Madame’s little boy became an Amazon delivery boy to make ends meet

Danny Pintauro, little Jonathan from the cult 1980s sitcom, now has five jobs and claims to receive almost nothing from reruns of the series.

For a whole generation, he will remain the young Jonathan Bower, Angela’s son in the cult sitcom Madame is Served. However, at 50, Danny Pintauro today leads a very different life from the one we imagine for a former television star.

The actor recently created a surprise by posting a photo of himself in an Amazon delivery uniform on Instagram. Faced with the reaction of Internet users, surprised to see a former sitcom hero distributing packages, he wanted to put things into perspective during the Pod Meets World podcast.

“It’s one of five jobs I currently have,” he explained, adding that his acting career is not regular enough to allow him to make a living from it.

This is not the first time that he has been confronted with this type of reaction. “Towards the end of the series, I just wanted to have a summer job to have fun. I worked at Gap and someone came and secretly took a photo of me folding clothes before writing the title: ‘Danny Pintauro’s downfall, he’s already lost all his money!'” he recalls.

However, the actor was only eight years old when he started in Madame estservie, broadcast between 1984 and 1992. And as the series was born well before the arrival of DVDs and streaming, the contracts at the time provided for almost no income linked to these new exploitations. He explains:

“People wildly overestimate what the residual rights of a sitcom from the 1980s and 1990s represent!”

Danny Pintauro claims to earn more from his Amazon deliveries than from reruns of the series: “It’s surprisingly well paid. On a two to three hour service, I earn between 80 and 100 dollars.”

The former child star especially wants to point out that there is no shame in doing more odd jobs:

“We do what we have to do to survive. We have to keep moving forward. We’re all in this together. I’m no different than you. I don’t make money from reruns.”