INTERVIEW: Danny Pintauro, "Who's the Boss?" Star!
The Golden Girls Deep Dive Podcast
Golden Girls Deep Dive
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Cheesecakes! We were so happy to grab 80s sitcom star Danny Pintauro, who played the precocious Jonathan Bower on Who's the Boss?, for an interview when he came to town to perform in Stan Zimmerman's play. We talk about the episode of WTB? where Betty White guest starred along with his experiences as a child actor and then being one of the first celebrities to come out as gay publicly. And also Circus of the Stars!!!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Cheesecakes, Patrick here. I am so excited to share my interview with you with the fabulous Danny Pintaro. |
| 0:23.3 | So I got to meet Danny a few weeks ago when he was in town doing the reading of Stan Zimmerman's |
| 0:27.5 | amazing play before I go. I gotta tell you, Cheezies, Stan only introduces me to the very best, |
| 0:34.9 | most fabulous people. So you know Danny from Who's the Boss, where for seven seasons he played Jonathan Bauer. |
| 0:41.3 | You might also remember him from the film's Coojo or 2022s, a country Christmas harmony, and so many other things. |
| 0:48.3 | Danny so kindly agreed to come into the studio for an interview, even though he wasn't the biggest Golden |
| 0:54.5 | Girls Watcher. But that's okay, Cheezies, because we still had so many things to talk about, |
| 0:59.2 | including Betty White's guest appearance on Who's the Boss. His sort of dramatic and truly |
| 1:05.1 | amazing coming out journey, if you don't know that story, you are going to want to hear it. How he |
| 1:10.4 | transitioned from actor to civilian back to actor over the course of a few decades, and so much more. |
| 1:18.4 | So Cheez-Zee's, I hope you love this interview as much as I do. |
| 1:21.1 | And without further ado, let's jump in. |
| 1:39.7 | Music Let's jump in. Hi, Teddy Pistaro. |
| 1:41.7 | I have been a fan of you my whole entire. |
| 1:44.5 | I had a crush on you when I was a little kid. |
| 1:46.3 | I have a crush on you in this moment. |
| 1:48.3 | I'm so happy that you're here. Hello. Hello. How are you? I'm good. I'm glad to be here. This is going to be fun. Yeah. Thanks for coming. Well, first of all, you're in town to do Stanney's play. |
| 1:58.8 | Yes. |
| 1:59.3 | How do you know our Stanley? |
| 2:00.6 | So I did a podcast with, oh gosh, the name's just gone right out of my head. That's okay. Fuck those people. And I did the podcast. And he was co-hosting with the guy who does the podcast. He keeps trying to co-host our podcast. I'm like, Stan, maybe someday, but not yet. He just takes over is the problem. Like it wasn't even a co-host thing. It was just stand. One time I asked him how old he was, he really didn't like that. |
| 2:21.3 | Oh. Maybe someday, but not yet. He just takes over is the problem. Yeah. It wasn't even a co-host thing. It was just Stan. |
| 2:18.7 | One time I asked him how old he was, he really didn't like that. Oh. Like, he looked so young. He's so youthful. Yeah. And, you know, he wrote on the Golden Girl in the 80s. Like, I'm, you know, I was expecting a much older man. Oh, oh, looking wise. Yeah, and I was like, Stan, how old are you? |
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