1. Donnie Wahlberg is a founding member of the boy band New Kids on the Block.
29 Facts About Donnie Wahlberg
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Donnie Wahlberg was an executive producer of the TNT reality television show Boston's Finest.
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Donnie Wahlberg was nominated for Choice Scream at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards for his work in the Saw films.
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Donnie Wahlberg has produced and starred in Rock This Boat, Donnie Loves Jenny and Return of the Mac on Pop TV.
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Donnie Wahlberg is the older brother of actor Mark Wahlberg and younger brother of actor Robert Wahlberg, film producer Jim Wahlberg, and chef Paul Wahlberg.
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Donnie Wahlberg is the eighth of nine children, with older siblings, Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie and younger brother, Mark.
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Donnie Wahlberg has three half-siblings from his father's first marriage: Donna, Scott and Buddy.
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Donnie Wahlberg's mother, Alma Elaine, was a bank clerk and nurse's aide who died on April 19,2021, and his father, Donald Edmond Wahlberg, who died in 2008, was a teamster who worked as a delivery driver; they divorced in 1982.
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Donnie Wahlberg's father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Irish, English, and French-Canadian ancestry.
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Donnie Wahlberg has described his family as having an Irish-Catholic background.
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Donnie Wahlberg said his first job was in the foreign-exchange office of a bank.
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Donnie Wahlberg went back to his home town for a starring role in the South Boston-based film Southie.
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Donnie Wahlberg received attention for his role in the 1999 film The Sixth Sense, playing the patient of Bruce Willis' character in the opening sequence.
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In 2001, Wahlberg co-starred as Second Lieutenant C Carwood Lipton in the television miniseries Band of Brothers.
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In 2003, Donnie Wahlberg starred alongside Timothy Olyphant, Jason Lee, and his Band of Brothers co-star Damian Lewis as the mentally challenged Duddits in William Goldman and Lawrence Kasdan's adaptation of the Stephen King alien-invasion thriller, Dreamcatcher.
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Donnie Wahlberg reprised the role in Saw III in 2006 and Saw IV in 2007, appearing in Saw V in 2008 via archive footage from the previous films.
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In 2008, Donnie Wahlberg appeared in Righteous Kill and co-starred in What Doesn't Kill You.
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Donnie Wahlberg previously worked with Blue Bloods co-star Bridget Moynahan on an unsuccessful 2008 TNT pilot called Bunker Hill, and encouraged her to take the role as his sister on Blue Bloods.
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Donnie Wahlberg directed an episode in the show's fourth season.
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Donnie Wahlberg has said he considers himself a character actor rather than a "movie star" like his brother.
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Donnie Wahlberg is the current host of the documentary series Very Scary People since 2019, the broadcast of which moved from HLN to Investigation Discovery in 2023.
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In 2021, Donnie Wahlberg worked on season five of The Masked Singer as the rooster "Cluedle-Doo" who gave exclusive clues to the viewers.
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Donnie Wahlberg even stuck around when Omarion was unmasked as the wild card contestant "Yeti".
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In 1991, Donnie Wahlberg was charged with first-degree arson for setting a fire at the historic Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Authorities stated that Donnie Wahlberg, then known as the "bad boy" of boy band New Kids on the Block, was partying with fellow band member Danny Wood and fans in the early morning hours when Donnie Wahlberg dumped vodka on a hallway carpet and ignited it.
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Donnie Wahlberg was facing up to 20 years in prison, but the charge was later reduced to misdemeanor criminal mischief, and eventually dismissed after Donnie Wahlberg agreed to appear in public-service videos addressing fire safety, drug abuse and drunk driving.
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Donnie Wahlberg married Kimberly Fey on August 20,1999, with whom he has two sons.
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Donnie Wahlberg is a fan of the Boston Celtics and has been seen attending many of their games.
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Donnie Wahlberg has said he makes an effort to engage with fans on social media and in person.