A sitcom star went from the glitz and glamor of acting and Hollywood to working as an Amazon delivery driver. Who's the Boss alum Danny Pintauro needs the money like the rest of us.
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Those reruns for the show shockingly don't pay the builds. So the sitcom star, who played Jonathan Bower, has had to pick up a second career as a delivery driver.
"There has always been this fascination of actors working regular jobs. And sort of people reading into that. And a lot of times it's sort of looked at as a downfall. But I think we moved away from that," he told Fox News last week.
"In this economy and this time, we all gotta do multiple jobs, we all gotta work in any way we can to make sure that we provide for ourselves and our families," Pintauro added. The actor doesn't make much from residuals for the sitcom.
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"Pretty much everyone misunderstands what residuals mean," he said. "It's crazy to me. People always assume that if they recognize you, you must be financially set for your life, and that's just not how it works."
It's thanks to the time that he grew up as well. In the '80s, contracts worked very different than they do now.
"The thing that people really don't understand is that when a network or Amazon Prime [Video], let's say, purchases the series, I get some money from the purchase, but I get less money every time it gets purchased," Pintauro continued.
"So Season 1, for instance, has been purchased so many times ... that I'm getting five to six cents per episode, and then they can air it as many times as they want and I don't get paid anymore."
As far as his salary from being a child star on the sitcom, he spent most of that on tuition to Stanford University to get a drama degree, and then on bills in the years after.
"So there isn't a pile of money sitting around these days," he concluded.
