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Marie Osmond: Dolls
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Marie Osmond, being the good Mormon that she is, loves nothing more than...self-exploitative capitalism! The Dancing with the Stars runner-up has created a line of dolls for her QVC collection that bear her likeness and come cloaked in recreations of her costumes from Dancing. They are scary. [E! News]
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MARIE OSMOND has created a series of new dancing dolls as a tribute to the time she spent on TV hit DANCING WITH THE STARS. The singer and doll collector finished in the finals of the reality TV contest earlier this week but came in third place. She’s a big winner in the business dance... after using the show to inspire a new collection of dolls, dressed in some of the outfits she wore on the dancefloor. The Paper Roses singer unveiled her new Boogie Woogie doll, Paso Doble doll and Quickstep doll on U.S. shopping channel QVC on Thursday night. The first two models in the collection - the Samba doll and the Foxtrot doll - have already sold out after fans of Osmond were given the chance to buy them before the star went public with her new business venture.
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In 2001, Marie and her husband, record producer Brian Blosil, bought the company that was manufacturing her porcelain dolls. They named the new firm Marian ("Mah-RYE-an"). It is expanding to capture a broad retail presence and will ultimately brand Marie's name into an array of products, not just dolls. Marie has eight children (some of them adopted) and over 80 nieces and nephews.
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On November 26, 2007, Marie disappointed the judges during her freestyle performance when she attempted to imitate a doll as a nod to her fans. Judge Bruno Tonioli described her freestyle as "The loopiest thing I have ever seen. It defies critiquing." She received the lowest scores in Dancing With the Stars finals history. On November 27, 2007, Marie came in third place on the fifth season of Dancing with the Stars.
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MARIE OSMOND placed third in this season's "Dancing with the Stars" competition, but a doll that she made in her image, wearing a replica of one of her "Dancing" outfits, finished first! Marie's Adora Belle Foxtrot Doll sold out in only eight minutes when it went on sale on QVC. Marie is a regular with her line of porcelain dolls on the shopping network.
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When Marie ventured into the doll business, she decided to take them to the airwaves first. She had quite literally grown up on television and considered it to be the perfect avenue for marketing her dolls. The massive televised retailer, QVC, was Marie's choice. The fact that she would be able to explain each doll to the audience was important to her so she could make people realize that she wasn't just using her name for profit, but that she really is an avid doll collector.
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