Saturday, November 17, 2007

Danny Bonaduce

Danny Bonaduce (born Dante Daniel Bonaduce) is a former child star best known for his role in the early 1970s as Danny Partridge on The Partridge Family and his many run-ins with the law.

I. Early Life

Bonaduce was born on August 13, 1959, in Broomall, Pennsylvania into a family connected to the entertainment business. His father, Joseph Bonaduce, was a TV writer/producer for various TV shows such as Mayberry RFD, One Day At A Time, and Good Times.

Bonaduce began his TV acting career in 1969 with small roles on the TV shows The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Mayberry R.F.D., and Bewitched. In 1970 he was cast as little Danny Partridge on the hit TV show The Partridge Family. Danny Partridge was a young boy in a family of musical siblings that toured from town to town in The Partridge Family. Bonaduce was well known for his role and achieved quite a bit of fame during his pre-pubescent years.





Unfortunately, Bonaduce had a bad relationship with his father - Bonaduce claims that his father had nothing but animosity for him from the day he was born, and that the situation grew worse with Danny's pre-pubescent success on The Partridge Family. When Shirley Jones, the actress who played his mother on The Partridge Family, noticed that Bonaduce was coming in with bruises on his arms on Monday mornings, she realized that he was being abused at home, and tried to protect Bonaduce by allowing him to stay with her or with other cast members during the weekends.

In 1973 Bonaduce released a self-titled album. Bonaduce has admitted that his vocals can barely be heard on the album and that most of the singing was provided by Bruce Roberts. The album was apparently so awful that a record store, Rhino Store, paid customers 5 cents to take home Bonaduce's album.

Bonaduce's career hit the skids shortly after The Partridge Family was cancelled in 1974 and he drifted into a life of drug abuse and endured a period of homelessness during his late teens and early twenties.

II. Bonaduce's Life After The Partridge Family

Bonaduce briefly worked as a stable boy for Kenny Rogers after The Partridge Family was cancelled. He drifted aimlessly at this point in his life and eventually developed an addiction for cocaine. In 1985, he was arrested with 50 grams of cocaine in his car. In 1990, he was arrested at a Daytona Beach crack house. He went through rehab in 1991, 2001, and 2005.

Bonaduce claims that at one point he was so addicted to smoking crack that he could no longer wait for the pipe to cool down. He says that he had giant burns on his fingers and lips because he would pick up a red-hot pipe and stick it in his mouth. He also claims that he could hear the searing of flesh burning from the hot crack pipe.

His mother eventually tracked him down in Hollywood Hills and convinced him to move back in with her and get his life back together.

Bonaduce eventually did get his life back together and started a radio DJ/commentary career on WEGX in Philadelphia. He then went to KKFR in Phoenix, Arizona. Bonaduce worked at KKFR until 1991, when he was fired after being charged with assaulting and beating Darius Barney, a transvestite prostitute. Bonaduce later stated that he thought that the prostitute was a girl when he picked him up and let him into his car. When he found out that the prostitute was a man, he ordered the prostitute to leave. When the prostitute refused to leave unless Danny paid him $40, Bonaduce opened the passenger side door of his car and pulled him out of the car. Bonaduce then punched the much larger Barney because he feared that Barney was going to attack him. Although he only received probation, the resulting bad publicity caused KKFR to terminate his employment.

Bonaduce has been a staple on FM-radio over the years and currently co-hosts the morning talk show, The Adam Carolla Show, with Adam Carolla. Bonaduce also co-hosted the morning TV talk show, The Other Half, from 2001-2003.

Bonaduce married real estate agent Setsuko Hattori in 1985; they divorced three years later, in 1988. On November 4, 1990, Bonaduce met his second wife, Gretchen Hillmer, on a blind date. Bonaduce married Hillmer a few hours into their first date. Hillmer put up with Bonaduce's infidelities for many years until April 9, 2007, when she filed a divorce petition, citing irreconcilable differences.

III. Celebrity Boxing

Despite being very short in stature, Bonaduce has participated several celebrity boxing matches for charity. In 1994, Bonaduce participated in a charity boxing match against Donny Osmond. Osmond and Bonaduce were both living in Chicago and worked out at the same gym. They apparently were not friends and Osmond made fun of Bonaduce when he saw Bonaduce looking at himself in the mirror, calling Bonaduce a "poseur." Osmond appeared on a DJ radio show the next day and mentioned the incident. The DJ asked Osmond whether he could kick Bonaduce's ass, and Osmond replied that he could. Bonaduce took offense and eventually a charity boxing match was arranged between Osmond and Bonaduce.

The three-round fight took place at the China Club in Chicago. Bonaduce apparently fought dirty, hitting on the break, stuck his thumb in Osmond's eye, backhanded, and threw elbows at Osmond. Bonaduce bloodied Osmond's nose during the match and won a two-to-one split decision. Osmond was upset with the judges' decision and wanted to go another round. Bonaduce said that Osmond should go fight his sister (Marie Osmond) and offered to fight a bare knuckle round against Osmond. Eventually cooler heads prevailed and both Osmond and Bonaduce walked away from the ring.

Eight years later, in 2002, Bonaduce returned to the ring to fight fellow washed-up celebrity Barry Williams (from the Brady Bunch). Although much shorter and smaller than Williams, Bonaduce pummeled Williams, knocking him down five times before the referee finally called the match in the second round.






IV. Breaking Bonaduce Reality Show

Bonaduce was been the star of the reality show based on his life, Breaking Bonaduce. During the course of the show, Bonaduce revealed his marriage infidelities, previous drug use, and current abuse of steroids.

The show showed the world that Bonaduce has serious emotional problems in his life. He tries to fill the void by having affairs and become a juiced-up gym rat. The show had to have hurt Bonaduce's career, as it portrayed him as a raging psychopath. There was an episode in which Bonaduce was playing with his daughter who asked him why he was wearing bandages on his wrists. Bonaduce was wearing the bandages because he had slashed them after his wife, Gretchen, asked him for a divorce. Bonaduce hurt himself at the end of a crazy night that started with hours of drinking and taking pills, and landed him in the psychiatric ward.

V. Altercation With Johnny Fairplay

On October 2, 2007, Bonaduce was in the audience at the FOX Reality Channel Awards show when he mixed things up with former Survivor contestation Johnny Fairplay. I had never even heard of Johnny Fairplay, but apparently he lied about his grandmother dying when he was on Survivor in an attempt to avoid being voted off, and is universally hated for doing so.

Fairplay was on stage towards the end of the Awards show and being booed by the audience. In an unscripted turn of events, Bonaduce walked up onto the stage from the audience and told Fairplay he was being booed because the audience hated him. Bonaduce then turned around and started walking off of the stage.

Fairplay called Bonaduce back and said something to him and then leapt into Bonaduce's arms, and straddled and humped him, supposedly as a blatantly homosexual joke that was part of Fairplay's shtick.

Bonaduce adjusted his balance and his grip on Fairplay and then threw him over his head, causing Fairplay to land face-first onto the stage floor in a loud thud. Fairplay bled significantly, lost some teeth and suffered a broken toe.


Fairplay pressed charges and police opened a felony battery investigation with Bonaduce as the named suspect. Bonaduce maintained his innocence and stated he was acting in self-defense. The L.A. district attorney's office concluded a few days later that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Bonaduce had committed battery because Fairplay had initiated the contact and Bonaduce had acted in self-defense.

VI. Bonaduce's Baby-Dick

Bonaduce is apparently hung like a gnat and sports a tiny baby-dick. In October 2007, Bonaduce was a guest at the Erotic Ball in San Francisco. Bonaduce dropped his pants during the Ball, showing off his tiny junk. PerezHilton.com has an unedited version of a photo of Bonaduce naked (this link is NSFW).

VII. Conclusion

Bonaduce has been in the public eye for nearly 40 years and has lived one unusual life. For the reasons discussed above, there is no doubt that Danny Bonaduce is one washed-up celebrity!

29 comments:

Anonymous said...

He gives new meaning to the term "ugly red headed step child"
I think him and carrot top ought to have some butt babies together.

Anonymous said...

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous said...

He was also in H.O.T.S. in the late 1970s, I believe. This was a softcore porn film loosely based on Animal House. Not a bad film, really. Some decent stroke scenes which is rare for softcore. Some Playboy Playmates of the era were in it, as well as the ridiculously endowed Lisa London.

Anonymous said...

Him and PC would make a hot, gay couple.

Anonymous said...

Jewv'd has been pretty quiet on the matter. It's not like him to not to comment on a tiny baby cock like Danny's - even if it is ginger and looks a bit smeggy around the rim.

Anonymous said...

I bet he still calls that pathetic little thing his "winky".

Anonymous said...

wow, that is one small 'package' it better grow a bit - or seriously no wonder he has never been able to satisfy anyone.....i mean yes women want money...and would have to imagine something other than his face, but if he cannot even satisfy or a woman couldn't even feel anything - no money is worth that.

Anonymous said...

Jewv'd has been pretty quiet on the matter. It's not like him to not to comment on a tiny baby cock like Danny's

Maybe he keeled over and died from the shock of looking at it. It is strange to see him not add his two cents on the matter.

Anonymous said...

I've slept with Japanese men that are bigger hung than this guy. He is certainly no Carrot Top and does not have even half the 'roided out bod of our favourite redheaded step-child. I would probably only take him if I could get one of my Japanese boys to sword fight with him and force themselves deep in his poorly sculpted buns.

Anonymous said...

That is not the cock of one's dreams...that is the cock of one's nightmares. Eww!

