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In a new interview with Us Weekly, Marie Osmond opened up about motherhood and defended her choice to not to leave her eight children an inheritance. 'Why would you enable your child to not try to be something? I don’t know anybody who becomes anything if they’re just handed money,' the show business vet, 63, said.... ....She was filming an episode of The Talk when she noted, 'I think you do a great disservice to your children to just hand them a fortune because you take away the one most important gift you can give your children, and that’s the...

Perhaps this was a cry out for relevancy - something she hasn't been since the Clinton administration, but comedienne Roseanne Barr is showing her social commentary knows no bounds. In a March 4 post on her blog, Barr used the suicide of Marie Osmond's son, Michael Blosil, to go on a sick and twisted anti-religion screed. According to the former sitcom star, any underlying issues that led to Blosil taking his own life were a result of "his church and the people in it": "marie osmonds poor gay son killed himself because he had been told how wrong and how...

Marie Osmond's teenage son committed suicide last night, this according to Entertainment Tonight. Michael Blosil, one of Osmond's eight children, reportedly jumped from his downtown Los Angeles apartment building. ET says Michael left behind a note that said he intended to commit suicide due to a life-long battle with depression. Donny Osmond released a statement that says: "Please pray for my sister and her family."

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The headlines are all over the internet, suggesting that Marie Osmond has a gay daughter and that the singer supports same sex marriage. And that's exactly what Osmond seemed to be saying in a radio interview which aired in Los Angeles Tuesday. In that interview, Marie Osmond talks openly about her daughter, her faith and gay marriage. And her comments do seem to suggest she supports what the LDS Church does not. Marie Osmond told KOST 103.5 in Los Angeles, "One of the things that we have to be careful of is that...

We continue to watch ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and "The Bachelor". Was Marie Osmond's faint real? Some wise commentary on my extensive experience with fainting. With pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.