the man who's rebuilding his home received enough to get some materials to put new windows in his house and get his rebuilding started. they were very happy for that, but they are also very happy for all the individuals who have stepped forward to help them remove debris from their property to bring them food, clothing. they say they underestimated human nature until this tragedy happened to show them the true good side of people around them. >> david mattingly, thank you. here's how you can help. log on to cnn.com/impact. check out our special page. it's all the tools you need that you can help make a difference. i'm drew griffin in atlanta. piers morgan is next. i'm at the flamingo theater in las vegas, current home of american pop icon donnie and marie osmond. >> i'm a little bit country. >> and i -- ♪ i'm a little bit rock and roll

>> they gave me an interview in which marie talks about her remarriage to her first husband in vegas. >> we are grateful for what we have now and he is my best friend. we have history and my children love him. >> she talks emotionally about the death of her son last year. >> it doesn't heal. it just -- god gives you respites. you know, just little breathers. you know, he's my baby. >> donnie gives great advice to justin bieber about life after being a teen idol superstar. >> if i was justin bieber, what would you say? >> put on the seat belt. it's going to be a bumpy ride. >> and the pair of them also explain how they look so good after 40 years in the business. you admit to one dose of botox. >> oh, yeah. i tried it. >> this is a prime time exclusive of "piers morgan tonight."

>> marie. >> it's donnie and marie. i want to say welcome to the flamingo, home of donnie and marie. >> i love it. >> do you know when you call the hotel that's what they say? >> really? >> it's so cool. >> even for you guys who have been in show business all your lives, to have your own very classic old style theater in vegas, your name in lights on the strip. i walk down this morning and there you are, these huge billboards. it must give you a boost. >> it's an ego builder. if you feel bad, drive past the flamingo and it's the biggest billboard in the city. >> did you are imagine in the '70s when you started that show together, did you ever imagine that here you'd be 40 years later doing this in vegas? >> no. you think about a career and especially being a woman in the entertainment business, you're

lucky to get seven, eight years. we're going on what, how many? >> 48 years. >> 48 years now. >> incredible. >> and its consistently, too, even in the show i say how grateful can i be, and i know we're both so grateful. we always knew we'd do something together again but to be in las vegas. >> if i spent 14 hours with my sister, bottles would start being thrown in my direction. >> believe me, bottles are thrown backstage. >> i have heard that about you. >> it wouldn't be by me. it would be at me. >> let's call it the way it is. we rub each other wrong every once in a while, but that's what works for done indiana and marie on stage. everybody can relate to it who has a sibling, but there's something about this relationship that works on stage. >> it is almost unique i would say in show business, your relationship. a brother and sister who have been doing what you've been doing for so long who still like each other.

>> well, let's don't push it. >> well, you know, there is at different relationship as we have matured. definitely it's not 14 and 16 years old anymore. but, you know, there's a mutual respect, and it's nice to be out there with somebody who they can tell if something is not working and they're there to cover ep other or whatever it is. >> it just happened the other night. marie was feeling under the weather and i filled in for her and just couple weeks prior to that, just the reverse thing happened. i was really feeling bad, she filled in and did some more in the show. >> is the bottom line -- >> pulled it off. >> if it's your sister, you can completely trust each other. >> yes. >> in a way that maybe -- >> i can emphatically say yes. >> it will be 100%. >> that's the thing about us. people say what keeps you going? why are you still in the business after these many years? our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well. when we hit the stage, i'm tell

you something, when we started this thing, we got so much ridicule and comments about, oh, you're spending too much money. too many lights. the set, the orchestra, the dancers, the multimedia. you're only going to be here six weeks. so marie and i stuck to our guns. we said this is going to be a great show. we're going to put everything into it. >> and you have to remember, we did our own things for many years. this is like the first time we've worked together. >> for a long, long time. >> in a long, long time. >> so it's almost like i'll use the analogy of getting a value meal. somebody -- they get more than what they paid for. you come to the donnie and marie show. >> do you think you're not the last of because there's still some others around but of that old school ethic of doing these kind of shows when you see the young performers today, it seems to me they don't have that same ethic. >> i'll tell you what i feel is i feel very blessed that i got to grow up working with, you know, sammy davis jr., elvis presley. >> sinatra.

