Who is Jason Donovan and is the Neighbours star married?
JASON Donovan became a household name amongst us Brits when he shot to fame in the 80s in Aussie soap Neighbours.
The talented star has since remained in the spotlight and has enjoyed an incredible career as a TV star and singer.
Who is Jason Donovan?
Born on June 1, 1968 in Victoria, Australia, Jason Donovan is an actor, TV personality and singer.
He shot to fame in 1986 when he played hunky Scott Robinson in Neighbours, before leaving in 1988 to start a music career.
He has sold over three 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 - and is best known for being the lead in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the early 1990s - a show he starred in again in 2019.
What TV shows has Jason Donovan appeared in?
Jason enjoyed a successful stint on I'm a Celebrity in 2006 where he finished in third place, and Matt Willis won the show.
In 2011, he was partnered with Kristina Rihanoff on Strictly Come Dancing, and again he placed third.
Jason then took on the challenge of Dancing On Ice in 2021.
However, he had to pull out of the competition in week six due to a back injury.
Jason's other TV work includes Children In Need Rocks The 80s, Who Do You Think You Are?, and Ready, Steady, Cook.
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What are Jason's biggest songs?
During Jason's pop career in the 80s and 90s, he scored several No. 1 singles.
The singer's biggest songs include:
- 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
When did Jason date Kylie Minogue?
Jason famously dated his co-star and singing partner Kylie Minogue in the 80s.
The love affair began in 1986 when they started playing onscreen sweethearts Scott and Charlene in Neighbours.
Kylie and Jason went on to record Especially For You, which was Christmas No. 1 in 1988.
The couple 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 the late 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.
"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."
The pair then reunited on screen in Neighbours in 2022.
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.
Jason has credited his wife for "saving him" as he struggled with cocaine addiction in the 1990s.
The couple's daughter Jemma has followed in his footsteps, and star's in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks.