy, my third to Scotland and my fourth the Netherlands. They come back, but the little boy stays out there. He never comes back.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2016 source ↗

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