>> right. and to learn, to watch, to be literally not just to watch them but work with them. >> what did you learn from the greats? what made them great? what's the thing that takes you to that level? >> i don't know if i speak on behalf of marie, about you when we put this show together, you can throw as much money as you want at a show. people don't walk out humming the lights and they say those are the greatest costumes in the world. >> but it's important to have those things. >> you got to walk out with people saying, i know a little bit more about donnie and marie. here is the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. producer miss, they leave out the heart and soul, and that's what i learned from sammy davis jr., frank sinatra. you went to see those shows and you go the to know them. >> we did qvc the other day -- >> don't go into that. >> not even that. he did leave his fly down, but before that -- >> you wanted to sell records. >> exactly. i'll do anything to sell a record. >> but just to continue what you he did leave his fly down, but before that -- >> you wanted to sell records. >> exactly. i'll do anything to sell a

record. >> but just to continue what you were saying, learning from old school, we walk out and immediately he goes and grabs something that somebody is selling and he starts modeling it. the producer cuts to a shot, a still shot, of the product. and i thought, boy, that is so not what i learned in television. we did catch those live moments and to see him modeling a dress. that's television. >> who would you most liked to have seen. >> today it's like it's not on the script. >> thank you for telling the world i modeled a dress. >> it wasn't on the script so they panic. >> who of all the greats that played in vegas would you most liked to have seen? >> we did. >> we worked with all of them. >> i remember going to the hilton -- >> that's amazing to me. >> you name a name and we'll tell you if we worked with them. >> did you perform a sinatra?

>> yes. >> sammy davis? >> yes. >> elvis. >> yes. >> john wayne. you name it, it's crazy. ethel merman. >> i went to see elvis presley, his closing night show at the hilton. we were opening up the next show. i remember watching the king on stage. he could do no wrong. the next night i'm in his dressing room with my brothers getting ready and the door opens up, hi, everybody, i'm elvis presley and he really talked like this, too. i want to say hi and good luck. >> that's good. >> i thought how cool is that, the king of rock and roll just walked through the door and he's a real person. it taught me a lot about leaving the star on stage. when you go off stage, you're just another person. and it really put it -- the whole show -- >> it was their job. >> what else made those guys the best? >> they worked. >> i think they didn't look at it as being a celebrity. they looked at it as being an entertainer. it was their job and it was every day how do i be better? they loved that audience. we love our audiences. we want them to leave feeling

that, you know what? it's an expensive ticket, not as expensive as some of them here, but when they leave they got their money's worth, they had an experience, something that brought them back to some kind of memory, whether it was way back the donnie and marie original shows or whether it was a current something they saw like "dancing with the stars" or whatever. they walk away feeling that they got to know us better. >> here is another thing, piers. sometimes i feel like entertainers, young entertainers that jump into the business get a lot of fame and fortune. >> wait a minute, we're young. >> whatever. >> you actually look ridiculously young. i'm going to come to this in a moment, how you have done this. >> so many people feel entitled p.m. i'm on stage, you need to like me. yeah, there's that attitude, that confidence on stage, but they forget about getting out there and working and doing all those little gigs, 366 days a year and going through the work, going through the motions. >> being a proper star really from what you're saying is

looking out to an audience and making them feel as important as they make you feel. >> absolutely. and, you know -- >> because i don't detect that in so many of the new acts. >> what he said that's crucial, i remember milton burl and he came on and took a script and he started -- no, this won't work. he worked to make that silly little three-minute sketch brilliant. and it wasn't just, oh, that's okay. he worked with the writers. it was a constant effort by the people we got to work with to make everything the best it could be even if it was a stupid sketch, which usually it was on our show. >> do you remember what groucho marx did to you? >> yeah. >> dirty old man. >> groucho marx. >> pinched my butt. >> pinched her butt all the time. >> how many people can say they worked with groucho. >> wasn't it groucho who said you're only as old as the woman you feel. >> i haven't heard that one. >> i would have been 14 1/2, no, 15. >> this was completely inappropriate. >> which would have been

illegal. >> i miss him. >> who was john wayne like? >> john wayne was a very stoic man. >> tall. >> and just -- >> so sweet. >> he talked like this. >> he was john wayne. >> i'm doing a lot of impressions today. >> why, thank you kid. >> please, don't encourage him. >> you should come on "america's got talent." >> i probably should. >> when we come back, we'll get to the nitty-gritty. you got married. >> thank you. >> not you. >> i got married 33 years ago. >> you just got remarried. >> yes. >> to your ex-husband. >> my first husband, uh-huh. >> unbelievable. we'll be right back.

donnie and par ri, we're talking about vegas and it's great to be and it's exciting. the most exciting thing to happen in vegas is you got married. >> that's the most exciting thing? >> because you got married to a guy you married before. >> it was the most exciting thing for me in my life. >> tell me how did this happen? >> well -- >> you got married how long ago? >> it's been 29 years. >> 29 years ago -- >> i'll forever be 29. >> so 29 years ago you married this guy and the marriage only lasts three years? >> uh-huh. >> and you get divorced. why did you split up then? what was wrong then?

