Jason Sean Donovan was born on 1 June 1968 and is an Australian actor and singer.
53 Facts About Jason Donovan
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Jason Donovan initially achieved fame in the Australian soap Neighbours, playing Scott Robinson, before beginning a career in music in 1988.
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Jason Donovan has appeared in several stage musicals, most prominently in the lead role of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the early 1990s.
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Jason Donovan was born on 1 June 1968 in the Melbourne suburb Malvern, Victoria.
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Jason Donovan is the son of Australian actress Sue McIntosh and British-born veteran stage and television actor Terence Donovan who has English and Irish heritage.
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Jason Donovan made his first television appearance at age 11 in a guest role on the Australian series Skyways in 1980.
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Jason Donovan appeared in the series I Can Jump Puddles and Golden Pennies before entering the cast of Neighbours in 1986 as Scott Robinson.
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Jason Donovan won his first Logie Award for "Best New Talent" in 1987 and received a commendation in the category "Performance by a Male Actor In a Series" from the Television Society of Australia's Penguin Awards.
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Jason Donovan won the 1990 Logie Award for "Most Popular Actor in a Mini-Series".
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The song was accompanied by a widely noted image change for Jason Donovan, who shed his trademark Neighbours mullet for a contemporary undercut.
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Jason Donovan released his debut album, Ten Good Reasons, in May 1989, which reached number one.
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For two weeks, Jason Donovan held the number one positions in the singles chart and the albums chart simultaneously, when his next single, a cover of Brian Hyland's "Sealed With a Kiss", entered the UK charts at number one.
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Jason Donovan released his second album, Between The Lines, in May 1990, again produced by Stock Aitken Waterman.
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Between 1988 and 1992, Jason Donovan garnered 16 Top 40 hit singles in the UK.
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Jason Donovan embarked on an extensive world tour in 1990, The "Doin' Fine Tour".
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Jason Donovan continued to act alongside his pop career, and in 1990 he appeared in his first feature film, Blood Oath.
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In 1991, Jason Donovan accepted the lead role in the restaged London Palladium version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed by Steven Pimlott.
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Jason Donovan had his third solo UK No 1 single with one of its songs, "Any Dream Will Do".
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In 1992, Jason Donovan launched a libel action against The Face magazine which had published allegations that he was homosexual.
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Jason Donovan moved to Polydor Records and released his third album, All Around The World.
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Jason Donovan later admitted that by 1995 he had a serious drug problem, taking around three grams of cocaine a day.
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Later in 1995, Jason Donovan starred in the Australian TV film The Last Bullet with Koji Tamaki, directed by Michael Pattison, which was set in World War II on the Pacific island of Borneo.
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In 1998, Donovan took the lead role of Dr Frank N Furter in the UK touring production of The Rocky Horror Show, where he met stage manager Angela Malloch.
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Jason Donovan finished his original run on 13 March 2005, but was then invited back from June onwards to play in the final two months of the show, until its closure on 4 September 2005.
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Virgin ran TV advertisements showing Jason Donovan answering prank calls, asking the viewer not to call him, then displaying his number.
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Jason Donovan took part in many Bushtucker Trials, which included wearing a helmet full of insects and playing a giant game of Operation.
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Jason Donovan lost out on the King of the Jungle Crown to Matt Willis.
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Jason Donovan performed a medley of songs from Joseph along with other actors who have played the eponymous role at the Concert for Diana in July 2007.
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In early 2008, Jason Donovan had a role in ITV's post-watershed soap opera Echo Beach; the series was cancelled after 12 episodes.
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Jason Donovan presented Sunday Night with Jason Donovan, a programme on The One Network of British local radio stations.
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On 25 September 2008, Jason Donovan performed in the canteen at the head offices of Tesco in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
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Jason Donovan was promoting his forthcoming album, Let It Be Me, which was released on 10 November 2008.
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Also in 2008, Jason Donovan performed at the Party In The Park in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, storming off stage after hecklers squirted him with a water pistol.
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In 2009, Jason Donovan performed as Tick in the London stage musical production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert at the Palace Theatre.
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Also in 2009, Jason Donovan began appearing in television commercials for the frozen food supermarket chain Iceland in the UK.
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Jason Donovan voiced the part of Toby the Kangaroo in the environmental animated film Animals United.
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In February 2011, Jason Donovan appeared on the BBC series Ready, Steady, Cook.
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From September 2011, Jason Donovan took part in the ninth series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
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Jason Donovan was partnered with dancer Kristina Rihanoff and finished third in the competition.
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Jason Donovan presented a voice-tracked radio show on Heart each Sunday from 10am to 12noon.
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In March 2012, Jason Donovan released a new album of covers, Sign Of Your Love, which peaked at number 36 in the UK Albums Chart.
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In May 2012, Jason Donovan was interviewed by Piers Morgan on the ITV series Piers Morgan's Life Stories, in which he talked openly about his career, his past, his former relationship with Kylie Minogue, and his battle with drugs.
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In late 2012, Jason Donovan again toured the UK and Europe in a new version of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, this time playing Parson Nathaniel.
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On 5 May 2013, Jason Donovan was heard narrating Pick TV's budget version of Rude Tube, entitled Video Surf.
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Jason Donovan revealed in January 2015 that he was invited to return to Neighbours for the show's 30th anniversary celebrations, but he declined the offer, adding "it's just not something I want to do".
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In 2016, Jason Donovan toured the UK with his Ten Good Reasons and Greatest Hits Tour.
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In December 2017 it was announced that in the new year Jason Donovan would be taking his second break from his radio shows.
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Jason Donovan has confirmed he will be returning to Heart at some point in the future.
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In summer 2019, Jason Donovan returned to the London Palladium in a new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, this time playing the Pharaoh alongside Sheridan Smith as the Narrator and Jac Yarrow as Joseph.
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For Christmas 2020, Jason Donovan was due to make his pantomime debut as The Evil Ringmaster in Goldilocks and the Three Bears at the Birmingham Hippodrome, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic the panto was postponed to Christmas 2021.
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In July 2022, Jason Donovan returned as Scott to Neighbours for a one-off cameo appearance for what was believed to be the show's final ever episode.
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Jason Donovan is married to Angela Malloch, with whom he has three children.
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Jason Donovan confirmed he is Jewish through his maternal great-grandmother, Eileen Dawson.