“Brady Bunch” star Mike Lookinland says he went ‘off the rails’ after the present ended

Mike Lookinland wanted a break after enjoying youngest brother Bobby on 5 seasons of the squeaky clear household sitcom The Brady Bunch. And he took it.

"I lived my childhood in my 20s, as a result of I couldn't once I was a baby," Lookinland stated Monday on The Actual Brady Bros podcast. "And in my 20s, I had a automobile and cash and freedom. I used to be absolutely off the rails."

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The actor was all of eight when the sitcom premiered on ABC in 1969. When it ended 5 seasons and 5 years later, he was simply starting his teenage years.

"I'm simply grateful that not each man, girl, and baby had a high-def digicam of their pocket once I was 25, like they do now," Lookinland stated, "as a result of it might have ruined my life."

Christopher Knight, who portrayed center brother Peter, stated that their TV dad and mom — actors Robert Reed, who performed Mike, and Florence Henderson, the actress behind Carol — have been a deterrent to the forged in behaving badly.

'We didn't wanna disappoint Florence and Bob," he stated. "I imply, that was the start of it. It's like there's sure folks that you just simply don't wanna disappoint. I feel that was stronger with me with these two than it was my very own dad and mom."

And but a minimum of some dangerous conduct has come to mild within the greater than 50 years for the reason that first incarnation of the Bradys went off the air. For example, actress Maureen McCormick, who performed elder sister Marcia, infamously wrote about scuffling with drug dependancy and an consuming dysfunction within the years after the present.

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Lookinland and lots of of his costars have been a part of the present's many reunion tasks, together with the psychedelic Brady Bunch Selection Hour (1976-1977) and The Bradys collection within the '90s. Different appearances, corresponding to when he, Knight, and Barry Williams, who performed eldest brother Greg, have been on The Masked Singer in 2022, have been uncommon.

Lookinland married Kelly Wermuth in 1987, and the couple shares two kids. He struggled with alcoholism, however stated in 2013 that he had gotten sober.

He now leads a small enterprise that makes ornamental counter tops, fireplaces, benches, and different concrete objects.

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