>> you know, i think too young. the world was watching us under a microscope. just a lot of things went into play, but, you know, you move on, your heart is broken. we have a child together, and, you know, looking back, it is what it is. the thing that i find fascinating about now is that, you know, he's so sweet, and he still is the core of who i fell in love with. >> you remarried, but he never did. >> no, he never remarried. >> because he never remarried, did you in the back of your mind ever think, i wonder if one day -- >> i really did not, no. there was no we would ever -- really, do you really think that way? no. but really it was our son who i was moving here and he said, you know, dad, mom needs help moving, and we have always kind of known each other and been amicable and friendly, but it wasn't until about two years ago that we thought, well, let's give this a shot.

>> that was after you split up and divorced your second husband. >> i have been divorced almost, what, six years now or something like that. >> you were a single woman and he was a single guy. circumstances of vegas. what goes on in vegas -- >> stays in vegas. >> in your case stayed in vegas. >> it was just we didn't really want anybody to know if it didn't work out, that hurts children. >> did your son know you were dating? >> no. >> how long did you keep it from him? >> when we told him we were getting married. >> can i interject a thought? i thought the most beautiful part of that wedding was the fact that steven, their son, was one of the witnesses to that marriage, and to me that was the culminating -- it just gave me chills when i saw that. >> it's an amazing story. >> the story is it's a cinderella story with a lot of bumps in the road with a beautiful ending. >> it is.

completely that. and wonderful for you after all you've been through. what i find extraordinary is that you're dating your son's dad and he doesn't know. what did he say when you told him? >> can you imagine if it didn't work out? that would be a double hurt because -- >> and your son is nearly 30 now. >> he's 28, yeah. don't make any any older than i am. >> was your reaction? >> he was the first person i told. >> i thought it was fantastic. i always had this familial relationship with steve. i loved the guy. he was a great brother-in-law, it hurt me for my sister, but it really hurt me so see them fall apart the way they did. >> when you see your sister have her heart broken as you said you did the first time when the marriage fell apart, doesn't part of you feel that protective thing. >> let's go one step further. it's always been uncomfortable between -- at least for me between us that i have a very successful marriage of 33 years and she didn't because we've always shared our careers and

everything together, and so it's always been a very difficult part for me. but when i saw that, kind of getting emotional about this, when i saw them come back together again it was just a great moment. >> it is emotional. it's a remarkable story. >> yeah. >> the best was when we were kneeling across the alter, when we were married in vegas, no the by elvis, it was in the mormon temple, but they asked the man first and he said yes. and then -- you know, our eyes were very teary-eyed. it was beautiful. but i saw our son sitting there, and he was smiling and then it was my turn to say it next and all of a sudden he got this look on his little face like, mom, you better say yes. and then i said yes and his little face just beamed. >> it was perfect. >> what was the moment when you thought i want to be back with this guy? was there a moment? >> you know, the only thing i can say is when it's right, it's really right.

and there is not one piece of doubt in me that we weren't always right. it's just we're smarter now. >> do you think the reason that steven never remarried is that he quietly hoped one day -- you're nodding. you think that. do you think that? >> i just think i'm a hard habit to break. no. >> it's a song i feel coming on. and even more incredibly, you wore the same dress that you wore when you first married him. >> yeah. i had designed this beautiful dress. my daughter rachel helped me design it. she designs my clothes in the show. it showed up five days before the wedding in pieces. crazy. and four days, five days before i got my dress, i found out in my garage a box with my original wedding dress. i didn't even know i had it still, and so i took it down and i was having it, you know, dry cleaned and whatever, put away again because it had been

opened. well, immediately i started crying because this dress was a mess, the one i designed and the lady who was helping me said where is that dress. it's at the dry cleaners. we said have you started cleaning it yet? no, we haven't. i said i need it back! and it fit. >> you're the same size exactly as you were 26, 27 years ago. >> i had to let it out a tiny bit across my upper back, and, you know, just like that much. >> there are women all over america going i wish i could get in my dress. >> i was so happy. >> when you saw yourself, what did you think, donnie, when you saw her in that dress again. >> it's beautiful. i have a picture in my dressing room -- >> did you get it? i left a picture up this for him. >> i started crying, there's my sister in her original wedding dress -- >> back with the guy. >> it's a picture of my wife and myself, steve, and marie, and it's just -- it's one of my

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marie, i want to talk to you -- >> what do you want to talk to me about? >> actually, it's sort of serious thing. >> should i leave? >> no, i want you to stay, too. the day that you chose to get married was a very significant day. people didn't realize that really until they worked it out. it was the day that your mother was born. >> uh-huh tp. >> and it was the day your son michael was born who so tragically passed away a year ago. did you choose that day deliberately or was it just a freak coincidence? >> no, i chose it deliberately. it's one of the reasons why we kind of hurried to do it. it was either do it then or do it in -- >> at the end of the august. >> at the end of august and i didn't want to wait until august, and i was born on my father's birthday and i always celebrated with him and michael always celebrated with my mom,

and it was chosen because -- that was a great day. that's the day he was born, and it was a wonderful, wonderful gift. he's amazing boy. and that way they could all be there kind of symbolically. >> i get that. >> and i know my mom had something to do with getting steve and me back together. i know she did. i think she even put that dress in my garage. >> would she have been happy, your mom. >> oh, yes. >> our parents really loved steve. >> they loved steve. >> what were you thinking about michael on the day you got married given it was the day he was born? >> as a matter of fact, we took a picture with -- i took a picture with steve and all the kids, and i had donny stand in for michael and we're going to take -- put michael's face on his body. >> photo shop me out. she does that a lot. >> i like to foe show shop his head off him. >> i watched the oprah interview you did about -- when you talked about michael's death and donnie, you came on as well. i was getting emotional watching it. it was heart rending to see you talk about it.

i don't want to go over that all over again. i was struck by one thing. do you ever get over it or do you just learn to deal with it? what's the reality? >> you never get over that. somebody walked up to my daughter and said, so are you over that now? and her heart broke. no. you know, there's always a place that is set in your heart at the dinner table. there's always a celebration where he's there. it doesn't heal. it just -- god gives you respites, you know, just little breathers, and he's my baby. so kind of -- i always had great empathy for people who lost a child because of my work with children's miracle network and being one of the founders. i have been with people who lost their children and i really thought i felt what they feel, and you do, but it's a really lousy club to belong to. >> it's the worst parental nightmare, isn't it? >> well, you know, god says that you go through the sorrow to know the joys, and i know the great joy of his life, and he went through so much. and i learned a lot from the

things that he went through, too, actually in a lot of ways going through his challenges helped me wake up from my own bad situations and my past marriage and everything else. and he was -- michael, littl archangel. i feel him. i felt him that day. >> you felt his presence on your wedding day. >> yeah. and my mom. i'm telling you, i know my mom. i am her only daughter. i know my mom. >> what was it like to see your sister go through such a crushing tragedy. >> you can only imagine what we went through here at the flamingo. she went -- tried to go on stage a week after that ordeal, and and he was -- michael, littl archangel. i feel him. i felt him that day. >> you felt his presence on your wedding day. >> yeah. and my mom. i'm telling you, i know my mom. i am her only daughter. i know my mom. >> what was it like to see your sister go through such a crushing tragedy. >> you can only imagine what we went through here at the flamingo. she went -- tried to go on stage a week after that ordeal, and

she did. but then after a week of doing it, she just collapsed. >> i got so sick and lungs -- the symbolic or whatever emotional is grief. i couldn't breathe. we were coughing. i couldn't even sing. >> does performing act as a release as people often say it does? is it a way of getting back into your life? >> you got to be careful about that because it can be the wrong kind of medicine if you take too much of it. if you live for this, that's wrong. this is our job. i mean, we love doing what he do, but if you use it to cover up pain, just cover up pain, then you disregard all the things -- all the dirt in your life and keep sweeping it under your carpet and it gets really dirty under there. at some point in time you have to pull back the carpet and clean up the dirt. so it's great that marie was busy doing the show, but -- and she did. she faced the issues and she addressed them and she took care of them. >> marie, for you when you looked up when you first went back out and saw this audience,

they would have all known what had happened to you, probably amazed you were even performing. did you draw a great comfort from the audience reaction? >> everybody will have their reasons for doing things. for me i had postpartum depression, and i think part of me was if i didn't work, i don't know that i ever would again. and also i believe in service when you're in really great pain. if you step outside of your own pain and serve other people, it really helps, and that was my way of serving, making people feel better, and the way i coped with it at that time. >> but it was so interesting, piers, the amount of support she got. not just her family, the band, the audience, everybody at the flamingo. they rallied around marie and it was so cool for us to see the amount of friendships that come out of the woodwork when you're hurting. >> yeah.

