JASON Donovan is a well-known name due to his long showbiz career
The Australian is famous for his singing and acting, having starred alongside Kylie Minogue in Neighbours and having sold millions of records as a pop star.
Who is Jason Donovan?
Jason Donovan was born June 1, 1968, and is an Australian actor and singer.
He shot to fame in the late 80s when he played hunky Scott Robinson in Neighbours, before leaving in 1988 to start a music career.
He has sold over 3 million records, and his debut album Ten Good Reasons was one of the highest-selling albums of 1989.
Jason has also appeared in several stage musicals – he is mostly known for being the lead in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the early 1990s – a show he starred in again in 2019.
Jason also enjoyed a successful stint on I’m a Celebrity in 2006 where he finished in third place,
In 2011 he finished in third on Strictly Come Dancing.
He also appeared on Dancing on Ice and Children In Need Rocks The 80s.
What TV shows has Jason Donovan appeared in?
Jason become a household name playing Scott Robinson in Neighbours from 1986-1989.
He also made an appearance in I’m A Celebrity in 2006, where he came third in the series which was eventually won by Matt Willis.
And it appears he is no stranger to reality TV, having also appeared on Who Do You Think You Are?, Ready, Steady, Cook and Strictly Come Dancing in 2011 where he again finished third.
He’s also had stints on dramas over here and in Australia.
What are Jason’s biggest songs?
Here are the singer’s hit tunes:
- Especially For You
- Sealed With a Kiss
- Too Many Broken Hearts
- Any Dream Will Do
- All I Wanna Do Is Make You Mine
- I’m Doing Fine
- Rhythm of the Rain
- Too Late to Say Goodbye
Jason dated Kylie Minogue for three years in the 80s
When did Jason date Kylie Minogue?
Kylie and Jason began a love affair when they played onscreen sweethearts Scott and Charlene in Neighbours in the late 80s.
They went on to record Especially For You which topped the charts in 1988.
They broke up in 1989 after three years, but he has admitted the split was a “pretty big punch to take” when Kylie left him for INXS singer Michael Hutchence.
“It was an extremely painful parting of the ways and, without doubt, I took a long time to recover from it,” Jason told the Mirror. “Years, definitely.
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“It was bad enough that she’d run off with anybody, but she happened to run into the arms of the greatest rock god of the period, the very guy who I secretly wanted to be. That was a pretty big punch to take.
“I’ve since bumped into Kylie quite a few times,” he added. “The break-up never comes up in conversation. We’re not close enough to get into that.”
Is Jason Donovan married?
Jason is now happily married to Angela Malloch, and the couple have three children together – Jemma, Zac and Molly.
The pair met met on the Rocky Horror Show UK tour in 1998, which Jason was starring in at the time as transsexual Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
In 2008 they got married while celebrating Jason’s 40th birthday in Bali.
And Jason has credited his wife for “saving him” as he struggled with cocaine addiction in the 1990s.
