Marie osmond is tackling her bucket list and ‘having a blast’

After entertaining audiences for more than six decades, beginning at age 3, it’s no surprise that Marie Osmond, 64, feels at home when she’s performing. “The stage has always been my safe

place,” she says. In recent years, she’s cut back on stage time and has instead been focused on spending time with her husband and family and posting her personal bucket list adventures on

social media. And she can check a professional item off that bucket list now, too: Starting Oct. 27, Osmond guest stars in three episodes of CBS’s _The Bold and the Beautiful._ Why did she

want to act on a soap opera? “Like I’ve [always] said, I'm not the greatest actress in the world, but you don’t get better unless you try.” TELL US ABOUT YOUR SOAP OPERA CHARACTER. WAS

IT A CHALLENGING ROLE? I play this countess — her name is Countess Von Frankfurt — and she’s a snob. I’m so obnoxious, but I try to find the humor in there — so that I know you hate her, but

at some point, you’ve got to laugh, right? … Soaps are interesting. …_ _To me, it’s kind of like television used to be, where it’s appointment television, and you get invested in these

characters. [Soap opera actors] work harder than anybody I know in show business. They are pounding pages. They usually have one take to get it right. I started at 5 in the morning and I

didn’t leave until almost midnight. And that was just for my little character. I’ve done so many things in show business, but not that. Osmond, seen here with ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’

actors Thorsten Kaye and Tracey Bregman, guest stars in three episodes of the long-running CBS soap opera. Howard Wise/jpistudios WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU RECENTLY CHECKED OFF YOUR BUCKET LIST? We

just got back from Iceland and Greenland. My husband and I — we took 25 years apart [Osmond divorced Stephen Craig in 1985 and remarried him in 2011]. Now that there are no children in the

house, it’s just fun. The two of us, we’re having a blast. I went to Israel. I climbed Mount Sinai [in Egypt]. Went on a cruise. I got to see buffalo. I’m just doing all these insane things.

I got my motorcycle, which I’m having fun with. I jumped out of an airplane. On my social [media], it’s bucket list, bucket list, bucket list. And then we stop and see [our] kids, and I do

some shows, and then we go back. WHAT’S NEXT ON YOUR LIST? I want to blow big pieces of glass. It’s something that I have loved since I went to Sweden and my mom and I went to the glass

factories and had some things blown for her — like a vase and some crystal. I designed dolls for 25 years. I sculpted and created them. They sold throughout the world. I won some awards for

them, and to me, blowing glass is that same kind of sculpting, except it’s almost like sculpting water. Fluid. So, that’s something that I really, really want to do.