>> and i think that really helped. >> that week a lady came through and gave me the best piece of advice. i asked her, i said does it ever get better and she said, no, it won't. and that actually was very comforting to me because -- and i never would have had that advice if i had just gone in my room. i needed to be strong for my children. i needed to show them you have to keep moving forward, and it was really tough. >> we do a meet and greet after every show where quite a few people come back to get autographs and sign the pictures and all that kind of stuff, get to talk to us. and it comes up nightly obviously. and the support and the storyings that people tell us. that's one of the -- >> he was my rock. >> the nicest thing about this gig is that those meet and greets after the show where you can have that one-to-one contact with the fan, with the public, that really have supported us -- >> we have amazing fans. >> you say donnie was your rock. in what way?

>> well, you know, he could tell i was hurting. i think there were times i think that he was hurting even more in some ways when i was feeling strong. so just the fact that i said, i need to work and he said, okay, i'm here for you, whatever you need. and i just -- i really was afraid if i didn't, i would never be able to get back again working and doing things and i'm glad i worked through it. it was really hard, really hard, but it was -- like you said, the fans, the support, it all -- it pulled it through. >> we'll take a short break. when we come back i want to talk to you about the door marked fame that you two were shoved through when you were very young. >> i remember when you asked me this question. are you sure you want to go there? >> would you still want to go through that? >> i think you should ask him that. >> others, piers, piers. look, every day we're using more and more energy.

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♪ it takes two baby >> when i was a young lad about, i don't know, i must have been 7 or 8 years old, this group exploded around the world and particularly in britain. >> the jackson 5, they were am amazing, weren't they. >> the osmonds. >> oh, the osmonds.

>> the osbournes. >> every girl i got my eye on age 9 or 10 didn't want to know because she had donnie bloody osmond on her wall. >> that's my middle name. >> everywhere i went -- ♪ and they called it puppy love >> you do that very well. i had to, every girl i went out with had to sing it. you kind of dominated my early life and ruined it. >> thank you. i meant to do that. >> it was a phenomenon. >> it was a crazy time. >> i remember you arriving at heathrow airport to be met by tens of thousands of screaming people. >> do you remember when the balconies collapsed from the weight -- >> yes, i do. >> i saw that happen. >> can you remember much about that? is it all just a weird -- >> i do, but what's really interesting, piers, i have had obviously many years to reflect upon that.

when i look at those pictures and the footage, it's almost like i'm looking at a different person, it was a different life. i have gone through so many different incarnations. i look back at the andy williams days, the puppy love days, the donnie and marie days, the joseph and the amazing technicolor dream coat days. >> you became one of the most famous people on the planet. the osmonds remain along with the jacksons the most famous show business family in the world, and yet it's taken a heavy toll on the family, on all of you in various ways. if i could -- because you had no choice really. you were thrust through that door at a very young age. if i could take you back to the door marked fame and give you the option not to go through there, to lead a completely normal anonymous life without everything that fame brings, would you take that option? >> if i could have it the way i have it at this very moment, i would walk through that door. because i look at the experiences that i have gone through as a teeny bopper. having that, i look at justin

bieber and my heart breaks through him because i know what he's going to go through. >> what's he going to go through. >> he's going to go through so much heartache. ♪ baby, baby, baby he probably hates it right now as much as i hated puppy love. >> do you still hate puppy love? >> no. >> i have walked through many doors where i have made full circle to where i love puppy love. i sing it here and i have the footage of me singing it at 14 behind me. >> there have been moments in your career when puppy love has been this massive -- >> it's been an albatross. yes, it was a millstone. >> will justin bieber have that? >> he's got it now. he's got it now. that kind of success at that age can really bite you in the shorts as the proverbial shorts. >> what would you say to him? if i was justin bieber, what would you say? >> put the seat belt on, buddy, because it's going to be a bumpy ride and there's going to be