Anonymous said...

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0552042/

Anonymous said...

Hey Kids

I don’t want to spoil the fun you’ve had with making fun of Danny B.’s post-Partridge Family career – the original Chris was always my favorite Partridge anyway, and grown-up Danny sure sounds like one majorly fucked-up dude (with a really scary face) – but there are some fundamental things you need to know about the size of one’s dick. The size of a flaccid (soft) dick is a totally different phenomenon than the size of an erect (hard) dick. Guys whose flaccid dicks hang down, so beautifully displayed with the assistance of gravity, are pretty much lucky, in terms of what our culture deems “acceptable.” But other guys whose flaccid dicks recede almost entirely do not necessarily have small dicks when they are erect. I know because I myself am, as they say, “a grower, not a shower.” When erect, my dick is larger than average – not humongous, but definitely a hefty, decent, biggish size. The law of averages would dictate that if you are a male who is reading this, my erect dick is probably bigger than yours. However, when flaccid, mine is more or less the size of poor Mr. Bonaduce’s. His obvious use of steroids may cause impotence, but they don’t make the size of his penis bigger OR smaller; his testicles (balls), on the other hand, could very well shrink as a result. And think about it – if DB knew that he had an extra small dick, then why would he disrobe in a public setting and willingly suffer the ensuing embarrassment? His mistake was probably not premeditating the shrinkage that occurs when you are completely naked and your feet are in direct contact with a cold floor – the same effect you see when someone emerges (naked) from a swimming pool. In the Perez Hilton picture, his balls look quite healthy (non-shrunken by steroids) and I would guess that his dick probably grows to an above-average size, too. And if he is suffering to any degree from the cold-floor-shrinkage as described above, then he has a lot to be proud of indeed (also notice that the angle of his balls suggest that they are swinging upward from his motion, which could be further contributing to making his dick look “small”). I’m not defending him in any other way, just his dick size. In fact, dicks are my business: I’m the author of The Blowjob Book (www.blowjobbook.com). Trust me, I know from dicks.

Jack Zone

Anonymous said...

Danny is crazy. He may be washed up but VH-1 is paying to see it. I would categorize danny as washed up but paid.

indi said...

all you anonymouses should look at your own appendages.

indi said...

Hi, me again. I can't believe how some of these comments are so unkind and bullying. Size is unimportant. Some of the biggest, fattest willies are the most 'shortlived'. Size, big, small or indifferent, means nothing if someone has warts in nasty places and cheesy feet and a crotch that smells like...ugh! Please don't be so judgemental. Just make sure you sort yourselves out.
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babrock said...

I agree w anonomous. And I disagree w t other anonomous. I may have that backwards tho and as I donot plan on having sex w this man I donot supose it matters that much one way or t other.

Anonymous said...

oh yea well I happen to know Fairplay and I beleive he got a nice piece of change from the little cock Red head !!

Anonymous said...

ha ha

Anonymous said...

It's sad but I believe he likes degrading himself.
I believe that's what his dad left him............Really sad:(
I feel really bad for him, he's so used to abuse he abuses himself as well:(

Anonymous said...

Danny Bonaduce's life is just very sad. It's obvious that his father brutalized him and that his mother was unable to protect him. I hope he gets better.

Realvicious said...

Danny Boner-dookee! heh heh heh

the sneering (homo-phobic) snob said...

Danny Bonaduce is indeed a laughable joke with a tiny chopper but i`ll always have nothing but completely unconditional respect for his rampaging heterosexuality.

Anonymous said...

Bash away people, but in the list of things that Danny has done -- they forgot to mention he was a talk show host for Buena Vista TV (Disney)and is a regular on "World's Greatest" for Spike. I have produced him a number of times -- and for all his faults in his personal life - he is a consumate pro in front of the camera -- and he is stil In FRONT OF THE CAMERA, so to all you nay-sayers -- are YOU on camera and in your third year on a weekly cable TV series?

Anonymous said...

I would love for his facial hair to tickle my choad after some agressive man on man scat play.

Anonymous said...

You have no idea what size a man's penis really is until you see it erect. There are the "show-ers" and the "growers".
I've seen 4" flaccid or even buried penises that grow to 8" erect and double in girth at the same time. By the same token, I've seen average penises 5"-6" that only vary by an inch whether soft or hard. Just watch a few porn videos to see what I mean.

NateM said...

That naked pic... That's why do don't skip leg day guys

Terry McGee said...

Danny's street name is "Micro Dick".

Smitty27 said...

How in the hell does anyone consider Danny Bonaduce a "celebrity"?

Anonymous said...

I never understood why Bonaduce was cast in The Partride Family. What were the producers thinking? He was such an ugly looking kid. He didn't resemble any of the other cast members whatsoever. Who was he supposed to be Shirley Partridge's illigetimate child?