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'Who's the Boss?' star Danny Pintauro is driving for Amazon: 'There's no shame'

Nbcwashington · · 519 words · By Rachel Paula Abrahamson; TODAY
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What to know about 'Who's the Boss?' star Danny Pintauro is driving for Amazon: 'There's no shame'

Former child star Danny Pintauro, best known for playing Jonathan Bower on the hit sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” recently revealed that he has been driving for Amazon Flex as he works to navigate a difficult entertainment industry and revive his acting career.

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What happened

Former child star Danny Pintauro, best known for playing Jonathan Bower on the hit sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” recently revealed that he has been driving for Amazon Flex as he works to navigate a difficult entertainment industry and revive his acting career.

Why it matters

“Working hard while ‘not working,’” Pintauro, 50, wrote on Instagram.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Pintauro, who appeared on all eight seasons of the beloved ABC sitcom alongside Tony Danza, Judith Light and Alyssa Milano”
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Wikipedia confirms 'Who's the Boss?' aired for eight seasons on ABC, and NBC reports confirm Pintauro appeared in all eight seasons alongside the mentioned cast members.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 8th Youth in Film Awards ceremony (now known as the Young Artist Awards), presented by the Youth in Film Association, honored outstanding youth performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Youth_in_Film_Awards
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Martin Paul Cohan (July 4, 1932 – May 19, 2010), credited as Marty Cohan, was an American television producer and screenwriter. He co-created the sitcom Who's the Boss?, which aired on the American Br…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom television series created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, that aired on ABC from September 20, 1984, to April 25, 1992, with a total of 196 half-hour episodes s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_the_Boss?
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Claim 2: “Danny Pintauro... [is] openly gay, living with HIV”
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Multiple sources confirm Pintauro came out as gay in 1997 and revealed he is HIV-positive, having lived with the virus since 2003.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alyssa Milano and Danny Pintauro are seen here in an undated file photo during an episode from "Who's the Boss."The 39-year-old actor, who came out as gay in 1997, told Oprah that he's been living wit…
https://abcnews.com/Entertainment/whos-boss-star-danny-pinta…
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web search NEUTRAL — Everyone remembers the young, blond-haired Pintauro as Jonathan on the family sitcom "Who's the Boss?" For eight years, Pintauro played the son of a driven single mother, winning over audiences with h…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/danny-pintauro-hiv-positive_n…
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web search NEUTRAL — He Believes "HIV Is The New Closet". Pintauro said he wants to continue de-stigmatizing HIV and AIDS, which means starting an open dialogue. He has had the virus for more than 10 years and he's happil…
https://www.bustle.com/articles/113354-whos-the-boss-star-da…
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Claim 3: “Former child star Danny Pintauro, best known for playing Jonathan Bower on the hit sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” recently revealed that he has been driving for Amazon Flex”
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Multiple independent sources (NBC and another news report via web search) confirm that Danny Pintauro has been driving for Amazon Flex.
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web search NEUTRAL — Danny Pintauro as a child star on "Who's the Boss." Though posting about the job felt vulnerable, Pintauro says he never felt ashamed. “The business has changed so dramatically,” he says.For Pintauro,…
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/…
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web search NEUTRAL — Star Danny Pintauro Is Driving for Amazon: 'There's No Shame'.Actor Danny Pintauro Reveals He’s Delivering Packages for Amazon. 6 days ago. By Tommy Pisani.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Daniel John Pintauro is an American actor and film producer.Pintauro first appeared on the television soap opera As the World Turns as the original Paul Ryan. After this, he played Tad in the film Cuj…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Pintauro
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Claim 4: “Pintauro, 50”
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Wikipedia confirms his birth date as January 6, 1976, which makes him 48 or 49 depending on the current date, but multiple news sources (NY Post and others) explicitly refer to him as 50.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniel John Pintauro (born January 6, 1976) is an American actor and film producer. He starred in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and the 1983 horror film Cujo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Pintauro
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Highway to Heaven is an American television drama series which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1989.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.
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Claim 5: “Los Angeles, he says and Film LA reported, had roughly 18,560 shoot days in 2021; by 2024, that number had fallen to just 7,716.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions and general information about Los Angeles, but contains no data regarding Film LA shoot days for 2021 or 2024.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Los Angeles (LA) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3.88 million residents within t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Los Angeles, California, experienced a series of riots and civil disturbances during April and May of 1992. Civil unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four off…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to a rumored attack on the continental United States by Imperial Japan and the subseq…
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Claim 6: “he has spent recent years juggling multiple jobs... including teaching, running his acting coaching business, “The Resonant Actor,” and building decorative book nooks.”
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NBC reports that he runs an acting coaching business called 'The Resonant Actor', and a separate web search result introduces 'The Resonant Actor' as his coaching studio.
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web search NEUTRAL — Daniel John Pintauro is an American actor and film producer. He starred in the sitcom Who's the Boss? and the 1983 horror film Cujo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Pintauro
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web search NEUTRAL — “The business has changed so dramatically,” he says.Instead, he says he has spent recent years juggling multiple jobs while trying to rebuild his acting career, including teaching, running his acting …
https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/…
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web search NEUTRAL — It’s an acting coaching studio called The Resonant Actor, based on the idea that actors shouldn’t try to perform emotion — they should learn to think as the character.
https://www.tiktok.com/@dannypintauro/video/7616124592268021…
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