times where people will say you're not talented anymore. never give up on yourself. my wife was the only person on this planet that i could turn to and say, am i going to be able to be a star again? and she said yes, you can do it. despite everybody saying no, it's over with. everybody said it was over with. when i was 20, 201 years old, had just gotten married, you know, put yourself in my wife's shoes. all these fans all across the world that have donnie osmond record burning parties -- >> and i remember girls having donnie osmond wife burning parties. like linda mccartney. >> if anybody could write a book, my wife could. but she never would. >> we talked about marie's life, but how important to you has it been to have the love of a steady wife of 30-odd years. >> 33 years. it was the only thing that kept me sane because, you know, i'm not saying this because -- i'm going to sound ego maniacal, but

point to another teeny bopper star who didn't go through the drugs, the alcohol, the women, and things like that and i'd have to say my wife is the one that got me through it. my faith obviously was a big factor, but my wife went through it with me and she -- she was my rock. she kept me strong, and five kids and three grand kids later -- >> but he's also been there for his wife and that's the great love story that they have is, you know, donnie could have had anything. he really -- he's had everything in the world offered to him, as i have as well, but as a man, you know, this says a lot about my brother and my brothers. they're good men. and they learned that from my father who was an amazing man. but, you know, he's been there for his wife and his kids, too, which is very commendable. >> going to take another short break. when we come back, i want to talk to you about the miracle of the new album after 30 years. >> 30 years we finally decided -- >> back in the studio. >> we can hardly wait to talk about that one.

♪ you got love, you're living

the good life ♪ >> you two have got back in the studio and made an album together. >> after 30 years, piers. can you believe it? >> what finally brought you back to recording? >> i had to wait until she stopped playing with dolls. then we could get serious about recording. >> and my comment would be -- no. >> was it fun? >> i don't know if fun was the right word. when you're putting an album together, it's a work of art. we could slap a bunch of songs on a cd and call it good, but you have to put your producer hat on and artist hat on and it's blik a blank canvas and you start painting. you know what you want it to look like, but until you start painting, until you see the final product, you never know, and we took a lot of time and a lot of effort putting this together. >> is it easy -- >> was it fun? it was fun. >> is it hard or easy to be with your own brother when you're making a record? >> oh, you know, i think initially when -- it was more difficult -- >> i want to hear about this. >> he's so full of it. >> big time, baby. >> the thing that was fun was

the process of picking songs. that was fun. >> that was fun. >> that was fun. >> because -- >> recording was really tough because i was working on that album, doing this show, and my other album. so i turned my closet into my vocal booth. i would sing until like 7:00 in the morning. >> i recorded in my dressing room. >> if i did lead, i would do lead there and then ship it to him. if he did the lead i would do the harmonies. it's not like we really sat and did it together. >> are you pleasantly surprised? >> i have to say i'm pleasantly surprised because donnie and marie is a big target for critics. it's so easy to not like donnie and marie. >> why do you say that? i don't know that that's true. >> let's call it the way it is. it's donnie and marie. come on, to hard core rock and roll and country critics we're easy targets. but -- >> i don't agree with that. >> what do you think? >> i think that people grew up with us, and i think that it's -- like you can see her at the shows for the last --

>> come on. >> why would you care what the rock audience thinks of you? >> to be honest with you i don't care anymore. >> i think you do. >> i think he does, too. >> maybe deep down inside because everybody wants to be accepted. when you go out on stage you want a standing ovation. you don't want to get booed off. >> you never get booed off. >> you want to be accepted. >> i'm realistic about who watches my show and likes it. >> this is -- >> i'm going to he will it you something sammy davis jr. told me. the day you stop caring about your show is the day you should quit. >> i agree with that. >> i care about what i do. when this album was put together, i was painstakingly recording my vocals, selecting the tracks, and i know she did, too, i did more but -- >> help. >> but i care about the product that comes out. when i say donnie and marie is an easy target, come on, piers, to some people they are because they still put me in the puppy love category. when they -- hold on.

>> not really. >> hold on. when they do come out and say the donnie and marie album is great, it means so much to me. >> i can tell. >> it means the world. >> it's not like it doesn't mean the world to me, too. and especially i think where we agree is that we did this album knowing this could probably be our last album together, too. >> i don't know about that. >> and we wanted to make sure every song would have great meaning and a purpose, and there is something unique about us in the sense i think our blend -- >> i'm tell you what is unique about the pair of you. >> what? >> it's what you look like is unique to me. you have no right to look that beautiful or youthful. >> thank you. oh, you're talking to her. >> when you shook my hand earlier it's like i was being crushed by some iron man. >> he's buff. he's in shape. >> i'm going to the gym all the time. >> i want to talk about your guns and your whole thing. >> i like you. >> there's a loaded statement.

