Good guy Jimmy turns bad boy Billy
I rang Jimmy on his mobile as the drama was unfolding and snow blowing around as the Devon Air Ambulance descended.
Jimmy was genuinely concerned for what was going to happen for the man.
Then, after a scheduling clash, I was all ready to do the interview but managed to crash my car in an accident.
Now I'm not saying he's unlucky or anything, but it seems not everything he touches turns to gold.
"I think we should postpone for one more time," he joked.
"It's been a chain of unfortunate events. I think that I'm some bad omen for you."
Bad omen for me, good omen for the hordes of adoring Osmond fans and the children on the receiving ends of the billions of pounds he has helped raise for charity.
Jimmy began in the profession at the age of three. He had a hit record at five when he scored the first gold record in the Osmond family with My Little Darling, recorded in Japanese, and went on to have the biggest-selling single in the family with Long Haired Lover From Liverpool.
As part of the Osmond-founded Children's Miracle Network, the organisation helps 17million children a year and has raised in excess of £4billion.
In fact, his parent's foresight in setting up the fund helped save Jimmy's own daughter.
"Nobody cares what it costs or where you have to go when it comes to the health of your children," he said.
"In my case, my daughter had a seizure. At that moment I would have given up anything in my own life to protect hers.
"It was so amazing for me. When the emergency ambulance came the very equipment they were using to sustain my little daughter was donated by our foundation.
"I looked at the little balloon logo on that piece of gear and thought: 'Wow, thanks mum for having the foresight to be involved'.
"They treat 17million children a year. It's just wild.
"Obviously it's not just us (The Osmonds). It started with my mum and is now a network of wonderful people."
He added: "I suppose as Osmonds we are probably pretty well suited to finding out what families are all about.
"It started because my two older brothers were born deaf and my mum really wanted to do something to help.
"It just evolved into a network of 171 hospitals and helping and treating all children and all diseases.
"There's a place for an organisation like ours.
"We launched in UK a few weeks ago and it has already raised more than £1million just in the areas that we are in.
"We haven't even gotten' started yet.
"It's so good to be involved in an organisation where you can see the results.
"The money stays in the area and really benefits the children of that area.
"There are no overheads. That's why it has been successful."
But it's not all 'Mr Nice Guy'.
Actually it is, he's a devoted Mormon, doesn't drink or smoke and tries to practice what he preaches.
"I'm pretty dispensable in the big scheme of Him, I know that" he laughed.
"It's incumbent on all of us to become involved in good work. It's so easy to get involved in good things.
"What really blew my mind was when my mum and dad passed away. To see the impact of their lives made me want to strive to be the best person I could be.
"They were so humble and so quiet about what they did to help people.
"I was just blown away that I was lucky enough to have parents like that.
"I wish everyone had the parents I had. I sure people do. I'm just saying that it was especially important for me. I think that example is the best teacher."
Jimmy is about to appear as manipulative money seeking lawyer Billy Flynn in sexy and occasionally risqueé musical Chicago.
"I'm embarrassed to say there's more to me being a real-life Billy, then there's not," he said.
"I look after the business side for the family and for other artists, and I'm used to dealing with issues.
"A lot of people don't recognise what his character really is.
"Even the way Richard Gere plays the role. He always has a smile in his eyes.
"The character manipulates people a bit. He is trying to bring out the best of the situation but he is out to make money from it, being a lawyer.
"It's fun. It has been fun to do something that's a little bit more involved and pushes me a but, plus Chicago is 'the' world famous musical. Who hasn't heard of the songs that have come out of that show?"
He added: "Nothing in my character that I play has anything that is in contrary to who I am."
Jimmy is speaking to me while being driven to rehearsals for the production.
He is trying to master Chicago throughout the day, then appearing on stage in the evening in a much-praised production of Grease.
"You rehearse all day long and then I do Grease," he said.
"It's the double deal but if I didn't work this hard then I'd get in trouble," he laughed.
"I spend more time in your British climate then I do in lovely Utah.
"I am a psycho. I was born that way. It's one of those crazy things.
"It's like that quote, I'd rather be a fire ball that goes out burning than one that just sits there as a planet. I want to go out in a blaze of glory.
"I'm now 45 and have experienced so many different things. I am always looking for the new challenge.
"This is one part of my life that I've always wanted to experience."
As the youngest member of the world-renowned Osmond family, Jimmy received the first of many accolades at the age of five when he was awarded a gold record for a song he recorded in Japanese, My Little Darling.
That same year, he was named Japan's male vocalist of the year.
As a solo artist, Jimmy has accumulated six gold records, one platinum record, and two gold albums.
In addition, Jimmy and his siblings have sold more than 100 million records and share 51 gold and platinum recordings along with numerous other prestigious awards and honours, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Before the age of 15, Jimmy had developed and supervised most of the Osmonds' merchandising business.
Soon after, he launched a successful advertising agency that handled production services and campaigns for larger corporations, such as Yamaha and Coca-Cola, as well as an elite portfolio of other high-profile clients.
Also, during this same time, he starred in his first motion picture entitled The Great Brain and went on to star in two award-winning episodes of the TV show Fame and starred in his own show to sell-out crowds in Madison Square Garden.
"The truth is we, as a family, are driven," he said. "We grew up in the old Hollywood way where you had to fight to be on television every week and you had to reinvent yourself to keep on coming back or else they would just dismiss you.
"This was back in the day of the old Andy Williams shows. It is funny but it becomes infectious.
"It's always fun. It's work, but it's really not."
Jimmy said his appearance in the show is fulfilling and ambition to star in musical theatre.
"My only plan is to fill my life with as many fun things as possible, while at the same time making sure there are things that don't take time away from my kids," he said.
"This tour does a little bit, but, in my mind, I've outweighed it with something that is right for the moment that they can be proud of.
"They are part of it too. I get to rehearse my lines with my eldest daughter.
"I did pantomime for the first time in the beginning of the year and all my kids helped act out my lines."
Jimmy said the relationship he has with his children and family is so important to him.
"Family is everything. I mean, what else is there?" he said.
"We begin our lives as a family and we end them as a family. And in the middle we all tend to drift.
"We (The Osmonds) thought that we could all kind of do it on our own, and be tough and cool. You know what I mean?
"And then all the friends go away, when you have real trouble, the only people left are family.
"In our own personal religious belief system, as many other religions believe, what we do on this earth with each other is important. We are all one family.
"You have to seize the moment and take care of each other."
Jimmy appears in Chicago at the Princess Theatre from March 24 to 28.
There's a big press contingency heading down and I'm meant to be reviewing for the Herald Express.
Despite his genuinely caring temperament and optimistic outlook, based on the circumstances of our other planned meetings, I'm investing in some bubble wrap for protection.
"Now do me a favour," he said.
"Wear a helmet anywhere you go now as something really terrible is going to happen."
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