BuzzFoto – This aging actress who made it big on a popular 80′s family sitcom will be coming back into the limelight if her ex has his way. He was at a bar this weekend, gabbing to sources that he has some ‘very kinky’ video footage of the star from back in the days when the two were married also involving heavy drug use and he’s planning on trying to sell it to the highest bidder. He also plans to write a tell-all book about underage cast members from her show that would get involved in their antics.
Meredith Baxter Birney, Family Ties. (She and her ex had a really bad split way back in the day.)
Best guess. Being as she was just in the limelight for coming out, maybe her ex thinks it’s the perfect time to make some money. What a scuzz!
That was the first one that came to my mind as well. Great guess. I remember how bad her split was, so I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this was about them.
I guess because she came out recently so she’s still fresh in the minds of many people.
huh?
this *is* a good guess. i’m with kelno – the guy is a d-bag. i mean – come *on*. a vid from twenty-five years ago? really? people don’t get to make mistakes (or have “fun”) and then grow and change?
well, apparently not – if they’re the ex.
hmph.
(ferrd now climbs down off his soapbox and remembers all the less-than-admirable things he’s done in his life…)
(but at least he’s not trying to sell ancient sex tapes of his ex.)
(but maybe only cuz he doesn’t have any.)
(dammit.)
Love this!
Me too!
HAHAHA! Thanks for the giggle ferrd69, I needed that!!
Lol@ ferrd… I’ll bet it was a huge pain for the ex to convert Betamax movies (or 8mm?) to DVD!
She fits the timeline but the problem is that her third husband is dead, so you’re back to her second husband, David Birney. They’ve been divorced twenty years or more. He doesn’t appear to be active in TV or movies but may be active in stage work. However they have three kids together and I really can’t see any father doing this to his family.
One of my co-workers used to work with and was close friends with her back when she was married to David. He still wants to kick Birney’s @ss for the beatings she took from him.
Needless to say, if it was him I wouldn’t be surprised.
That said, the first person who jumped into my mind was Phylicia Rashad. Ahmad seems the type who’d pull something like this.
betty white!!!LOL
someone from “punky brewster” ? someone from “cosby show”?
or the mum of “growing pain”?
I’m hoping it’s her, with Kirk Cameron in a drug scandal, hahahahaha.
Joanna Kerns divorced in 1984 but Growing Pains started in 1985. So I don’t see how the ex would have been around to party with the underage cast.
Katie Segal
I’m with you on this one.
Al Bundy’s gonna turn Peg in??? :-O!!! Shocking, just shocking.
christina applegate? im doubtful anyone would be so low to do that to her after she had cancer though, but then again you’d have to be pretty low to do it anyway.
mwc was 90s
mwc started in 1987
Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold?
I think that mostly ran in the 90s, if I remember correctly.
It ran from 1988-1997 so, although it mostly ran in the 1990s it did make her a star in the 1980s. The show did have underage actors and Rosanne divorced her first husband, married and divorced her second husband (Arnold) and married her third husband (subsequently divorced) all while the show was running. So technically she could fit the clues.
Justine Bateman.
Was Suzanne Somers ever married?
Yes, but it was a long,long time ago,and it was a mutual split.
she married alan hamel in the 70′s and they have been married ever since.
Also no underage cast on Three’s Company.
Suzanne Sommers
Jodie Sweetin from “Full House”,and the underage star who would join in could be one of the Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen.
They were 8 not 11 when it ended. Started at 9 months old and the show went for 8 years.
True, but still young. Plus, isn’t Full House more like 90s?
PLUS – Jodie Sweetin would have been underage
PLUS – That’s disgusting! What is wrong with you?
One of the gals from Facts of Life? The ultra pious one…Blair?
To me it depends how you take the words ‘family sitcom’…sitcom about a family or a sitcom that the whole family watched together. Sadly there are no more of those left!!!
Would “Modern Family” or “The Middle” fall under this category?
Loni Anderson
I can see Burt Reynolds doing this to Loni Anderson. She was on I think it called WRKO. He’s nuts!!
WKRP was largely in the 70s and had no underage cast members.
Why would he be holding onto an old tape for all these years??? No, not Burt and Loni, the time is wrong.
WKRP in Cincinnati. And now I have that theme song stuck in my head thankyouverymuch.
I just read that Norman Lear is working on a new script for Loni and Burt (she’s willing to put hard feelings aside for a return to tv and w/Lear). Not them. Plus, there’s no way Burt would have held onto all these years. Also, what LooLoo said.
Sorry rereading the blind maybe WRKO wassn’t a family comedy, oops!
It’s a radio station in Boston, but it’s got most of the same call letters..
Florence Henderson
Judith Light! The clue being “limelight.” I hope not though, I met her and she was really sweet. What a spiteful ex!!
She’s been married since 1985.
Good to know! Glad it’s not her.
Erin Moran
Happy Days was def mostly 70s. It may have run into the 80s but it started in the 70s and I think would be seen az a 70s sitcom. And I’m speaking as someone old enough to have watched it with my family in its original run. Yes, I’m getting old. You kids get off my lawn!
Lisa Bonet…does anyone else get an Angelheart vibe from the pic??
Underaged cast members could be from either Cosby or Different World. Was she married to anyone besides Lenny?
Whoops got the pic from.the next post confused with this one. Nevermind.
This sounds like a Michael Lohan move – what’s with guys these days?
They’re losing power status to the ladies =)
Amen.
How about Brett Butler?
Her sitcom ended with all sorts of rumors about unstable and inappropriate behavior, and I’m sure she has a few bad relationships with exes.
Grace Under Fire was ’90s.
I remember that a couple of kids from that show left because she made really inappropriate remarks to them.
Whatever happened to her?
That’s a good question. She was an alcoholic throughout that entire show, wasn’t she?
Alley Mills from The Wonder Years. I seem to remember hearing something about her and Jason Hervey years ago.
I’m guessing Jodie Sweetin from Full House
Jodie Sweetin for sure. I think she’s the one who worked as a call girl and isn’t sure if her pregnancy is from her bf or a john.
She’s not really aging though… she’s still young-ish.
Okay… just to throw a new one out there
What about Nicole Eggert from Charles in Charge? Her and her husband are seperated & there were lots of rumors floating around back in the day about what went on backstage.
Pamela Anderson
I wouldn’t say she “hit it big” with that show nor that it was “very popular”.
Oops that was supposed to be a response to the Nicole Eggert guess. Drat my tiny iPhone screen!
Mrs. Garrett FTW!!
Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown)? Don’t remember if she was married @ the time or not
I think she was married to Louis Malle, a director, who died a few years ago so it can’t be him.
Murphy Brown wasn’t a family sitcom. Think more like the Cosby Show or something like that. And she’s a widow, not divorced.