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so come on, what is the secret to you two looking so youthful? i need to know. let's start with you donnie because you nearly ripped my arm off earlier. you are ripped. >> i go to the gym all the time. >> every day? >> not every day.

i'm very careful what i eat. i do take supplements because the food nowadays -- >> do you drink alcohol? >> i have never -- actually a couple times, but, no, i don't drink alcohol, never smoked. >> never taken drugs? >> never had a desire to take drugs. >> you are mr. squeaky clean. >> if that's what it takes to live a good life, call me squeaky clean. i used to hate that term. goody-goody. but you know what, it's a compliment to me now because it got me through the hard years. >> when you see the likes of lady gaga and others really pushing it in terms of language and sexuality and all that kind of stuff in their lyrics and so on, do you feel offended? >> first of all, let me just make the statement, i think lady gaga is brilliant. as a marketer, as a writer, as an artist, she is madonna incarnate in my opinion, you know, but i don't agree with a lot of shock elements nowadays that a lot of artists take to

get their face on a cover, to get on the charts. you know, in my opinion it's a cheap way to become popular, but i do think she's a very talented woman. >> you have admitted to having one dose of botox. >> oh, yeah. i tried it. and, you know, the reason why i don't want to do it anymore? because i was smiling like this. it's like who wants that kind of face? >> marie, talk me through this. >> talk me through this. >> dazzlingly sculpted. i don't even know how old you are. if -- >> i'm 29. >> if i met you i would say 40. i would. >> you're so sweet >> i'm actually being realistic. you look like your 40. i know you can't be.

>> how many you continue be? >> how about if we pretend you are. >> i like that. >> we know about the nutrition thing you do but what else do you do to keep in this kind of shape? >> well, i mean, i lost 50 pounds and i think the biggest thing is that when women kind of -- you get to a place in life where you take care of your kids, you take care of your husband, you take care of your parents, you stop taking care of yourself and i think it's important to. >> do you exercise? >> i do, yeah, i do. >> what's the future holding for you? how long are you going to be performing here for starters? >> until the end of this year. they want us longer but we'll see what happens. >> we'll see if he can handle it. >> is there any way you'd rather be performing? >> there's all kinds of opportunities but what's different about now days than the early '70s is that things are apt to change quickly. it can change on a dime. so you don't lock the future too far in advance because there's so many opportunities. especially right now. with this wave we're riding with donnie and marie, we still have -- >> what's your anthem? when you finish up here, the shows, because you're playing tonight, what do you go out on? >> we just changed the show. we have a brand new show. well, i'd say almost 80% is

brand new. you can't take away some of the staples. >> what's the song that -- >> country rock and roll is what we're known for. >> but the ones we can't take out is what do we end the show with. ♪ may tomorrow be a perfect day ♪ >> he has no clue what that is. >> i love that one. >> sing the rest of it. ♪ may tomorrow be a perfect day ♪ sing it marie. i go through this every night. >> did you hear what he said? >> sing the last show. >> i said do you even know this song, i said be honest. >> he said, well, i never watched the tv show. >> piers, we never watch your show either. how do you feel? >> sing me this song. ♪ may tomorrow be a perfect day ♪ ♪ may you find love and laughter along the way ♪ >> get me finish the song. ♪ may god keep you in his tender care ♪ >> do you want to hear the last line? >> let me just make one thing clear.

we never had it in britain, donnie and marie. >> yes, you did. >> we had it but not in a way we used to watch it mainstream. what i really want to hear just for me, i just want to hear one more time, the song -- >> wasn't our song. >> i want a little bit of puppy love. the song that you have loved and hated all your life, now i want a bit of puppy love. >> i'm going to undo my microphone. >> you don't know what you do when you do this. >> what are you doing? ♪ and -- bad lighting. there's my camera. ♪ and they called it puppy love ♪ >> geez. >> i'm very embarrassed. >> you should be. you should be. >> that's what i grew up on. never mind donnie and marie, the tv show. it was always about puppy love for me. donnie, marie, seriously -- >> is this a new side of you we're learning. >> it's a tender side i hide so cleverly.