'My audience is nostalgic — I'll take it': Jason Donovan on life, fame and Cork return

They say you should never meet your idol. So how did Vickie Maye fare, just ahead of Valentine's, when she met her tween obsession Jason Donovan?
'My audience is nostalgic — I'll take it': Jason Donovan on life, fame and Cork return

Jason Donovan: “I could have done movies, a bit more TV, but I decided that I wanted to be a pop star. I look at my contemporaries, you know, the Russells, the Guy Pearces, and there’s always a twinge of ‘What if I’d taken that route?’ but it’s not keeping me awake at night." Pic: Steve Schofield

So, Jason Donovan, teenage icon of the ’80s, how often are your interviewers women of a certain vintage?

And how many of them, halfway through the conversation, admit that they had posters of you strewn across their teenage bedrooms?

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