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🗓️ 11 January 2026
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Police have charged actor and director Timothy Busfield with two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Police say the abuse happened on the set of “The Cleaning Lady” when the boys were just 7 and 8 years old. Busfield is married to actress Melissa Gilbert who has recently spoken out about child sex abuse on sets. Busfield is known for his roles in “Thirtysomething” and “The West Wing” and has suggested the allegations are revenge for the boys being replaced on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.7 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.8 | It is Sunday, January 11th, and a director and Emmy Award-winning actor is facing charges of child sex abuse, accused by two child actors who once worked for him. |
| 0:32.4 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Roves. This is one of those cases and fair to say the actor here is a name |
| 0:40.9 | that's not immediately familiar, but you see the face and you go, oh, him. Yes, exactly. It's one of those |
| 0:46.3 | cases. Yes, his name is Timothy Busfield. That would not have rung any bells for me. For a lot of |
| 0:52.1 | you, it may have. But when you see his face, you'll say, oh, |
| 0:55.9 | that guy, that guy who starred in 30-something, that guy who starred in West Wing, that guy who won an |
| 1:02.4 | Emmy and has 750 professional credits to his name. And also, you had to remind me also who he's |
| 1:09.9 | married to. Yes. |
| 1:11.1 | That didn't, I didn't register me at all. |
| 1:13.1 | I had forgotten that this had happened. |
| 1:15.2 | It seemed like a very happy third marriage for both of them, and maybe it still is. |
| 1:19.4 | But he is married to Melissa Gilbert, aka Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie. |
| 1:25.4 | She is and was probably one of my childhood |
| 1:30.3 | just obsessions. I love Melissa Gilbert. She was on GMA3 with us, a lovely woman and actually |
| 1:37.8 | has recently spoken out against child sexual abusers. So this is a very disturbing story. Now, is it fair to say that even if you |
| 1:47.9 | didn't know his name, when you hear her name, did you know immediately who she was married to? |
| 1:53.2 | Not necessarily, no, because this is a third marriage for both. So this is something, this is love |
| 1:57.7 | they found later in life. They've been together, I believe, for about 10 years now. And I went back and there were a lot of articles actually in the last few years of |
| 2:06.0 | their love story, how they found love again, how third times a charm. So, no, I didn't necessarily |
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