If you’re the parent of a budding child star, who do you call to learn how not to screw up your kid? Someone whose parents pulled a doozy on him. Enter Danny Bonaduce, host of I Know My Kid's a Star (Thursdays at 10 pm/ET), VH1’s new reality competition featuring 10 parent-child pairs fighting for $50,000, a management contract and their ticket to stardom. We caught up with Bonaduce for the inside scoop. TVGuide.com: You once said, "Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks." Why host a show that helps usher kids into that field?Danny Bonaduce: Being an ex-child star is not a given. It’s not an automatic that you go from teen star to rehab. Just because Todd Bridges and I are idiots does not condemn an entire industry.TVGuide.com: As host and
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Where would be without parents that are willing to whore their kids out all over Hollywood? In a world where a show like I Know My Kid’s a Star never existed. But alas, these stage parents do exist and a handful were willing to compete in VH1’s new reality series hosted by the most whacked child star of them all—Danny Bonaduce! Watch it now! | More online videos
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Bonaduce Helps Out Amy WinehouseYes, we realize Christmas is over, but this video still deserves to be viewed well through the New Year. After all, it’s not everyday we stumble across an animated, shirtless Danny Bonaduce in a Santa hat providing words of wisdom to the hot mess that is Amy Winehouse. Oh, we’re not joking...see for yourself.More online videos
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My eyes! They're burning at the thought! Danny Bonaduce has posed for Penthouse, TMZ reports.... On Thursday at Germany's Bambi Awards — Bambi? Seriously? — Tom Cruise will be given a "courage" prize for the way he makes risky business of choosing films. Yeah, I thought he was out on a limb with Cocktail, too.... O.J Simpson and his two (alleged) partners in crime have pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges stemming from their (alleged) attempt to retrieve his sports crap at gunpoint.... At the History Makers' Gotham conference in January, Walter Cronkite will receive the group's first lifetime achievement award.... Thanks to Josh Groban's Noel, for the first time in 13 years, a Christmas (cheese) platter holds the No. 1 spot on the album sales chart. — Ben Katner
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In a rather sad bid to reset that 15-minute fame clock, Survivor alum Jonny Fairplay has filed suit against Danny Bonaduce. Fairplay is claiming battery and emotional distress as a result of the recent incident in which Bonaduce manhandled Fairplay at the Fox Reality Awards. (Find video here.) Attorneys for Fox Reality Channel (whose awards-show producers are also named in the suit) declined to comment for the AP.
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