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Maybe it’s because there will always be a place in our hearts for Charles in Charge, but something about this show is oddly compelling. At 46, ex-manwhore Scott Baio can’t seem to break the mental age of 18, but is now about enter the world of fatherhood? That makes for some great television. Just watch his feeble attempt at holding a baby from last week’s premiere episode. In his defense, this “Daddy-To-Be” class is more like an AA group, but that still doesn’t make up for the fact that he breaks a sweat at the mere site of a baby. Watch it now! | More online videos
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Scott Baio on Saturday tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Renee Sloan. The small ceremony was filmed for a Season 2 episode (the last one, I hope/presume) of VH1's Scott Baio Is 45... and Single.... People also reports that Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough married real-estate broker Leigh Boniello on Saturday in his hometown of Orlando.
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After eight weeks of working with Doc Ali and visiting ex-girlfriends for advice on why their relationships didn't work out, Scott was finally able to answer the question: Why is Scott Baio 45 and still single? As Scott himself put it, "It all stems from the fact that I'm always looking for the next best thing."Tonight that search finally ended.True, it looked like Scott was having a really hard time committing himself to the idea of buying a ring or drafting a prenup, but in the end he realized that Renee is the best thing that ever happened to him. And so, in a quiet moment at his graduation party, Scott pulled Renee aside and told her that he was ready to get married. While this confession wasn't dressed up with fancy fireworks or an elaborate proposal, it did feel genuine and it was an approach that fit in with Scott's personality. Had the moment been anything more glamorous than it was, I think it would have felt staged, and I feel as though the simple route proved to be the mo...
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For those of you who haven't noticed yet, new episodes of Scott Baio Is 45... and Single air at 12:30PM/ET on Sundays. That's why this post is here sooner than usual. Well, that's part of the reason. The other reason is I’m heading to the Jersey shore in a few minutes and I wanted to make sure we covered the latest chapter in Scott's love life before I hit the beach. So, if you haven't seen this episode yet, stop reading now! For those of you who have, let's discuss....It was good to see Nicole Eggert in this episode. Not only did she seem really grounded, but she also seemed to be able to give Scott some really useful advice, most notably, that being with someone too perfect could be boring. Since Scott always seems to be looking for the next best thing, I think that was something he really needed to hear.As for this week's assignment from Doc Ali, well, I was a little surprised that she suggested he try a matchmaking service. Though it did make for an interesting segment and ...
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As a girl whose first boyfriend cheated on her (more than once), I thought I was going to find myself feeling empathetic toward Julie McCullough. But after I watched her stand-up act, I started feeling sorry for her for another reason: Her routine wasn't funny, and by the time she got to the part where she was ridiculing Scott, it was just flat-out uncomfortable. Telling a room full of strangers that you once threw a whole bottle of beer at Scott Baio's head isn't really the kind of stuff that evokes laughter. Though I did find the story about how she met the woman with whom Scott cheated on her quite amusing. The idea of the two of them banding together and sending him an obscene Christmas card did manage to put a smirk on my face. OK, now I'm feeling guilty for not liking Julie's act, but I can say that I liked her on Growing Pains. That much is true, and I did feel bad when she told Scott that she got her first AIDS test because of him. As she put it, "That's how much you cheated...
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Scott Baio was my first. No, I don't mean that I was one of his many conquests. This isn't that kind of confession. Scott Baio was my first TV crush. True, I was probably still too young to even know what a crush was when I first met him as Chachi Arcola on Happy Days, but I did know that there was something special about him that kept me glued to the TV set whenever he was on. Or maybe I was just predestined to like him, since I was named after his on-screen (and off) girlfriend, Erin Moran. Whatever the reason, Scott has always been a favorite of mine and I'm really hoping that this season of Scott Baio Is 45... and Single won't permanently damage my happy thoughts of him. As luck would have it, it sounds like Scott's agent fears the same thing. Too bad they didn't have that conversation a little sooner. At the beginning of the show, we learned that Scott is 45 and that he has a beautiful girlfriend named Renee. They've been together for a year and a half, and Renee is super-anxio...
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Due to poor ratings, Fox has pulled the plug on its Monday night installment of On the Lot. Starting next week, the competition and results will be condensed into one weekly show.... Posh Spice may have to put off U.S. TV stardom. According to People.com, the filming of Victoria Beckham's NBC reality show is in jeopardy because she left Los Angeles a few weeks early in order to be with her husband, soccer player David Beckham, who was recalled to play for the British team... VH1's newest celebreality offering, Scott Baio Is 45... and Single, premieres this summer and features the Happy Days hunk looking for love with the help of his exes and a therapist.... Coming on the heels of Paula Abdul's recent tabloid woes, American Idol's weepiest judge will show fans just how hard it is to be her when Bravo premieres Hey Paula on June 28. — Reporting by Raven Snook
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Question: Hi! I remember in the mid-'70s there was a show with Nancy Walker and a group of women who were either models or hostesses (I think). I remember my mom said that the show was TV at its worst, but my dad always seemed to "suffer" through it. Any idea what this show was?
Answer: Oh, that I do, Emma. And while I don't know the man personally, I'm betting I know why your pop "suffered" through Blansky's Beauties, which debuted on ABC in February 1977. The show, a weird sort of Happy Days spin-off, was about a troupe of Vegas showgirls overseen by the titular Nancy Blansky (Walker), who was a cousin of Happy Days father Howard Cunningham (Tom Bosley). A lousy show about showgirls? Torture for moms but something the average father was perfectly willing to
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I'm not gonna lie to you, folks: This was rough. I'm not sure why ABC decided to go with this episode of Freddie Prinze Jr.'s new sitcom as the series premiere rather than the pilot, but whatever the reason, it certainly put us smack-dab in the middle of things — and not necessarily in that good, we-meant-to-do-that kind of way. Meet our hero: He's a successful head chef at a big city restaurant who's got a horndog best friend (Beverly Hills, 90210's Brian A. Green) for a neighbor and four, count 'em, four lovely ladies as his roommates. Let's see, there's the newly divorced sister and her tween-age daughter (who, I swear, says literally two words the whole half hour), the understands-English-but-speaks-only-Spanish grandmother and the boozy sister-in-law (because drunk grieving widows are hilarious!)… and that's pretty much all we know about them so far. We spent far more time getting acquainted with Freddie's girl du jour, in this case, Gina from the old n
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Prison Break
A few people wrote in to say I missed the funniest joke last week, the way the new attorney's name sounds out loud: "Bob Loblaw." I was saving that for tonight, when we really get to meet Scott Baio's all-business lawyer, but that's already been outdone by this week's pun: Tobias has combined the disciplines of analysis and therapy, making him an "analrapist." As much as I enjoyed the way Chachi frowned and charged Lindsay for every minute she flirted with him, and the way Charlize Theron is playing naive blonde spy Rita, the Bluths are totally one-upping their guest stars. For some reason they've all banded together to help each other, and that's always when things go south. Tobias takes a step toward reclaiming his pre-acting career by trying to help Buster stand up to Lucille. George Sr. gets to insult his kids and ignore his wife via a hired surrogate. They're so willing to "support" each other (albeit with selfish motives) that they throw a party for Buster and
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