Danny Pintauro, who played Jonathan Bower for all eight seasons of the sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” from 1984 to 1992, is clarifying why he recently revealed that he works part-time as an Amazon delivery driver. In a new interview on the Pod Meets World podcast, the 50-year-old actor said the Amazon job is only one of five casual jobs he is doing right now to cover his bills.
“I didn’t even think about how people would react, because everyone knows I work,” he said. “This is one of five different odd jobs I do right now. We live from odd jobs. Acting is just another one of them.” Pintauro said a two-hour delivery shift pays him between $80 and $100, and stressed that he is not embarrassed by it. “We need to do what we need to do to survive. We all do it. I’m no different from you. I’ve never been different from you.”
He also pushed back on the assumption that he is living off rerun royalties from the series. “I don’t make money from royalties,” he said. In a separate interview with People, he said the public tends to overestimate what 1980s and 1990s sitcom stars receive, adding that he invested much of his earnings, but also used some of the money to pay for his Stanford studies and support himself in his early 20s. “It’s not like there is some endless amount waiting for me,” he said.
Pintauro said this is not the first time outside work has drawn attention. After “Who’s the Boss?” ended, he spent one summer working at a Gap store, and someone secretly photographed him folding clothes before posting it with a headline suggesting he had lost all his money. When he first posted about the Amazon work on Instagram in April, he wrote: “There is no shame in continuing to be in motion. Working hard even when you’re ‘not working.’” He added that the entertainment industry is in a particularly slow period and that he is doing what many people do, taking available work while building the career he really wants. Pintauro was also seriously injured in an electric scooter crash about two years ago, when he hit a pole, needed emergency surgery and later recovered gradually.
